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Photographer: Anna Inbody
Taken: August 7, 2011
Caption: General Orders No. 80
Additional Description: General Orders No. 80 War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, September 1, 1875. I. Information having been received of the desecration of soldiers' graves by picnic parties in a National Cemetery, and by vending refreshments therein, it is hereby ordered that hereafter no such practice shall be allowed in any National Cemetery, nor any adjoining ground within the control of the United States. II. Visitors will not be allowed in the National Cemeteries before sunrise or after sunset. No refreshments will be taken into these Cemeteries. III. In National Cemeteries where driving is permitted, the speed must be confined to a walk, if it is found difficult to enforce this rule at any Cemetery the gates will be closed over the carriage way and all driving prohibited. IV. These orders will be conspicuously posted at the main entrance of each National Cemetery, and will be rigidly enforced by the Superintendents. By order of Secretary of War: E.D. Townsend, Adjutant General.
Submitted: August 10, 2011, by Anna Inbody of Columbia, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p167237
File Size: 0.670 Megabytes

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