The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-07-09
STATE OF MAINE.
HEAD QUARTERS.
ApJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
AUGUSTA, July S, 1862.
GENERAI nDnEDs

AUGUSTA. July S. 1862.
GENERAL ORDERS. No. ls.
In pursuance of requisifon and authority from the
PRESIDENT OF the United States, the Governor and
Commander-in-C Chief orders and directs
lst-That two additional Volunteer Regiments of
Infantry for the service of the be raised
and organized forthwith. The Seventeenth will rem
devious at Portland and the Eighteenth at Bangor
The exigency of the occasion is such that the utmost
expedition and vigilance is required.
2d-W hereas the unuBiiormed Militia of this State
constituted as provided by chapter ten of the Revised
Statutes and Subsequent subject active duty
Tin of Instruction. war; INVASION or to prevent
INVASION or TO be mustered into The service OF The
United States. upon a requison made upon the Cow
ernor and Cominandcr-n-Chief by the President of
the United States by virtue of the Constitution and
Acts OF Congress-, ard the exigency having arisen,
when the Governor and Commander in Chief is au-
,nof7ed ana required 70 call the said nnuniformed
Militia, portion thereof into actual service; II is
ordered that the Major General of each Division in
this state take measures forthwith for the organi-
ration of al the Companies of Infantry from the en-
rolled, unnniformed Militia Of his command, by the
issue of orders forthwith to the Orderly Sergeanfs of
such companies TO call out their companies without
delay for the elections of officers returns whereof
TO be made TO the Adjutan General forthwith Affer
the receipt of such returns, orders will be promuva-
ted for the organization of two regiments of Militia
In each division. TO be formed and constituted from
said companies by detachment detail. II Is ex-
peced that this duty of calling out companies and
elec'ing off GERS thereof. will be performed in
the shortest possible time after the receipt of this
der.
3d-An the members of the ununformcd Militia
viii be relieved from service under this Order upon
enlisiiDg in either OF the regiments of Maine volun-
teers already in the field being raised for the
service of the United States. in which each will
receive premium of two dollars, months adj
vance paw. and bounty Of twenty-five dollars in adj
vance. To those who join regiment already in the
field, the advance pay aud bounty will be made each
upon his muster individually into the service If he
joins regiment, he win receive his advance pay
upon tho muster of his company into the service and
his advance bounty upon the mastering of his regi.
ment, making the total amount which he will have
received upon the muster-in Of his regiment, Forty
Dollars.
In addition TO the foregoing, at the expiration of
his term of enlistment, or upon his honorable dis
charge from service. he will receive further cash
bounty of seventy dollars which, in the event of
his death, is PAYABLE 10 his family.
Recruiting agents will receive authority in writing
from the Adjutant General. and such other persons
may hereafter be designated.
By order of the COMMANDMENT Chief
JOHN L. HoDSDON,
d&wtf Adjutant General.