1863 Gettysburg campaign order

4 x 6 1/2, imprint.

War Department
Adjutant General's Office
Washington, August 3, 1863

General Orders
No. 268

The exigencies under which one hundred thousand militia for six months' service, from the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, were called out by the President's Proclamation of June 15, 1863, having passed, it is hereby ordered by the President, that on and after the promulgation of this order, no more enlistments under the said call shall be made.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
E.D. TOWNSEND
Assistant Adjutant General

Excellent condition.

WBTS Trivia: This order is referring to the troops that were called up in June 1863 by President Lincoln during the Confederate invasion of the North which resulted in the monumental 3 day battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.