GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 2. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, January 2, 1864 
The percentage of men allowed to he absent at one time under the 
authority given in General Orders, No. 391, of 1863, to grant furloughs 
to enlisted men in hospitals, is changed from five to twenty per cent. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.