GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 268. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
ADJUTANT GENERAl/S OFFICE, 
Washington, October 10, 1864. 
Hereafter, when discharged soldiers are again enlisted, the recruit- 
ing officer will enter the fact of such re-enlistment, with the date and 
place at which it was made, upon the certificate of discharge from 
his former enlistment, which the soldier ought to have in his pos- 
session. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.