No. 59.

New Orleans, August 16, 1862.

It is hereby ordered, that the following companies of Louisiana Volunteers shall constitute the First Regiment, viz: The companies of Captains Renaud, Becker, Felton, Totman, Solomon, George, Persons, Kendrick, Parsons, and Ingham.

The following shall be the regimental organization :

Colonel, Richard E. Holcombe.

Lieuteuant Colonel, Henry H. Elliot.

Major, William O. Fiske.

Adjutant, Charles H. Grosvenor.

Quartermaster, James Leonard, Jr.

Surgeon, William T. Black.

First Assistant Surgeon.

Second Assistant Surgeon.

Chaplain, Samuel M. Kingston.

Sergeant Major, Devereux E. Jones,

Quartermaster Sergeant.

Commissary Sergeant.

Hospital Steward.

Drum Major, Benjamin F. Loomis.

Company A-Captain, Clement Renaud.

First Lieutenant, Martin Jacob.
Second Lieutenant, Roland Second.

Company B-Captain, Bernhard Becker.

First Lieutenant, Charles May.

Second Lieutenant, Wm. Kempton Crosby.

Company C-Captain, Francis Felton.

First Lieutenant, George Scheinenauer.
Second Lieutenant, Thomas L. Scott.

Company D--Captain, William H. Totman.

First Lieutenant, Patrick H. Sweeney.
Second Lieutenant, George A. Mayne.

Company E-Captain, Louis A. Solomon.

First Lieutenant, Rudolph Krause.
Second Lieutenant, James M. Gardner.

Company F-Captain, William George.

First Lieutenant, Henry T. Carter.
Second Lieutenant, Hiram P. Haney.

Company G-Captain, Alonzo W. Persons.

First Lieutenant, Alfred T. Munsey.
Second Lieutenant, Leonidas R. Hall.
Company H--Captain, F. M. H. Kendrick.
First Lieutenant, M. O. B. Hill.
Second Lieutenant, Marcena C. Grey.

Company I-Captain, John R. Parsons.

First Lieutenant, Charles A. Tracey.
Second Lieutenant, James T. Smith.

Company K-Captain, H. G. Ingham.

First Lieutenant, Frederick Bahnecke.

Second Lieutenant, Theodore Amelungsen.

The appointment of all the above named officers shall date from the day of the muster. Each officer, non-commissioned officer and private, promoted from other corps of this division into the First Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, will be dropped from the several rolls of their respective corps as of that date.

Every officer, after a proper time to perfect himself in his duties, will be subjected to an examination by a duly appointed Board of Officers, and holds his appointment subject to the result of said examination.

BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BUTLER :

R. S. DAVIS,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant General.

No. 60.

New Orleans, August 16, 1862.

ORDERED, That after Tuesday, 19th inst., there be paid for information leading to the discovery of weapons not held under a written permit from the United States authorities, but retained and concealed by the keepers thereof, the sums following:

For each serviceable Gun, Musket or Rifle,

$10

7

5

5

Said arms to be confiscated, and the keeper so concealing them to be punished by imprisonment.

This crime being an overt act of rebellion against the authority of the United States, whether by a citizen or an alien, works a forfeiture of the property of the offender, and, therefore, every slave giving information that shall discover the concealed arms of his or her master, shall be held to be emancipated.

II. As the United States authorities have disarmed the inhabitants of the Parish of New Orleans, and as some fearful citizens seem to think it necessary that they should have arms to protect themselves from violence, it is ordered,

That hereafter, the offenses of robbery by violence or aggravated assault that ought to be repelled by the use of deadly weapons, burglaries, rapes and murders, whether committed by blacks or whites, will be, on conviction, punished by death.

BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BUTLER :

R. S. DAVIS,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant General.