OFFICIAL RECORDS: Series 1, vol 17, Part 2 (Corinth) WEST TENN. AND NORTHERN MISS. Chapter XXIX. Page 396.
SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, HDQRS. ARMY IN THE FIELD,
Numbers 18. Oxford, Miss., December 9, 1862.
V. Women and children are hereafter to be excused from the army in the field. Wing commanders will see that all now with their respective commands are sent to Holle Springs or some point north of that place. Negro women and children and unemployed men will be sent to Chaplain J. Eaton, jr., superintendent of contrabands, Grand Junction, Tenn., who will provide for them. This is not intended to exclude authorized laundresses, hospital nurses, or officers' servants, of which wing and division commander are empowered to judge of the expediency of retaining.
