Andrew Johnson

Executive Order—General Orders: 107

June 02, 1865

WAR DEPARTMENT,

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE

Ordered , That all military restrictions upon trade in any of the States or Territories of the United States, except in articles contraband of war--to wit, arms, ammunition, gray cloth, and all articles from which ammunition is manufactured; locomotives, cars, railroad iron, and machinery for operating railroads; telegraph wires, insulators, and instruments for operating telegraphic lines--shall cease from and after the present date.

By order of the President of the United States:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

Andrew Johnson, Executive Order—General Orders: 107 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202238

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