Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-03

Musicians.
Wagner.
50 Privates
l0l Aggregate.
The commissioned officers Of the company will
be appointed by the Governor of the State, and
the non-commssioned officers, until the company
shall be embodied in Regiment, will be appoint
edby the Captain; afterwards by the Colonel, on
the recommendation OF the Captain.
Each Regiment will be organized as follows:
l,0l0 company officers and enlisted men.
/ Colonel.
l Lieutenant Colonel.
Major.
l Adjutant Ia Leutenant.)
Regimental Quartermaster,( "a Lieutenant.)
Assistant Surgeon.
/ Sergeant Major.
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant.
Regimental Commissary Sergeant.
l Hospital Steward.
2 Principal Musicians.
"a Musicians for Band.
1,046 Aggregate.
The field officers of the regimeat will be ap-
pointed by the Governor of the State.
The Adjutant and Regimental Quartermaster
will De selected by the Colonel, and will have the
rank of First Lieutenant They may be assigned
to companies at his pleasure.
The non commissioned staff will be selected by
the Colonel from the nOn-commssiOned officers
and privates of the regiment, and the vacancies
created will be filled by appointment, as is pre-
scribed above
Captains will Immediately report to this Office
the number in their respective companies, and
the time will require to recruit the full number
Companies desiring to enter this service will
report Immediately to this Office, file company
roll, and state when they can be ready for duty.
As soon as companies are reported full and
awaiting orders, they will be notified of the time
and place of rendezvous.
Companies will not be permitted to march to
the rendezvous without positive orders from the
Adjutant General.
The companies heretofore reported from the
First, Second and Third Congressional Districts
will be assigned to the regiments to be formed in
said districts, and until said regiments are full,
no companies formed therein will be permitted to
join other regiments.
The several companies forming the three regi-
ments to be raised under Messrs. Brown, McNil
len and Meledth, will be reported by them to the
Adjutant General completed, and
await orders before marching
Captains of companies which have been ten
dered for service in the Adjutant Generals office,
and whose companies have joined may join
either of the above regiments, are ordered to re
port Immediately so that the companies next in
order may be called.
THE CAVALRY.
The regiment of cavalry authorized by Special
Order No > issued June 10Th, 1861 for the Or
ganization of regiment of cavalry in the counties
bordering on the Ohio river, will be organized for
the United States service for three years, unless
sooner discharged, and that order is modified ac-
cordingly.
A. MEMORANDUM.
The officers, commissioned officers, and
oIN~..o
respects, be placed on the footing, as to pay and
allowances, OF similar corps of the regular Army:
Prorided, That their allowances for clothing
shall be SO so per month, and that each non
commissioned officer, private, musician. and arti-
fcer of Cavalry shall furnis his own horse and
horse equipments, and shall receive 40 cents per
day for their use and risk, except that, in case
the horse shall become disabled, or shall die, the
allowance shall cease until the disability be re-
moved, or another horse be supplied. Every
| Cavalry Volunteer, who shall not keep himself
| provided with serviceable horse, shall serve on
| foot.
Every volunteer, non-commssioned officer, pri-
vate, musician and artifcer, who enters the SER
vice of the United States under this plan, shall
be paid at the rate of so cents, and if a cavalry
volunteer, 25 cents additional in lieu of forage
for every 20 miles of travel from his home to the
| place of muster-the distance to be measured by
the shortest usually travelled route-and when
honorably discharged, an allowance at the same
rate, from the place of his discharge to his home
and in addition thereto, the sum of one hundred
dollars.
Any volunteer who may be received into the
service of the United States under this plan, and
i who NAV be wounded or otherwise disabled in
the service shall be entitled to the benefits which
have been or may be conferred on persons disa
bed in the regular service; and the legal heirs o.
such as die or may be killed in service, in addition
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the sum of one hundred dollars.
The Bands of the Regiments of Infantry anC
of the Regiments of Cavalry will be paid as fol
lows: one-fourth of each will receive the pay ant
allowances of Sergeants of Engineer soldiers
one-fourth those of Corporals of Engineer sol
diers; and the remaining half those OF privates o
Engineer soldiers of the lst class.
The Wagoners and Saddlers will receive th
pay and allowance of Corporals of Cavalry.
The Regmental Commssary Sergeant will re
ceve the pay and allowances of n Regimenta
Sergeant Major. The Company Quartermaste
Sergeant, the pay and allowances of a Sergean
of Cavalry.
There will be allowed to each Regiment on
Chaplain, who will be appointed by the Regimen
tai Commander on the vote of the Field Officer
and Company Commanders, ON duty with tn
Regiment at the time the appointment is to b
made. The Chaplain appointed must be
regularly ordained Minister of some Christia
denomination, and will receive the pay and al
lowances of Captain of Cavalry.
5. PROMOTION FROM THE RANKS.
Two-thirds of the Company Officers of tn
Regiments to be raised under this plan will b
appointed at the commencement of the organiza
ton OF each Regiment and the remaining one
third when the regiment shall have its full com
pement of men, will be appointed from the rank:
. to be taken from among the Sergeants OH tn
Recommendation of the Colonel of the Regiment
approved by the General commanding the Br
gade.
After the completion of the organization of
Q regiment of cavalry or infantry, one half of a
, the vacancies which may occurin the lowest grad
of commissioned officers, by promotion or otheI
wise. will be appointed as above, from the ranks
Corporals will be taken from the priva,es; SeI
geants from Corporals.
4 The First Sergeant will be taken from tn
other Sergeants of the company by the captain
3 The regimental non-commissoned staff will
appointed from the Sergeants of the regiment
the Colonel