Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1847-03-18
From tho Washington Union Murch 10.
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 8.
ADJuTANT GENERALS OFFICE.
Washington, March 4, 1917.


]. The regiment authorized to be rails
ell under the act approved February H.,
lG47," will be recruited, armed, and
equipped tor active duty in the field with
out delay; and the several officers APP
pointed in each, will report for orders
and recruiting instructions to their respoc-
tive solonels, who will establish their re-
cruIIing head quarters al some central
position, and report to the Adjutunt Gen
era. Colonies ale charged with super
intending the recruiting Of their respec-
tive regiments, and will assign the Iieuen-
ant colonel and majors to such sub-recrui-
ting districts as may be found expedicnt.
When two or more companies are raised
and sent to any depot, or ordered to the
seat of war, a field officer should be as
signed to the command,
2. The established recruiting reguIa-
tons will be strictly observed by all Off
GERS, and the required returns, muster
aud descr ptive rolls, reports, &C.. will be
regularly made and transmitted though
the proper officer to the Adjutant General
and other chiefs Of staff, ia strict conform
ity with the rules of service, and the blanks
with whichlhey have been furnished. The
attention Of recruiting officers is specially
directed to the prompt rendition Of their
recruiting accounts, and abstract of con-
lingent expenses required for the second
auditor, and The colonel as superintendent,
which must be forwarded within three
days after the expiration of each month,
or scmj-monlhly, when called for, Each
recruiting officer will forward direct TO his
colonel duplicate OF the "Iri-monthIy re-
port" required for the Adiuiant Generals
oti1e.-See paragraphs al, so, 81 &c,
Revised Recruiting Regulations, 1913,
3, As soon as eighty men shall be en-
listed by a captain and two suballerns,
they will be inspected, organized, muster
ed, armed, and equipped as a company,
and be considered ready to take the field
The final assignment Of sUbaIlerns, and
the permanent designation Of companies
by tho letters OF the alphabet, will be
made by the colonel at the proper time
See paragraph 43, General Regulations
for the Army"
4. The attention ofrecruling officers
and commanders OF posts is directed to
paragraph 73S" General Regulations
Recruits must be drilled IN the school of
the soldier, as far as practicable, from the
moment of enlistment, even when there
may be no arms at the rendezvous, until
sent to join their companies or regiments.
5. The officers of The new regiments,
(nlan,ry and dragons, Twill furnish them
selves with the prescribed Infantry Tao
tics, (Scott's Syslem.) Cavalry Tactics
will not be furnished until the regiment is
supplied with horses, until which time,
the dragoon officers and men HlIl be well
drilled as foot soldiers.
6. The officers appointed. and the ten
companies to he recruited in the States Of
Maine, (4); New Hampshire, (2); Yer
mont y; Rhode Island, (D; and Con
nec,lcut, (2); will constitute "Ihe Ninth
Regiment of lnlantry," to be command
ed by Colonel
Headquarters established for the
present at Boston. Fort Constitution N. II.
aud Fort Adams, r. l., will be used as
recruiting depots for the regiment, and
the concentration Of companies, prepare
Tory to their immediate embarka,ion for
the seat of war.
7. The officers appointed, and the ten
companies of infantry to be recruited in
New York, u and New Jersey, (3) will
constitute "'lhe Tenth Regiment Of In
iantry," under Col Robert E Temple;
headquarters at New York, Forts lIamil-
ton and Lafayette will be :he receiving
depots for this reglment.
s, The officers appointed, and the ten
companies Of Infantry to be recruited in
Pennsylvania, 60 Delaware, q aud Viz
GINA, (3) will constitute "The Eleventh
Of Infantry" under Colonel
Albert G. Ramsey; Headquarters at Bal
timore. The companies Of infantry to be
raised in the interior of Pennsy wanna for
the regiment, will proceed to Point Isabel,
under their respective captains. via the
Ohio river, and embark at Pittsburg or
Wheeling, as may be most convenient;
and those recruited in Philade phia and
Delaware will rendezvous at Fort Milllin,
preparatory to immediate embarkaton for
the same point; the companies raised in
eastern Virginia will be sent to Fort
Monroe; those iii Western Virginia, via
the Ohio, to New Orleans, and thence to
Point Isabel, with the least practicable
delay, where the regiment will be con-
centrNted.
O. The officers appointed, and the ten
companies o. Infantry to be recruited in
North Carolina, (2) South Carolina, (2)
Texas. (2) Arkansas, (2) and Missouri,
,2) will constitute tie Twelfth Regl-
nenl Of Infantry" under Co.. Louis d.
Wilson: Headquarters at New Orleans;
The companies to be raised in lS"rth and
South Carolina, will rendezvous at tort
S. c., preparatory to their it,
mediate departure for Point Isabel; and
he companies to be recruited in Texas,
Arkansas and Missouri, will proceed, as
,oon as organized, under their respective
via New Orleans, to Point lsa-
bel.
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