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1 Quartermaster (an extra Lieut.) 1 Regimental

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Commissary Ser

1 Hospital Steward.

2 Principal Musicians.

Company of Infantry.

4 Sergeants.

8 Corporals.

2 Musicians.

1 Wagoner.

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2. REGIMENT OF CAVALRY-Twelve Companies or Troops.

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1 Regimental Adjutant (an extra 1 Quartermaster Sergeant.

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To the above organization of a battery one First and one Second Lieutenant, two Sergeants, and four Corporals may be added at the President's discretion.

The field officers, chaplain, and regimental staff-commissioned and non-commissioned-will not be mustered or received into service without special authority from the War Department. As a general rule, Artillery will be called for and received by batteries, thus rendering the field and staff unnecessary.

II..Chaplains must meet the requirements of section 8 of the act of July 17, 1862, (G. O. 91, A. G. O., 1862, pages 17 and 18,) as follows: "No person shall be appointed a chaplain in the United States Army who is not a regularly ordained minister of some religious denomination, and who does not present testimonials of his present good standing as such minister, with a recommendation for his appointment as an Army chaplain from some authorized ecclesiastical body, or not less than five accredited ministers belonging to said religious denomination."

After Chaplains are appointed, under section 9 of the act of July 22, 1861, (G. O. 49, A. G. O., 1861, page 4,) they must be mustered into service by an officer of the regular Army, and thereafter borne on the field and staff roll of the regiment.

Mustering officers, before mustering Chaplains into service, will require from them a copy of the proceedings on which the appointment is based. The said copy, if found conformable to the requirements of the law, will be indorsed by the mustering officer, and by him forwarded to the Adjutant General's office, for file with the muster-in roll.

III..Except where consolidations have been made, or are to be made, under G. O. No. 86, from this office, the foregoing organizations will be strictly adhered to by all concerned.

No commissioned officer or enlisted man, of any grade, in excess of the legal organization, will be recognized. Any commander who may acknowledge or receive, as in service, any such officer or enlisted man, will be brought to trial for neglect of duty and disobedience of orders. No person acting in the capacity of a supernumerary will, under any circumstances, be permitted to receive pay and allowances from the government; and Paymasters making payment to such supernumeraries will be held individually accountable for amounts so paid.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY of War:

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I..From and after the first day of May, all enlistments of volunteers shall be under the special charge and direction of the Provost Marshal General, under the rules and regulations heretofore made, which are hereby continued in force, and such other rules of the Department as may from time to time. be made. All disbursing officers, and all other officers connected with the enlistment of volunteers, will report to him. II..Officers of regiments going out of service, by reason of the expiration of their term, may, with the consent of their respective

Governors, re-enlist their regiments, within thirty days from the expiration of the original service, for a term of three years, unless sooner discharged; and upon the regiment being filled up within the thirty days aforesaid, the officers shall be restored to their rank as from the date of their original commissions. This, however, will give no claim

to pay for the time between muster out and re-entry into service. III..The law provides that a man who enlists for three years, unless sooner discharged, is entitled to one month's pay in advance upon the mustering of his company into the service of the United States, or after he shall have been mustered into and joined a regiment already in the service, and to a bounty of one hundred dollars, twenty-five dollars of which is to be paid in advance when his company is organized, muster-in rolls made out, and the mustering officer's certificate given thereto, or after he shall have been mustered into and joined a regiment already in the service.

IV..Hereafter, regiments of volunteers leaving the field on account of expiration of term of service will be permitted, on the application of their officers, who shall undertake to hold themselves responsible for their safe delivery, to take their arms and accoutrements to the place of discharge, to be delivered to the Governor of the State, or to officers appointed by him to receive them. The arms and accoutrements will be held subject to reissue to the men on re-enlistment in their former companies and regiments.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

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Under the Enrolment Act, drafted men will be actually in the United States service as soldiers from the fact of being drafted. It is therefore ordered that they be put in uniform, and provided with knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, tin cups, spoons, &c., as soon as they report to the District Provost Marshals.

The Quartermaster General will fill the requisitions of the Provost Marshal General for clothing, &c., for this purpose, to be delivered at such points as the latter may designate.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

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The following rules in relation to claims for property lost in the military service of the United States are published for the information of all concerned :

I..Rules in relation to claims for the payment of HORSES AND EQUIPAGE lost or destroyed in the MILITARY SERVICE of the United States, under act of March 3, 1849.

By the first section of the law it is enacted: That any field or staff, or other officer, mounted militiaman, volunteer, ranger, or cavalry, engaged in the military service of the United States since the 18th of June, 1812, or who shall hereafter be in said service, and has sustained or shall sustain damage, without any fault or negligence on his part, while in said service

1st. By the loss of a horse in battle.

2d. By the loss of a horse wounded in battle, and which has died or shall die of said wound, or, being so wounded, shall be abandoned by order of his officer and lost:

3d. By the loss of a horse by death or abandonment, because of the unavoidable dangers of the sea, when on board a United States transport vessel:

Because the United States failed to supply transportation for the horse, and the owner was compelled,, by order of his commanding officer, to embark and leave him :

In consequence of the United States failing to supply sufficient forage:

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