Rescinds paragraph 2 of General order no. 47, and states that Generals shall from time to time appoint military boards to examine volunteers. Announces that the six mounted regiments of the army are to be consolidated into one corps and renamed
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"War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, August 10, 1861."
NLM copy, bound fifty-fifth in a volume of 111 general orders issued by the United States War Department