Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1861-09-05
IMPORTANT TO OHIO VOLUNTEERS.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.
HEADoUARrERs. OHIo MILIrIA, ,
ADJuTAxr GEEERAL's OFFICE,
COLUMBUS, Aug. 81, 1861. J
eENERAL oRpER DO. 81

ADJurASr GEsERAL's OFFIcE,
COLUMBUS. Aug. 81. 1861.
GENERAL ORDER 30. 81.
Great injury is done to the recruiting
service in Ohio by the attempts Of un-
authorized parties to enlist volunteers.
This injury is augmented by the efforts
Of those who are duly authorized to
raise too many companies in the same
neighborhood.
The result is that many fractions Of
companies are formed and none COM
pleted; competition becomes violent.
angry feelings excited until the strife
ends in entire and permanent demorali-
zation. All good citizens are invoked
to prevent this disastrous competition,
and exert their influence TO harmonize
and consolidate into full and effective
companies all the patriotic men dis
posed to serve their country.
No company that is not enlisted un-
der a proper letter OF authority will
be received into camp nor its officers
commissioned.
Immediate information Of all unau-
thorized proceedings Of this kind is
earnestly solicited, with the names Of
the parties and the facts in the case.
No one will be authorized to enlist
companies of volunteers without pro-
ducing evidence of good moral charac-
ter; and all letters heretofore issued will
be considered as cancelled on the ex-
piration OF the time to which they are
| limited.
This department desires it tc be ex-
pressly understood, that after COM
pany is formed, and before it is muster
ed into the service. the members will
have an opportunity indicating theil
choice of officers, and the choice will
in all ordinary cases, be approved by
1 the Governor OF the State.
For the information and encourage
ment OF those who desire to enlist, the
following conditions OF the service are
made known:
All volunteers will be disbanded al
/ the close Of the war. During service
an allowance of 50 so per month is
made for clothing, and that which is
supplied by the Government is of the
most durable kind, and at the Lowest
wholesale prices. Mounted men car
furnish their own horses and equipment:
and receive forty cents per day for the
use and risk, or the Government will
furnish them, il desired.
Every volunteer who may be wound
ed or otherwise disabled in the service
/ will be entitled to the same benefits a:
are or may be conferred on persons in
the regular service. The widow, oil
legal heirs of such as die or are killed
/ in the service, will receive their pay
I and allowances due, and the sum oI
one hundred dollars in addition. Those
enlisted men who serve for two year:
or during the war are entitled when
discharged, 10 bounty of one hundred
dollars.
Camps Of rendezvous are established
in various parts of the State, under the
command. usually, of the Colonies oI
the regiment there organizing. Per-
sons may proceed singly or in squads,
il they choose, to any of these camps
and select the company they prefer to
Join, or unite with companies already
forming in their neighbOrhood for such
regiments as they may choose to go in
to. The Government provides trans
portation and subsistence after leaving
the place of enlistment.
No additional cavalry or artillery CON-
panies can be accepted at this time. but
there is pressing need Of all the infantry
companies that can be recruited.
By order Of the Commander-in- Chief.
C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Adjutant General.