Head-quarters Military District of Washington,
Washington, D. C., January 22, 1863.
Lieutenant F. L. Hitchcock, 132d P. V., with servant, has permission to proceed to Falmouth, Va., for the purpose of rejoining his regiment, and to take the following articles for officers and men: (1) one drum, (3) three express packages, carpet sack containing liquors, (1) one box of provisions, (1) one box of clothing. Quartermaster please furnish transportation.
By Command of Brigadier-General Martindale, Military Governor of Washington.
John P. Sherburne,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
No. 247.
Assistant-Quartermaster's Office, Sixth Street Wharf,
Washington, D. C., January 23, 1863.
Pass on government boat to Aquia Creek, three boxes and one drum, liquors and sutlers' stores strictly excluded.
For Adjutant F. L. Hitchcock, 132 Pa. Vols.
J. M. Robinson,
Captain and A. Q. M.
The word liquors above is erased with a pen. It is difficult at this day to realize that Washington was surrounded with a cordon of sentries. All places of entrance and exit were under the strictest military surveillance. General Martindale, as its military governor, was supreme in authority. No one could come or go, and nothing be taken in or out, without his permission.