Executive Order.

Name: Messages and Papers of Rutherford B. Hayes - Executive Order.
Author: Rutherford B. Hayes

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

Washington,February 22, 1881.

The SECRETARY OF WAR:

In view of the well-known fact that the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Army of the United States is the cause of much demoralization among both officers and men, and that it gives rise to a large proportion of the cases before general and garrison courts-martial, involving great expense and serious injury to the service--

It is therefore directed, That the Secretary of War take suitable steps, as far as practicable consistently with vested rights, to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage at the camps, forts, and other posts of the Army.

R.B. HAYES

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Chicago: Rutherford B. Hayes, "Executive Order.," Messages and Papers of Rutherford B. Hayes in James D. Richardson, Ed., a Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Rutherford B. Hayes (U.S. Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1910), 6:4592 Original Sources, accessed June 15, 2026, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UKL8W5WJTHICQAP.

MLA: Hayes, Rutherford B. "Executive Order." Messages and Papers of Rutherford B. Hayes, in James D. Richardson, Ed., a Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Rutherford B. Hayes (U.S. Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1910), 6:4592, Original Sources. 15 Jun. 2026. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UKL8W5WJTHICQAP.

Harvard: Hayes, RB, 'Executive Order.' in Messages and Papers of Rutherford B. Hayes. cited in , James D. Richardson, Ed., a Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Rutherford B. Hayes (U.S. Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1910), 6:4592. Original Sources, retrieved 15 June 2026, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UKL8W5WJTHICQAP.