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GENERAL ORDERS,

HEADQUARTERS HOOD'S CORPS,

Numbers 38.

Dalton, Ga., March 11, 1864.

To avoid dangerous confusion in action, each regiment and battery will be required to bear the Confederate battle-flag.

The chief quartermaster is instructed to take immediate steps to provide the command with these colors.

The lieutenant-general commanding can well understand the bridge many regiments of the corps fire in other flags which they have gloriously borne in battle, but the interests of the service are imperative. He would therefore suggest that such standards be sent for safe keeping to the capitol of the States to which the troops belong, as it will be found inconvenient to have more than one flag in a regiment.

By command of Lieutenant-General Hood:

ARCHER ANDERSON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.
OR V32, PT. 3, pp. 612/3