Colonel J. R. Murphy, 29th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Lieutenant Colonel R. A. Bashaw, 87th New York Volunteers. Captain James H. Bradt, 101st New York Volunteers, Captain J. P. C. Emmons, 1st Michigan Volunteers. Captain J. D. Crittenden, Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers. Captain H. E. Clark, 1st New Jersey Volunteers. Captain W. Rickards, jr., 29th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Captain W. D. Rickards, 29th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Captain G. W. Kugler, 1st Maryland Volunteers. Captain B. H. Schley, 1st Maryland Volunteers. Captain James A. Betts, 5th Connecticut Volunteers. Captain David Schortz, 12th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 1st Lieutenant James Almond, 5th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 1st Lieutenant J. D. Shuller, 87th New York Volunteers. 1st Lieutenant Henry E. Tremaine, Acting Assistant Adjutant General to Sickles' Brigade. 1st Lieutenant George Vanfleet, 105th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 1st Lieutenant And. Luke, 7th Indiana Volunteers. 1st Lieutenant John Badgley, 69th Ohio Volunteers. 1st Lieutenant W. T. Baum, 26th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 1st Lieutenant B. L. Chamberlain, 8th Illinois Cavalry. 1st Lieutenant W. H. Clark, 4th Maine Volunteers. 1st Lieutenant J. W. Deford, Signal Corps. 1st Lieutenant J. E. Fleming, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 1st Lieutenant Charles Wilatus, 8th New York Volunteers. Lieutenant David S. Unckle, 14th New York State Militia. 2d Lieutenant W. T. Allen, 1st New York Volunteers. 2d Lieutenant D. O. Beckwith, 87th New York Volunteers. 2d Lieutenant Charles F. Dwight, Aide to General Sickles. 2d Lieutenant H. C. Jackson, 48th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 2d Lieutenant S. Johnson, 38th New York Volunteers. 2d Lieutenant Thomas Morley, 12th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 2d Lieutenant George C. Parker, 21st Massachusetts Volunteers. 2d Lieutenant Charles Zimmerman, 12th Pennsylvania Volunteers. III-LIST OF NAVAL AND OTHER OFFICERS EXCHANGED, BUT NO SPE- Master's Mate E. W. Hale, U. S. Navy. Assistant Paymaster L. S. Stockwell, U. S. Navy. 1st Officer Thomas A. Palmer, U. S. Transport "Union." Chief Engineer J. L. Perry, U. S. Transport Union." 1st Assistant Engineer J. C. Shockley, U. S. Transport "Union." 2d Assistant Engineer J. L. Hand, U. S. Transport "Union." 3d Assistant Engineer A. M. Rankin, U. S. Transport "Union." Purser J. B. Kester, U. S. Transport "Union.". Topographical Engineer William Luce. IV.-FEDERAL PRISONERS. The following is a list of exchanges which have been made since the lists already published: Delivered to Lieutenant Colonel Ludlow, at Aiken's Landing, September 7, 1862... Delivered to Lieutenant Colonel Ludlow, at Aikin's Landing, September 21, 1862... Private William Seymour, 2d U. S. Infantry. 716 1st U. S. Infantry. 114 3d U. S. Infantry. 8th U. S. Infantry. 182 3d U. S. Cavalry. 7th U. S. Infantry. 459 Shiloh prisoners. 2,001 Gainesville prisoners delivered to Major C. E. Livingston, September 1, 1862.... 1,310 Gainesville prisoners delivered to Lieutenant D. S. Unckle, August 30, 1862.... The total number of exchanges to be offset by delivery of Confederate prisoners at Vicksburg is now..... BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. 271 ...10,368 General Orders, No. 148. WAR DEP'T, Adjutant GeneRAL'S OFFICE, Washington, October 1, 1862. SIMEON DRAPER, Esquire, of New York, has been appointed, from this date, Provost Marshal General of the War Department, under the provisions of “General Orders," No. 140. He will be respected accordingly. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, ( No. 149. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, October 2, 1862. No person shall be mustered into the service of the United States as a mem ber of the Corps of Sharpshooters, unless he shall produce a certificate of some person, duly authorized by the Governor of the State in which the company is raised, that he has in five consecutive shots, at two hundred yards at rest, made a string not over twenty-five inches; or the same string off-hand at one hun dred yards; the certificate to be written on the target used as the test. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 150. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, October 2, 1862. The following order is published for the information of all concerned: ORDER TRANSFERRING GUN-BOAT FLEET. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., October 1, 1862. Under the Act of Congress of 16th July, 1862, the Western gunboat fleet is this day transferred from the War to the Navy Department. The officers in charge will transfer to the officers of the Navy authorized to receive them, the vessels, navy stores, supplies, and property of all kinds pertaining to the fleet. The usual receipts will be taken in triplicate for all property transferred. The Chief Quartermaster, Captain G. D. Wise, of the Gun-boat fleet, will settle up all indebtedness of the fleet to the 1st of October, make the usual returns and will close his accounts, and report by letter to the Quartermaster General. In thus transferring this fleet, organized and built under the direction of the War Department, to the Navy Department, the Secretary of War desires to express to the officers both of the Army and Navy, and to the civilians temporarily employed upon this dangerous service of the Gun-boat fleet, his high sense of the valor, skill, and patriotism with which the operations of this fleet have been conducted. The brilliant and important services of the gun-boats at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Columbus, Island No. 10, Pittsburg Landing, Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge, and generally in independent action or in co-operation with the Army on the Western rivers, will constitute one of the brightest pages in the history of the war for the preservation of the integrity of the country, and the suppression of a causeless and wicked rebellion. They have the thanks, so well deserved, of this government and of the people of the United States. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 151. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, October 4, 1862. I.-Captain George H. Johnston, Assistant Adjutant General, having sent a letter to a Member of Congress censuring his superior officers, and enclosing a copy of an official report of a confidential character, in relation to the defence of his post, and asking that his communication be brought to the notice of the Secretary of War, thus doubly violating the Army Regulations and General Orders, is hereby publicly reprimanded. His immediate Commander is not free from censure for permitting Captain Johnston to copy and transmit, out of the prescribed channels, official docu ments. II.-If any officer shall hereafter, without proper authority, permit the publication of any official letter or report, or allow any copy of such document to pass into the hands of persons not authorized to receive it, his name will be submitted to the President for dismissal. This rule applies to all official letters and reports written by an officer himself. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders,} No. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, October 6, 1862. The attention of all officers commanding posts, districts, or brigades of troope to which Chaplains are attached, is again directed to section 8 and 9 of the act "to define the pay and emoluments of certain officers of the Army, &c.," approved July 17, 1862, and to the duty therein enjoined on them,-a duty which they will at once fulfil. The two sections of this law, referred to, though already published in Geneeral Orders, No. 91, of July 29, 1862, are republished for their information: SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That so much of section nine of the aforesaid act, approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and of section seven of the "Act providing for the better organization of the military establishment," approved August 3d, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as defines the qualifications of Chaplains in the army and volunteers, shall hereafter be construed to read as follows: That 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. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That hereafter the compensation of all Chaplains in the regular or volunteer service or army hospitals shall be one hundred dollars per month and two rations a day when on duty; and the Chaplains of the permanent hospitals, appointed under the authority of the second section of the act approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, shall be nominated to the Senate for its advice and consent, and they shall, in all respects, fill the requirements of the preceding section of this act relative to the appointment of Chaplains in the army and volunteers, and the appointments of Chaplains to army hospitals, heretofore made by the President, are hereby confirmed; and it is hereby made the duty of each officer commanding a district or post containing hospitals, or a brigade of troops, within thirty days after the reception of the order promulgating this act, to inquire into the fitness, efficiency, and qualifications of the Chaplains of hospitals or regiments, and to muster out of service such Chaplains as were not appointed in conformity with the requirements of this act, and who have not faithfully discharged the duties of Chaplains during the time they have been engaged as such. Chaplains employed at the military posts called "Chaplains' posts" shall be required to reside at the posts, and all Chaplains in the United States service shall be subject to such rules in relation to leave of absence from duty as are prescribed for commissioned officers of the United States army stationed at such posts. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. |