General orders. No. 88

GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 88.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Adjutant General’s Office,

Washington, July 25, 1862.

1 - -The recruiting detail for each volunteer regiment in the field will
hereafter consist of two commissioned officers from the regiment and
one non-commissioned officer or private from each company. Paragraph
III of “General Orders,” No. 105, of 1861, is amended accordingly.
Regimental commanders will at once select the additional men herein
authorized 5 and the order for detail will, as before, be given by the
Commanders of Departments or Corps d’Armed.

2. -One commissioned officer of the detail will remain constantly at
the general recruiting depot to receive the recruits when sent from the
rendezvous, and to exercise care and control over them after their
arrival until they are ordered to their regiments.

3 .. Recruits for regiments now in the field will he permitted to select
any company of the regiment they may prefer. Should the company
thus selected be full when they join it, they will be allowed to select
another.

4 --All men tclio desire, singly or by squads, to join any particular
regiment or company in the field, are hereby authorized to present
themselves to any recruiting officer, when they will be enrolled and
forwarded at once to the general depot for the Slate or district, there
to be duly mustered, and to receive the bounty allowed by law. In
such cases enlistment papers and descriptive lists will be forwarded as
directed in “General Orders” No. 105, of 1861, from this office.

By order of the Secretary of War:

Official:

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant General.

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Assistant Adjutant General.