▢▢▢I am, General, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,

C. G. Sawtelle,▢▢▢
Colonel and Chief Quartermaster Military Division of the Gulf.▢

▢Maj. Gen. M. C. Meigs,
▢▢▢Quartermaster-General United States Army, Washington, D. C.


▢▢▢I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. P. Langley, Secretary.▢

Note.—In cases like the two preceding observe use of lead between text line and signature.

24. Titles preceding names will always be capitalized: Senior Warden Brown; Grand Master Williamson; Master Workman Sovereign; Sergeant Murphy; Private O’Donnell; Boatswain Given; Tinsmith Harris, etc.

25. Lower-case participles derived from proper names, such as anglicized, frenchified, romanized, gallicized; also adjective or qualifying nouns indirectly derived from and compounded with proper names, as tropical, arctic, transatlantic, etc.