Adm 316.4 18 863 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by O'BRIEN AND DIEFENDORF, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. PREFACE. WITH the view of meeting a very general demand throughout the military service of the United States, the compilers have, at great expense, prepared the Index and published these volumes, containing, word for word, every General Order issued, numerically, by the War Department during the years 1861, 1862 and 1863. We believe that the publication of all the orders in book form, to take the place of the great mass of orders issued in sheets without index, hitherto used by officers, will be appreciated by those whose proper discharge of duty calls for constant reference to the requirements of the various Departments of the Government; and we have earnestly endeavored to make the INDEX a valuable auxiliary to Staff Officers of Department and Division Head-quarters, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Mustering and Disbursing Officers, Commissaries, Provost Marshals, and, in fact, the whole Field and Staff and Line of the Army. The magnitude of the struggle in which the country is now engaged has necessitated frequent changes and modifications of the Regulations of the Army, in relation to the operations of forces in the field, which are alone promulgated in General Orders, and, of the vast number of officers in the Army and Navy, it is safe to assume that not one in fifty possesses a complete file. To supply this class the work has been published, and as the object sought is the enhancement of the public good, by furnishing a ready means for observance of rules prescribed through the Secretary of War for the improvement of the service, we hazard the belief that Company Officers will also avail themselves of an opportunity thus afforded of direct instruction in the modus operandi of official routine regarding responsibility for, and reports relating to, Ordnance and Company property. Without egotism, we may submit that, to every branch of the service, the concise and complete form of the publication will prove convenient, and peculiarly commend itself to State authorities and their Militia organizations, also to Military associations, clerks in the various Departments of Government, and libraries throughout the Union. Historians of the War, Editors and others will find their labors of research vastly curtailed by its chronological arrangement and full Index. NEW YORK, 1864. THE COMPILERS. INDEX. Abert, Col. John J., retired from active service.. Absentees from General Muster of August 18, 1862, to be reported deserters.. Absentees to join their Commands if able to do so................. Accidents, troops transported by rail to march on foot over bridges, to prevent.. under the Draft payable by the Commissary General of Subsistence... connected with the Draft and Militia organization, rules respecting.. chargeable to the Recruiting Fund to be audited in certain cases by War De- Act of Congress relative to seizure of arsenals, forts, etc., by rebels.. for the better organization of the Military establishment. relative to Courts Martial in the army..... to provide Allotment Certificates among the volunteer forces..... authorizing President to take possession of railroad and telegraph lines. to amend an act to regulate trade and intercourse with Indians..... making appropriations for completing defences of Washington.... to provide for appointment of Sutlers in the Volunteer service........ to secure to officers and men in Western Department their pay, (i) 66 Act of Congress making appropriations for pay of two and three years' volunteers.... 257 257 to authorize appointment of Medical Storekeepers and Chaplains of 258 to prevent and punish fraud on part of officers entrusted with making ....... 259, 298 making appropriation for payment of Bounty to Volunteers................. 323 323 324 335 to prevent members of Congress from participation in contracts, etc. to suppress insurrection, to punish treason, etc... providing for prompt settlement of accounts of disbursing officers... 338 839 340 343 844 347 to reimburse State of Missouri for expense of Arming and Paying 350 64 suspending temporarily operation of the Act to Punish Frauds in Actual Travelling Expenses of recruiting officers detailed from Regiments.. Adjutant General assigned to Army Corps to remain permanently attached..... Adjutants, Regimental, Appointment and Resignation of, to be reported to Adjutant Adjutant or Post Commander to forward Mortuary Records to the Adjutant General.. Adair, Lieutenant John, dismissed the service as a Deserter... Advance Bounty payable during existing war..... to Volunteers enlisting in the Regular Army..... 66 66 Aides-de-Camp, President to appoint additional... to General Officers not to be taken from Regular Army.. 44 how reported on Returns... to be selected as authorized in Act of July 29, 1861.. additional not to be placed on duty until appointed by the President. 230 additions to...... grade of Captain abolished in the.. 93 847 471 33 33 90 158 232 247 314 348 411 892 343, 349 349 Lieutenants appointed, carried on Regimental Rolls as on detached power of apppointing rests exclusively with the President... Aliens residing in United States not to take a general or qualified Oath of Allegiance. 306 321, 347 471 165 230 326 347 89 219 163 |