The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-23


Each company will select Captain, First |
and Second Lieutenants, who will be commits |
stoned by the Governor, unless good reasons |
exist for refusing. The noR-commissioned |
officers, prior to the regimental organization, |
will be appointed by the Captain, afterward by |
the Colonel on the recommendation of the |
Captain.
Zach regiment win be organized as follows; |
10 Companies, Chaplain,
L Colonel, Sergeant Msjor,
I Lieut. tolonei | Reglmental olartermAs-
/ Major, ter Sergeant,
l Aajutant / RegimeniaI Commissary
Rekiuental QuArtermas Sergeant,
ter, Hospital Sergeant,
/ Surgeon, Principal Musicians
Resistant Surgeon,
Field officers of the regiment will be APP
pointed by the Governor of the State.
The Adiutant and Regimental Quartermas-
ter will be appointed by The Governor, with
the rank of Fnst Lieutenants.
The non-commssioned staff will be selected
by the Colonel from the non commissioned of
hcers and privates of the regiment, and va
eaDcies so created will be filled by appointment
as prescribed above.
Any company of forty-two men will be ac-
cepted and mustered with first Lieutenant,
and, if they TAIL to complete the organization
within reasonable or prescribed time, they
will be consolidated with other parts of COM
panies.
Articles of enlistment will be furnished re-
cruiting officers. These lists will be made out
| in triplicate, one copy of which will be fled
with the Regimental Adjatant, one retained
| by the recruiting officer, and the other for
warded to this efice. Returns must be made
to this Office of the name and residence of each
recruit, on the lst, 10th, and goth of each
| month, by all recruiting officers and persons
| engaged in enlisting troops in this State, ex-
| cept officers detailed to recruit for regiments
/ inf ha faId w n a nd orders
port TO the State Superintendent of the Re-
eruiting Service at Springfield.
| Every pzecaution should be urged to prevent
| the enlistment of persons unit for service from
| physical debility, or minors under eighteen
years of are The written consent of the pa
| rents or guardians of minors between ighteen
ami twenty-one years of age must be in every
| case, when practicable, obtained; and any OF
/ fcer who shall enlist recruit whe on medical
examination snail be rejected as obviously I'M
lit for duty at the time of enlistment will be
liable for all expenses of such enlistment.
To facilitate the rapid and conven ent orga-
| nization of companies and regiments, camps
for temporary rendezvous are hereby estab-
lished at the following places, to wit:
At Rockford, Winnebago county, for Lake,
| McHenry, Boone, Winnebago, Ogle, Carroll
| Stephenson and Joe Davies counties.
At Dixon, Lee county, for Cook, Rock Is
land, DeKalb, DuPage, Lee, Whitesido and
Kane counties.
At Kankakee, kankakee county, for Will,
Kendall, Livingston, Dewitt, IroquOis, Put
nam, Kankakee Champaign, Ford, Grundy
and Mclean counties.
At Peoria, Peoria county, for Mason, War
ren, Fulton, PEORIA Henry, Knox, Marshall
Mercer, Bureau, Lasalle, Stark, Treadwell and
Woodford counties.
At Quincy, Adams county, for Pike, Schuy-
Ter, Hancock, Brown, Henderson, McDonough,
Adams and Calhoun counties.
At Springfield, Sangamon county, for Shell
by, Cass, Christian, SangamOn, Scott, Maccu-
pin, Green, Morgan, Jersey, Montgomery,
Logan and Menard counties.
At NATION, Coles county, for Platt, Clay,
Douglas, Macon, Moultrie, Jasper, Edgar,
Cumberland, Clark, Fayette, Coles, VermilIGn
and Crawford counties.
At Centralia, Marion county, for Jefferson,
Monroe, Washington, Madison, Clinton, st.
Clair, Bond, Wayne, Randolph, Lawrence,
bingham, Richland and Marion counties.
At Anna Union county, for Pulaski, White,
Alexander, Edwards, Pope, Hamilton, Massac,
Franklin, Hardin, Williamson, johnson, Sa-
line, Perry, Union, Gallatin, jackson and
Wabash counties.
Regiments heretofore authorized and now
organizing will recruit from the State at large,
and rendezvous at Camp Butler or Camp Dou-
glas, as may be most convenient.
The general camps of instruction at Chicago
and Springfield are continued. To these gen
sral camps all regiments, companies, or parts
of companies, recruited in the temporary camps
or elsewhere, will be required to report at the
earliest day practicable the objects of said tenn
pUrary camps being to facilitate recruiting,
while the general camps are designed for or
ganization and instruction.
Companies which may be organized in the
counties of Cook, Lake, DuPage, Kane and
WILL can rendezvous at Chicago if preferred.
Clothing, arms etc, will be furnished vOlun-
teers on their arrivals at the camps of reLdez-
vous, and after they have been mustered into
service.
A competent officer will be designated to
have command of volunteers at each camp, but
he will have no special claims to promotion to
any field office.
Recruiting officers will be entitled to a sum
not exceeding forty (40) Gems per day for sub
sistence and lodging for each recruit from date
of bona tide enlistment to his arrival at camp.
He will also be entitled to transportation for
himself and recruits to place of rendezvous.
Application for such transportation should be
made to Capt. John Christopher, Chicago, or
Lieut.. George w. Hill, at Springfield.
Great diligence is enjoined upon the recruit
ing officers, and they are specially notified that
any abuse of transportation furnished them
ygilI cause revocation of their orders.
Premiums to Recruits.
A premium of two dollars to be paid to each
accepted recruit.
One Month's Pay In Advance.
Every volunteer who enlists for three years
or during the war, shall receive his first
months pay thirteen dollars in advance
upon the mastering of his company into the
service of the United States.
Twenty Ave Dollars Bounty In Advance
Every volunteer shall, in addition, receive
twenty-f collars of the one hundred dollars
bounty provided by law, TO be paid him i'm
InediatelY unon the muster of such regiment