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MILITARY PROGRAMME ron TIE WNTER,--
The following General Order, issued BY General
ROsocrans, will be found mot only interesting to
military men, but aIsO 10 their friends: 81
HEApoUAErrRs DEP'T wEsrERN vIRgrUA,l
WHRnLiEo, Va, December II, 1861.
GENtRAB oRDHRs NO. 10.
I. The Headquarters Of tbs Department Of
Western Virginia will, until further orders, be
wheeling, Virginia.
II. The Ssff Of the Department having
been considerably changed since the last order
announcing II, the following list beiog that Of
the staff ns IL new stands, is published for the
Information Of the Department, vis '-
SecOsd Lieutenant VIM, r. Ne 1hesney, Sec
oDd Reg't Ky. VOL, AID de oSmp.
Captain Geo. L. Hsrtsuf, Assistant Adjutant-
General, U. s. A, Chief Of the staff.
CsptNin Henry Tbrall, Assistant Adjutant-
Gere'al, Volunteers.
Judge Advocate. ....
Major S. W. Crawford, Thirteenth Infantry
U. 8 A., Acting Inspector General,
Msior r e. oIary, Qusrtsrmaster U. S. A.,
Chief Quattefmaster.
Captain Jno G. Chandler, Assistant Quarter.
master, U. S A.
Captain @. N. GOulding, Assistant Quarter
master, Volunteers.
Captain Jno. W. Barriger, Commissary Of
Spbsistepcs U. S. A., Chief UOm missaty.
Assistant Surgeon q. Il. Wir.z, U. S. A,
Medical Director.
Major D. H. McPhail, Volunteers, Chief
Paymaster
ooptain W. F. Reynolds, U. S. TOpOgrsph.
ical Epeinesrs.
Nsjor Joseph Dsrr, jr,, Fist Reg't Cavalry,
w. Vol, Provost Marshal.
III, Officers must heTea ter observe the reg
ulatiops strictly in the matter of ofisisl CORE.
spopdenoe. No officer in the Department is
authorized by regulations to address the Gen.
| efal Commanding in person, in an offioial COM
| mupicatiop. Orders and directions have been
| repeatedly given concerning this. The chief
| of tsch department will be addressed on mat
ters connected with his own department. On
ali general subjects, ana in cases where there
may be = doubt in the mind Of the officer, as to
the proper department his communication be.
longs 70, it will be addressed to the Assistant
| Adjutant- General. Hereafter, official commu-
niostions violating this order, will, except in
| extreme and urgent cases, be sent back for cor
reciOn to the officer sending them.
". All applications, such ss for leaves OF
absence, &c viii be addressed on the inside to
the authority, whose action is final, aud bs sent
through all intermediate commanders for thelr
! inform alton and iDdorsement.
v. The ordsr from the War Department, re-
speetipg the use Of the telegraph, must be rig.
idly observed. No messages will be sent by
telegraph, except sRch as in the ordinary course
Of lbe mail could rot reach their destina ion in
tine 10 be acted upon without dettiment to the
ruaiic service, and officers will be carefdl, by
toeIy attention 10 their duties, to prevent such
4 peuessity. The cost Of messages ssnt in viola
tion Of this order will be charged to the Officer
sending them.
VI. No pertou, not commissioned nor on
listed, is entitled, or will be permitted, to veal
the uniform of the service or military badgeI
belong ngiDg to it. Chiefs of departments and Of
ioers who have civilians in their employ will b
responsible for the enforcement Of this order.
VII. A book will be kept a. the Office OF thI
Assistant Adjntapt General in which all ofHcer
of the department arriving at headquarters
from whatsoever cause, are required to registe
their rames and the authority for their absenc'
from their posts. Officers neglechng to do thi
will be charged with disobedieuce Of orders
VIII. No officer in the department has au
thoIity to order or grant permission to person
to leave tho department, except the Genera
Commanding, and no person will be permittst
to come to headquarters for the translation o
business which can be transacted from thei
posts by mail or telegraph.
TX. Notwithstanding repeated and minub
instructions respecting the discharge Of soldiers
on certifcats of disability, papers continue T.
be improperly made out, resulting always in in
conv nvenience, and eperaily in positive iDjusto
| 10 ING SOluleEs buo SVlVA0E
account with the Government, the articles O
clothing he has received should be stated, an
whether from the State or the United States
with the price of each, when it is known, an
a statement as to whether the soldier has re
ceived the allowance of So so per month 70
clothing.
X. No officer in the department has power
authorize the discharge of soldiers for an
cause, except the General Commanding; an
no discharges except those authorized by hir
are valid, or will bs recognized by Q lartsrmGs
teIs or PSymasters in this department.
XI. The practice of officers leaving thei
companies without authority, for the purpos
of procuring their pay, in many instances with
out having made out their muster rolls to pre-
vide for the pay Of their companies, is exceed
: ipgIy rtprehensible aud must be discontinued
: Paymasters will not pay officers absent fro
their companies or duties, except on authoriI
!. from the General Commanding,
XII. Commanding officers will see that th
: order is carefully distributed to officers al
!. published before the troops until every sOldi
, shall have become acquainted with it.
I By command of BriRadier. General r osecran
GEO. L. HARTsUFF,