SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 248.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS,

December 1, 1863.

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3. At 12 m. on the 2d instant the Statue of Freedom, which crowns the Dome of the National Capitol, will be inaugurated. In commemoration of this event, and as an expression due from the Department of respect for this material symbol of the principle on which our Government is based, it is ordered—

First. At the moment at which a flag is displayed from the statue a national salute of thirty-five guns will be fired from a field battery on Capitol Hill.

Second. The last gun from the salute will be answered by a similar salute from Fort Stanton, which will be followed in succession from right to left by salutes from Forts Davis, Mahan, Lincoln, Bunker Hill, Totten, De Russy, Reno, Cameron, Corcoran, Albany, and Scott.

4. Brig. Gen. W. F. Barry will make the necessary arrangements for and superintend the firing from Capitol Hill, Brigadier-General De Russy from the works south, and Lieut. Col. J. A. Haskin from those north of the Potomac.,

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By command of Major-General Augur:

CARROLL H. POTTER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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Thomas U. Walter, The New Dome, Report of the Architect of the Capitol Extension, The Abridgment: Containing Messages of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers, 1864.