11. Cadet Stephen C. Lyford, jr., to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company —.] SECOND REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS. 20. Cadet Francis H. Parker, to be Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company B.] 23 Cadet Henry E. Noyes, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company] 33. Cadet Frank A. Reynolds, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company—.] FIRST REGIMENT OF CAVALRY. 17. Cadet Joseph C. Audenried, to be Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company F.] SECOND REGIMENT OF CAVALRY. 14. Cadet John R. Edie, jr., to be Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company D.] 34. Cadet George A. Custer, to be Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861, [Company G.] REGIMENT OF MOUNTED RIFLEMEN. 28. Cadet LeRoy S. Elbert, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company] 32. Cadet George O. Watts, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company -] FIRST REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. 16. Cadet George A. Woodruff, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company -.] SECOND REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. 19. Cadet Peter C. Haines, to be Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company G.] 21. Cadet Joseph P. Farley, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861, [Company] THIRD REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. 15. Cadet Lawrence S. Babbitt, to be Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company M.] 25. Cadet William D. Fuller, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company] FOURTH REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. 12. Cadet Alonzo H. Cushing, to be Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company H.] 13. Cadet Charles C. Parsons, to be Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company G.] 22. Cadet Joseph B. Campbell, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company] FOURTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 18. Cadet Julius W. Adams, jr., to be Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company K.] 29. Cadet Charles H. Brightly, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company -.] SIXTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 26. Cadet Justin E. Dimick, to be Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company A.] 27. Cadet James P. Drouillard, to be Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company D.] EIGHTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 24. Cadet Philip II. Remington, to be Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company K.] 30. Cadet Eugene Carter to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company] 31. Cadet Samuel P. Ferris, to be Brevet Second Lieutenant, June 24, 1861. [Company] The companies to which these officers are arranged, are those to which they succeeded in the natural course of promotion and appointment. They will join them without delay. BY ORDER: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, } No. 42. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The Quartermaster's Department will provide horses, and the Ordnance Department will furnish horse equipments for Volunteer Cavalry Companies, upon the requisition of the Mustering Officer, as fast as such companies are mustered into the service. BY ORDER: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 43. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, July 10, 1851. Commissioned Officers of Volunteers received into the service of the United States for two and three years, or for the period of the war, will be entitled to receive one day's pay and subsistence for every twenty miles' travel from the place of enrolment to the place of muster into the service of the United States, and from the place of discharge to the place of enrolment; the distance to be estimated by the most direct mail route. BY ORDER: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, } No. 44. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, July 13, 1861. I. In compliance with a Resolution of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of War directs that officers report to this office the names and residences of all prisoners that may be hereafter taken and released upon their oath of allegiance to the United States. In like manner, officers will report the names and residences of all prisoners who have been taken and released upon their oath of allegiance to the United States, previous to this date. II.-Chaplains appointed to volunteer regiments in accordance with General Orders, No. 15, current series, from the War Department, will in all cases be duly mustered into the service, in the same manner as prescribed for commissioned officers. III.-Volunteer regiments about to be discharged, will be returned to the States in which they were raised in time to be there mustered out at the expiration of their service. IV. First Lieutenant J. E. Slaughter, 1st Artillery, having left his regiment without authority, and being now in arms against the government of the United States, is dismissed from the army, to date from May 14, 1861. V. Brevet Second Lieutenant John M. Kerr, Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, having overstayed his leave of absence, and failed to report to this office, is dropped from the rolls of the Army. BY ORDER, L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 45. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, July 19, 1861. I.-Brevet Second Lieutenant Clarence Derrick, Corps of Engineers, Brevet Second Lieutenant James P. Parker, 4th Infantry, and Brevet Second Lieutenant Frank A. Reynolds, 2d Dragoons, members of the class just graduated at West Point, having tendered their resignations in the face of the enemy, are dismissed from the service of the United States, to date from the 16th instant. II.-Military Storekeeper and Paymaster Dennis Murphy, Ordnance Department, is hereby dismissed from the Army. III.-Officers mustering in troops, will be careful that men from one company or detachment, are not borrowed for the occasion, to swell the ranks of others about to be mustered. In future no volunteer will be mustered into the service who is unable to speak the English language. Mustering Officers will at all times hold themselves in readiness to muster out of service such regiments of Volunteers as may be entitled to their discharge. IV.-Officers of the Volunteer Service, tendering their resignations, will forward them through the intermediate commanders to the Officer Commanding the Department or Corps d' Armeé in which they may be serving, who is hereby authorized to grant them honorable discharges. This Commander will immediately report his action to the Adjutant General of the Army, who will communicate the same to the Governor of the State to which the officer belongs. Vacancies occurring among the commissioned officers in volunteer regiments will be filled by the Governors of the respective States by which the regiments were furnished. Information of such appointments will in all cases be furnished to the Adjutant General of the Army. BY ORDER: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 46. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, I.--Major General Robert Patterson, of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, will be honorably discharged from the service of the United States on the 27th instant, when his tour of duty will expire. Brevet Major General Cadwallader, also of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, will be honorably discharged upon the receipt of this Order, as his term of service expires to-day. II.-Major General Dix, of the United States Forces, will relieve Major General Banks, of the same service, in his present command, which will in future be called the Department of Maryland, Headquarters at Baltimore. Upon being relieved by Major General Dix, Major General Banks will proceed to the Valley of Virginia and assume command of the army now under Major General Patterson, when that Department will be called the Department of the Shenandoah, Headquarters in the field. III. The following named General Officers will be honorably discharged upon the expiration of their terms of service, as hereinafter set opposite their respective names, viz: New York State Militia. Major General Charles W. Sandford, August 15, 1861. New Jersey Volunteers. Brigadier General Theodore Runyon, July 30, 1861. Ohio Volunteers. Brigadier General J. D. Cox, July 30, 1861. Indiana Volunteers. Brigadier General T. A. Morris, July 27, 1861. IV.-Brigade Surgeons rank as Surgeons only. V.-Officers mustering out Volunteers, will charge upon the rolls the indebtedness of the troops to the State by which they were furnished. BY ORDER: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Order,} No. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, I. There will be added to the Department of the Shenandoah, the counties of Washington and Allegheny in Maryland, and such other parts of Virginia as may be covered by the Army in its operations; and there will be added to the Department of Washington, the counties of Prince George, Montgomery and Frederick. The remainder of Maryland and all Pennsylvania and Delaware will constitute the Department of Pennsylvania, Headquarters, Baltimore. The Department of Washington and the Department of Northeastern Virginia, will constitute a geographical Division under Major General McClellan, U. S. A., Headquarters, Washington. II. -All officers of Volunteer regiments will be subject to examination by a Military Board, to be appointed by this Department with the concurrence of the General-in-Chief, as to their fitness for the positions assigned them. Those officers found to be incompetent will be rejected, and the vacancies thus occasioned will be filled by the appointment of such persons as may have passed the examination before the Board. III.-Camp Picket, San Juan Island, W. T., and Fort Chehalis, Gray's Har bor, W. T., are announced as double-ration posts, the former from July 22, 1859, and the latter from February 11, 1860, being the respective dates of their first occupation by troops. IV. Captain Robert B. Garland and First Lieutenant Edward J. Brooks, 7th Infantry, having given evidence of disloyalty, are dropped from the rolls of the Army, to date from May 23, 1861, and May 16, 1861, respectively. First Lieutenant James Deshler, 10th Infantry, having overstayed his leave of absence and failed to report to the Commanding Officer of the Department of the West, is dropped from the rolls of the Army, to date from July 15, 1861. BY ORDER: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, July 21, 1861. I.-The following Act of Congress is published for the information of the No. 48. Army: AN ACT to increase the present military establishment of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be added to the regular army as now authorized by law nine regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, and one regiment of artillery; each regiment of infantry to consist of not less than two nor more than three battalions, as the exigencies of the public ser. vice may, in the opinion of the President of the United States, demand: each battalion to consist of eight companies; each company to consist of one captain, one first and one second lieutenant, one first sergeant, four sergeants, eight corporals, two musicians, and as many privates, not exceeding eighty-two, as the President of the United States may, according to the requirements of military service, direct. The regiment of cavalry hereby authorized shall consist of not more than three battalions of not more than two squadrons cach; and each squadron shall consist of two companies, each company to be composed of one captain, one first and one second lieutenant, one first sergeant, one quartermaster sergeant, four sergeants, eight corporals, two musicians, two farriers, one saddler, one wagoner, and as many privates, not exceeding seventy-two, as the President of the United may, according to the requirements of the military service, direct. The regiment of artillery hereby authorized shall consist of not more than twelve batteries; and each battery shall consist of one captain, one first and one second lieutenant, one first sergeant, one quartermaster sergeant, four sergeants, eight corporals, two musicians, two artificers, one wagoner, and as many privates, not exceeding one hundred and twenty-two, as the President of the United States may, according to the requirements of the military service, direct. And there may be added to the aforesaid battery organization, at the discretion of the President, having due regard to the public necessities and means, one first and one second lieutenant, two sergeants and four corporals. SEC. 2.—And be it further enacted, That the field and staff commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the regiments hereinbefore authorized, shall be as follows: To each regiment of infautry, one colonel one lieutenant colonel, one regimental adjutant, one regimental quartermaster and commissary, one drum major, or leader of the band, and two principal musicians, and to each battalion of infantry, one major, one battalion adjutant, one battalion quartermaster and commissary, one sergeant major, one quartermaster sergeant, one commissary sergeant, and one hospital steward; the regimental and battalion adjutants, and quartermasters and commissaries, to be taken from the lieutenants of the regi |