GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 87. 
WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, May 9, 1865. 
Concerning Engineer property and labor on Field-works. 
Army and Department Commanders will at once cause to be collected 
and stored, at convenient depots, all tools, siege material, bridge equi- 
page, and other engineer property not absolutely needed for immediate 
service with troops; and have inventories of property so collected 
forwarded to the Chief Engineer of the Army, with recommendation for 
its disposal. The latter will give the necessary instructions. 
All labor on construction and repairs of field-works should now be 
done by troops ; hired labor will not, therefore, be so employed, unless 
specially authorized from these Headquarters or the Engineer Depart- 
ment ; and no further purchases of engineer material for field-works 
will be made without similar authority, except iu cases of urgent 
necessity. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.