GENERAL ORDERS, 
NO. 109. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's office, 
Washington, June 6, 1865. 
Order for the discharge of certain Prisoners of War. 
The prisoners of war at the several Depots in the North will be 
discharged under the following regulations and restrictions: 
1.. All enlisted men of the rebel army, and petty officers and seamen 
of the rebel navy, will be discharged upon taking the oath of allegiance. 
11.. 0.ficers of the rebel army not above the grade of captain, and of 
the rebel navy not above the grade of lieutenant, except such as have 
graduated at the U. S. Military or Naval Academies, and such as held 
a commission in either the U. S. Army or Navy at the beginning of the 
rebellion, may be discharged upon taking the oath of allegiance. 
111.. When the discharges hereby ordered are completed, regulations 
will be issued in respect to the discharge of officers having higher rank 
than captain in the army or lieutenant in the navy. 
IV. The several Commanders of Prison Stations will discharge each 
day as many of the prisoners hereby authorized to be discharged as 
proper rolls can be prepared for, beginning with those who have been 
longest in prison and from the most remote points of the country; 
and certified rolls will be forwarded daily to the Commissary General 
of Prisoners of those so discharged. The oath of allegiance only will 
be administered, but notice wall be given that all who desire will be 
permitted to take the oath of amnesty after their release, in accordance 
with the regulations of the Department of State respecting the amnesty. 
V. Quartermaster's Department will furnish transportation to 
all released prisoners, to the nearest accessible point to their homes, 
by rail or by steamboat. 
By order of the President of the United States: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.