able, are not to be recommended to the Invalid Corps until they have been under medical treatment or observation a sufficient length of time to make it extremely probable, if not certain, that they will not be fit for active field service during any considerable portion of their period of enlistment.

XI..Soldiers who have lost an arm, forearm, hand, thigh, leg or foot may be discharged from the army on Surgeon's certificate, if they so elect.

XII..None of the foregoing disabilities disqualify officers for service in the Invalid Corps, but some of them may be so aggravated or complicated as to unfit for any service. All such cases should be discharged.

XIII..In all cases where the physical infirmities of officers or enlisted men come within the provisions of the above list, they will be recommended for transfer to, or enlistment in, the Invalid Corps; but no one will be admitted into this Corps whose previous record does not show that he is meritorious and deserving, and that he has complied with the provisions of General Orders No. 105, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1863, authorizing an Invalid Corps.

Physical infirmities that disqualify enlisted men for service in the Invalid Corps.

1. Manifest imbecility or insanity.

2. Epilepsy, if the seizures occur more frequently than once a month, and have obviously impaired the mental faculties.

3. Paralysis or chorea.

4. Organic diseases of the brain or spinal chord; of the heart or lungs; of the stomach or intestines; of the liver or spleen; of the kidneys or bladder, so extensive and long continued as to have seriously impaired the general health, or so well marked as to leave no reasonable doubt of the man's incapacity for service in the Invalid Corps.

5. Confirmed consumption, cancer, aneurism of important arteries. 6. Inveterate and extensive disease of the skin.

7. Scrofula, or constitutional syphilis, which has resisted treatment and seriously impaired the general health.

8. Habitual or confirmed intemperance, or solitary vice, degree to have materially enfeebled the constitution.

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9. Great injuries or diseases of the skull, occasioning impairment of the intellectual faculties, epilepsy, or other serious nervous or spasmodic symptoms.

10. Total loss of sight, partial loss of sight of both eyes, and permanent diseases of either eye affecting the integrity and use of the other eye, vision being so greatly impaired as to leave no reasonable doubt of the man's incapacity for service in the Invalid Corps.

11. Loss of nose, or deformity of nose, if sufficient seriously to obstruct respiration; ozana, if dependent upon caries.

12. Deafness.

13. Dumbness, permanent loss of voice.

14. Total loss of tongue, partial loss, and hypertrophy or atrophy of tongue, if sufficient to make the speech unintelligible and prevent mastication or deglutition.

15. Incurable deformities of either jaw, whether congenital or produced by accident, which would prevent mastication or greatly injure the speech.

16. Tumors of the neck, impeding respiration or deglutition; fistula of larynx or trachea.

17. Deformity of the chest, sufficient to impede respiration or to prevent the carrying of arms and military equipments; caries of the ribs. 18. Artificial anus; severe stricture of the rectum.

19. Total loss, or nearly total loss, of penis; epispadia or hypospadia at the middle or nearer the root of the penis; stone in the bladder.

20. Incurable permanent organic stricture of the urethra, in which the urine is passed drop by drop, or which is complicated by disease of the bladder; urinary fistula.

21. Confirmed or malignant sarcocele; hydrocele, if complicated with organic disease of the testis.

22. Excessive anterior or posterior curvature of the spine; caries of the spine; lumbar abscess.

23. Anchylosis of the hip joint.

24. Irreducible dislocation of hip or knee joint.

25. Large chronic ulcers of lower extremities.

XIV..In all cases where the physical infirmities of an officer or enlisted man come within the provisions of this list, or where his previous record shows that he is not entitled to be received into the Invalid Corps, he will, if in service, be discharged; and if an applicant to reenter, his application will be disapproved.

XV..All orders or parts of orders inconsistent with the foregoing are revoked.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

Brigadier General ROBERT ALLEN is announced as senior Quartermaster of the Department of the Northwest, Missouri, and Tennessee. All officers of the Quartermaster's Department, serving in those Departments, will respect and obey his orders accordingly.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

GENERAL ORDERS,

E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

No. 216.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, July 14, 1863.

I..All able-bodied men, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, who have heretofore been enlisted and have served for not less than nine months, have been honorably discharged, and can pass the examination required by the Mustering Regulations of the United States, may be enlisted in any Regiment they choose, new or old; and, when mustered into the United States service, will be entitled to all the benefits provided by General Orders No. 191, for Recruiting "Veteran Volunteers."

A Regiment, Battalion, or Company shall bear the title of "Veteran"' only in case at least one-half its numbers, at the time of muster into United States service, are "Veteran Volunteers."

II..The benefits provided by General Orders 191, for Veteran Volunteers, will be extended to men who re-enlisted prior to the promulgation of that order, provided they have fulfilled the conditions therein set forth.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 222.

E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, July 16, 1863.

The reward of five dollars, with transportation and reasonable expenses, for the arrest and delivery at the nearest military post or depot of any officer or private soldier fit for duty who may be found absent from his command without just cause is hereby increased to ten dollars. Paragraph 156, Revised Regulations, and Paragraph V, General Orders No. 92, are modified accordingly.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

To facilitate the organization of the Signal Corps, War Department General Orders No. 106, of 1863, will be modified as follows:

The Signal Officer of the Army will immediately detach five officers of the grade of captain, from those that have already been examined and approved, and order them to report in person at the Headquarters of the Departments of North Carolina, of the South, of the Gulf, of the Cumberland, and of the Tennessee, respectively.

On the arrival of these officers at the Headquarters to which they are

assigned, the Commander of the Department will immediately assemble an Examining Board of not less than three nor more than five members, of which the signal officer assigned above and a medical officer shall be members, for the examination of the acting signal officers serving in the Department, and such other persons as may be properly brought before it as candidates for appointment in the Signal Corps. The examination will be conducted as prescribed in the General Orders No. 106, above cited, and weekly reports of the proceedings of each Board will be made, through the Signal Officer of the Army, to the Secretary of War; and at the conclusion of the examination a special report, exhibiting the relative standing of each officer in the grade to which he has been recommended, will be made to the Central Board in this city.

The Examining Boards will hold their sessions at such times and places as may enable them most promptly to discharge their duties. Officers of the acting Signal Corps will be examined in such order as the interests of the service will permit.

Applications to appear before the Boards must be made in writing, and no application will be considered unless by the special authority of the Secretary of War, or, in case of acting Signal Officers, it is with the approval of the Colonel commanding the Corps.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. TOWNSEND,. Assistant Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

WAR DEPARTMENT,

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, July 23, 1863.

No. 227. Brigadier General S. A. MEREDITHI will repair to Fort Monroe and relieve Lieutenant Colonel Ludlow of the duties of Agent for exchange of prisoners. After turning over to General Meredith all papers connected with his office, Lieutenant Colonel Ludlow will report to the Adjutant General of the Army.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant General.