The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-20
Jar DEPARTMENT,

publication, which we hasten lay before our read
ers:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
| Nov 10, 1876.
Sra; In my Communication Of the 18th Of May
last, your excellency requested TO organize
18th of that month"; TO be held in readiness for public
| service.
The President now directs to notify your ex-
cellency that one infantry regiment Of volunteers
from your State is required for immediate service
and TO be continued therein during the war with
Mexico, unless sooner discharged. The regiment
will consist Of
Field and stgG-l colonel, lieutenant colonel,
major, adjutant, Ia lieutenant Of one Of the comps
| MES, but not in addIuon.)
Non commissioned siof-l sergeant major, quar-
temaster sergeant, 2 principal musicians, and IL
! companies, each of which to consist Of captain,
first Lieutenant second lieutenants 4 sergeants,
corPorals, 2 musicians, and 80 prlvates.
Should the number Of pryates, on being muster
ed not fall below sixty -four effective IN CON-
| pany, 1t will be received.
| GuyandOlle is designated as a place Of reDdez-
vOus for the several companies as fast as they shall
| be organized, and where they may be further or
ganzCd into regiment, if not already done under
a previous call. The regiment will be inspected
and mustered into service by an officer or Off
| GERS Of the United States army, who will, in
every Gaze, be Instructed To receive no man who is
IN years, apparently over foriy-hye, or under egh-
teen, or who - not OF physical strength and vgor
To this end, the inspector will be accompanied by
medical officer Of the army, and the volunteers will
he submitted TO his examination IL is respectfully
| suggested that public notice Of these requirements
will prevent much disappointment 10 the jealous
and patriotic ciuzens Of your State who may be dis
| posed TO volunteer.
By the enclosed copy Of an act authorizing the
President to call for volunteers, It will be perceived
| that all the held and company officers with volun-
teeTs taken into the service Of the United States are
| 10 be appointed and commissioned, or such as have
| been appointed and commissioned, in accordance
with the laws Of the State whence they are TAKEN
and ! would suggest the extreme importance to the
public service, that the officers for the above regi
ment be judiciousy selected.
BY the act Of Congress above referred TO, il will
! also be seen that the terms Of service are for
"tweve months, or to the end Of the war unles.
| sooner discharged" and il may be that the regi.
ments which have been enrolled in your State, and
are now in readiness to enter the service, may re-
gard this offer as made with reference to the former
period. Should this be so, your excellency will
cause them to be informed that the engagement re.
qured by this requs,tion Is TO the end Of the war
with Mexico, unless sooner discharged; and on this
condition only will their services be required. With
this understanding, one Of those regiments Ito be
selected by your excellency) will be accepted II
the modification suggested should not be acceptable
TO any Of those regiments which have rendered their
services you respectfully requested to proceed
without delay, to enrol and organize one in fulfil,
ment Of this requisiton.
1t may be proper to remark, that the law provides
for the clothing lin money! and subsistence of the
noD-commssoned officers, musicians, and privstes
Of volunteers, who received into the service OF
the United States. In respect to clothing, the law
requires that the volunteers shall furnish their own
clothing; for which purpose it allows to each nom
commissioned officer, musician, and private, three
dollars and fifty cents per month during the
time he shall be in the service of the United
States. In order that the volunteers who shall
be mustered into service under this Tequis
ton, may be enabled to provide themselves with
good and sufficient clothing, the communication al
lowance for six months (twenty-one dollsrs,) will
be advanced TO each non-commlssloned officer, mu-
stefan, and private, after being mustered into ser
vice, but only with the express condition that the
volunteer has already furnished himself with six
months clothing; this fact TO be certified 10 the pay
master by the captain Of the company; or that the
amount thus advanced shall be applied, under the
supervision Of his captain, 10 the object contem-
plated by law. In this latter case the advance COM
mutation for clothing will be paid on the captain q
certificate that he is satisfied it will be so applied.
In respect to subsistence before arriving at the
place Of rendezvous, and for travelling home from
the place Of discharge, the allowance is fifty cents for
| every twenty miles distance.
The President requests that you will be as prompt
as possible in the arrangement of this whole matter
in order that the volunteers may be ready for imme
diae service Officers of the quartermaster and sub.
| sistence departments will be Immediately ordered
the place of rendezvous with funds to defray the
necessary expenses which may be incurred.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
w. l.. MARCY,
Secretary Of War.
To his excellency WIN. SMITH,
Governor of Virginia