II-The number prefixed to the name of each of the officers in the above list indicates his rank among those of the same grade. III.-Acceptance, or non-acceptance of appointments, and, in case of acceptance, his birthplace, age, and residence when appointed, together with his full name, will be promptly reported by each officer to the Adjutant-General of the Army. IV. The officers of each regiment will be assigned to battalions and companies by their respective Colonels. The letters of companies will be the same in each battalion of infantry, running down from A to H, inclusive, and no further. V. The newly appointed officers will lose no time in making themselves thoroughly acquainted with the army regulations, the tactics of their several arms, and the various duties of their profession: None will nominated for commissions to the Senate, who have not proved themselves, meantime, to be both worthy and capable of commanding the brave men under them. That the department may be enabled to form a proper judgment on this delicate point, all commanding officers-those of regiments and battalions more particu larly-will forward to this office, in time to reach it by the 15th of July next, a statement, on honor, of the moral, mental, and physical qualifications for the service, of each one of the officers belonging to their commaud." VI. The recruiting for the new regiments will be commenced immediately, and be conducted under the superintendence of their Colonels, or Lieutenant Colonels (as may be hereafter determined) in the States adjoining the headquarters of each regiment. All offi cers will accordingly, by letter or in person, report forthwith for orders to their respective Colonels. The headquarters of the different regiments are established at the following places, viz: Of the 3d Cavalry, at Pittsburg, Pa. Of the 5th Artillery, at Harrisburg, Pa. Of the 11th Infantry, at Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, Mass. Of the 12th Infantry, at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, N. Y. Of the 13th Infantry, at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Of the 14th Infantry, at Fort Trumbull, Conn. Of the 15th Infantry, at Wheeling, Va. Of the 16th Infantry, at Chicago, Ill. Of the 17th Infantry, at Fort Preble, Portland Harbor, Me. Of the 18th Infantry, at Columbus, Ohio. Of the 19th Infantry, at Indianapolis Ind. Estimates for blanks and funds for the recruiting service of each regiment, will be at once prepared and forwarded to this office by the different Colonels. BY ORDER: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 34. WAR DEPT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, June 18, 1861. The Captains and First Lieutenants belonging to old regiments of the army, whose appointment to the same grades in the new regiments, raised in conformity with the President's proclamation of May 3, 1861, is announced in General Orders No. 33, of this date, are to be considered as having been transferred, and will accordingly be mustered in their new regiments, and be borne upon the Army Register, with the same date of rank originally held by them. BY ORDER: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, } No. 35. WAR DEP'T, Adjutant GENERAL'S OFFICE, I.--The organization of the Field and Staff of all Regiments mustered into the service of the United States, for a longer period than three months, must conform strictly to the requirements of General Order No. 15, from this Office, dated May 4, 1861, and payments will be made only when in accordance with it. II. The several Medical Directors of the Army will when they have reason to doubt the Professional competency of any of the Medical Officers, under their charge, organize a Board of not less than three Medical Officers, which shall examine said officers of questioned professional capacity, and decide whether they are competent to the performance of their duties. If the decision of the Board is adverse, they will cease to be in the Military Service of the United States. III.—Maj. Albert J. Smith, Paymaster U. S. Army, having deserted his post--Key West, Fla.-his name will be stricken from the rolls of the Army. BY ORDER: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, } WAR DEPT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, June 24, 1861. I. The organization of volunteer regiments mustered into the service of the United States for a longer period than three months must conform strictly to that prescribed in General Orders No. 15 from this Office dated May 4, 1861. All persons in excess of that organization will be immediately discharged, but will receive pay and allowances to the time of their discharge. The rate of such pay and allowances will be that authorized by section first of the act of Congress approved March 19, 1836. II. The duty of buying horses for the Light Artillery service is retransferred from the Ordnance Department to the Quartermaster's Department. III.-Paragraph 1030 of the Regulations is amended to read as follows: In the field, on the frontier, or in active service the commanding officer may authorize a mounted officer to take from the public stables one or two horses at a price one-third greater than the average cost of the lot from which he selects, or at the actual cost of the horse when that can be ascertained; providing he shall not take the horse of any trooper. A horse so taken shall not be exchanged or returned. Horses of mounted officers shall be shod by the public farrier or blacksmith. IV. The Superintendency of the General Recruiting Service of the Western Department is hereby abolished, and Lieut. Col. Burbank, Thirteenth Infantry, wi'l repair to Jefferson Barracks, Mo., and superintend the recruiting of his regiment. Officers recruiting in the Western Department, including the commander of Newport Barracks, Ky., will hereafter make their returns to the Superintendent of the General Recruiting Service of the Eastern Department stationed at Fort Columbus, New York Harbor. It having been ascertained to the satisfaction of this department that Captain Dabney H. Maury, Assistant Adjutant General, Captain Carter L. Stevenson, 5th Infantry, and 2d Lieutenant Edward Dillon, 6th Infantry, entertain and have expressed treasonable designs against the Government of the United States, their names will be stricken from the rolls of the Army. BY ORDER: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 38. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, I. Those volunteers who are now in the service of the United States for a longer period than three months, will be mustered for payment to include the 30th of June, 1861. Their officers are cautioned that the troops cannot be paid upon Muster-in rolls, and that rolls, proper for this purpose, will be sent to them, which when filled up, they will return to the Paymaster General in this city, that pay rolls may be made therefrom. II. The existing regulations upon the subject of the appointment of Sutlers in the Army are hereby rescinded, and henceforth these appointments will be made by the Secretary of War. BY ORDER: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 39. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. I.-No Volunteer will be discharged upon Surgeon's certificate of disability until the certificate shall have been submitted to the Medical Director, and shall have been approved and countersigned by him. II. Captain John McNab, 10th Infantry, having while in command of Fort Laramie, given satisfactory evidence of his disloyalty to the Government, the President directs that his name be stricken from the Rolls of the Army. He also directs that the name of Assistant Surgeon Lafayette Guild, Medical Staff, be stricken from the Rolls for refusing to renew his oath of allegiance. III. Chaplains of New York Volunteer Regiments mustered into service for two years, will receive the pay and allowances that are granted to Chaplains of three years' Regiments. I. The State of Illinois and the States and Territories west of the Missis sippi river, and on this side of the Rocky Mountains, including New Mexico, will, in future, constitute a separate military command, to be known as the Western Department, under the command of Major General Fremont, of the United States Army, Headquarters at St. Louis. II. It having been ascertained to the satisfaction of this Department that 1st Lieutenant John Thomas Goode, 4th Artillery, entertains and has expressed treasonable designs against the Government of the United States, his name will be stricken from the Rolls of the Army. BY ORDER: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders,) No. 41. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, July 3, 1861. The following named Cadets, graduates of the Military Academy, are attached to the Army with the Brevet of Second Lieutenant, or, in regiments where there are vacancies, with the full rank of Second Lieutenant, in conformity with the fourth section of the act approved April 29, 1812, as follows: CORPS OF ENGINEERS. 1. Cadet Patrick II. O'Rorke, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. 2. Cadet Francis U. Farquhar, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. 3. Cadet Arthur H. Dutton, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. 4. Cadet Clarence Derrick, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. CORPS OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS. 9. Cadet Alfred Mordecai, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. 5. Cadet Daniel W. Flagler, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. 6. Cadet Thomas C. Bradford, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. 7. Cadet Richard M. Hill, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. 8. Cadet William H. Harris, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. FIRST REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS. 10. Cadet David H. Buel, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company] |