Unidentified photographer / artist
1863, 11 March
Detective Pontier is hereby ordered

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Published in "History of Maryland from the Earliest Period to the Present Day", Volume III by J. Thomas Scharf (Baltimore, John B. Piet), p.527-528.
 
"Headquarters Middle Department, Eighth Army Corps,
Office Provost Marshal, Baltimore, March llth, 1863
 
"Detective Pontier is hereby ordered to proceed to any photographist, or dealer in pictures in this city, and seize all pictures of rebel generals and statesmen which they are publicly or privately exposing for sale, as they have been repeatedly requested not to display such pictures for sale, and furthermore ordered by Marshal Van Nostrand not to sell such pictures; and the sale of such pictures is hereby forbidden hereafter, unless by special permission of the military authorities.
 
" Per order of Major General " R. C. SCHENCK.
" W. S. Fish, Lieutenant Colonel and Protost Marital."
 
[Two pages have been combined for the ease of reading.]
 
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