GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 104. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, August 13, 1862. 
The following orders are published for the information and guidance 
of all concerned: 
1.. War Department, 
Washington City, D. C., August 8, 1862. 
By direction of the President of the United States, it is hereby 
ordered that, until further order, no citizen liable to he drafted into 
the militia shall be allowed to go to a foreign country. And all 
marshals, deputy marshals, and military officers of the United States 
are directed, and all police authorities, especially at the ports of the 
United States on the seaboard and on the frontier, are requested, to 
see that this order is faithfully carried into effect. And they are 
hereby authorized and directed to arrest and detain any person or 
persons about to depart from the United States in violation of this 
order, and report to Major L. C. Turner, Judge Advocate, at Wash- 
ington City, for further instructions respecting the person or persons 
so arrested or detained. 
2. Any person liable to draft who shall absent himself from his 
county or State before such draft is made will be arrested by any 
provost marshal or other United States or State officer wherever he 
may be found within the jurisdiction of the United States, and be 
conveyed to the nearest military post or depot and placed on military 
duty for the term of the draft; and the expenses of his own arrest 
and conveyance to such post or depot, and also the sum of five dollars 
as a reward to the officer who shall make such arrest, shall be deducted 
from his pay. 
3. The writ of habeas corpus is hereby suspended in respect to all 
persons so arrested and detained, and in respect to all persons arrested 
for disloyal practices. 
EDWIN M. STANTON, 
Secretary of War. 
11.. War Department, 
Washington City, D. C., August 11, 1862. 
The temporary restrictions upon travelling, deemed necessary to 
prevent evasions of liability to be drafted into the militia, were not 
intended to apply to couriers with despatches to and from the legations 2 
of friendly powers in the United States. All authorities, civil and 
military, are consequently required to allow such couriers to pass 
freely, without let or molestation. 
EDWIN M. STANTON, 
Secretary of War. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General