Summary:
These Union General Orders issued by the Department of the Susquehanna at Chambersburg in October, 1864, ask that flags on all Department buildings be flown at half mast in honor of the death of Major General David B. Birney.

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Chambersburg, Pa.,

October 19, 1864.

In honor of the distinguished services of the late Maj. Gen. David B. Birney, U. S. Volunteers, who died at his home in Philadelphia, on the 18th instant, of disease contracted in the service, it is directed that from meridian until sunset on the 21st instant the national flag be displayed at half mast at the several military posts in this department, and during the same time that half-hour guns be fired at Philadelphia and at the headquarters of the department.

By command of Maj.-Gen. Couch:

JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 43, Serial No. 91, Pages 420, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.