The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-07-31
Military Orders.
STATE OF lowe, AJD'r GxS'L's OFricE, ]
CLINTON June 9sth, 1862.

regiments in the United States service,
who are absent from their regiments, the
following General Orders, No. 81, from
the War Department, is promulgated
BY order Of the Commander.iu. Chief,
N. B. BAKER,
Adjt Gen. Of Iowa.
WAN DEPARTMENT, ADJ'r GEN'Ls OFrcEI
WASHINGTON, June 7th, 1861.
General Orders No 81.
The great number Of officers absen.
from their regiments without sufficient
cause, is a serious evil which calls for
immediate correction. BY paragraph l7T,
General Regulations, the power Of con-
manding officers to grant leave Of absence
is limited to "timc Of peace" In time
OF war, leave Of absence will be granted
only by the Secretary of War, except
when the certificate Of medical officer
shall show beyond doubt that change of
location "is necessary to save life or to
prevent permanent disability" (Para-
graph 1856, General Regula.ions.) In
such case, the commander Of an army,
department, or district, may grant not
exceeding twenty days. At the expira
ton Of that time, if the officer BE not able
to trarel, he must make application to the
Adjutant General of the army for an ex
tension, accompanied by the certificate of
medical officer Of the army, IN the usual
form, and that he is not able to travel
If it be not practicable to procure such a
| certificate, in consequence of their being
no army physician in the place where the
officer resides, the certificate of citizen
physician, attestcd by cipH Magistrate,
may be substituted.
All officers Of the regulars and yolun.
teers, except those on parole, now absent
from duty with leave, will be considered
'absent without leave" paragraph 1925
General Regulations) unless they arc
found at their posts within fifteen days
from the date Of this order, or are author
ICED by orders from the Adjutant Gener-
al to be absent, which orders will in all
cases be based upon certificate as above
described, ard must be exhibited to the
paymaster before payment is made to
them.
All invalid and wounded officers wi
are able to travel, although their disabili-
ty may not have been removed (paragrarh
ls7 General Regulations) will repair,
without delay-thosc from the east to
Annapolis, to report to the General Com.
mauding the Camp of Instruction; those
from the west to report to the commaad-
ing officers Of Camp Chase, Ohio. At
these points they will remain until able to
proceed to their regiments, or until an
examining board may decide adversely on
their ability to return TO duty within a
reasonable time, and orders may be given
by the President for their discharge.
Their Exccllencics, the Governors Of
the States, are requested to make known
this order, and to contribute to its exc
cutiou, as may be in their power. Mus
tering and Recruiting officers are
directed to do the same. Extra copies
will be furnished them for distribution.
Failure to comply with the above reg
ulations will be reported to the Adjntans
General by Regimental Commander,
BY order Of the Secretary of War.
J. THOMAS,
Adjutant General
WAsHINGToN, July 2l.
The accounts brought by the Presi-
dental party from the headquarters OF
the Army Of the Potomac, give cheer
ing view Of the position of things in
that vicinity.
1t is represented that our entire losscs
in the several battles, will not exceed in
killed, wounded and missing, II 900
Stragglers are continually returning.
The loss of the enemy is no doubt ex-
ceedingly larger.
1t is understood that previous 10 the
battles before Richmond, Gen. Mcclellan
arranged with the rebel authorities for a
general exchange of prisoners, and that
Gen. Dix has been instructed to consunl.
mate the same under flag of truce.
In the House, to day, Mr. Hooper,
from the Committee on Ways and Means,
reported bill providing for a national
currency, secured by United States
stocks and for the circulation and re-
demption thereof The bill was recon-
mitted to the committee and ordered
printed.
VERY LUcID.-That valiant w.t. Or
pheus G. Kerr, of the Mackerel Brigade,
after describing fierce equestrian COM
bat between William Brown" Of the
United States of America, and Captain
"Munchausen," of the Southern Con-
federacy, closes as follows: 3" Ha !" says
"ViIlam," gazing severely at company
3, regiment 5, as it came pouring for
ward, "has tho Southern Confederacy
concluded to submit to the United States
of America p WHAT the answer was,
my boy, I am not allowed to say; but
you may rest satisfied that a thing has
been done which l am not permitted to
divulge; and should this lead, as hope
it will, to movement am not suffered
to make public, it cannot fail to resul;
in consummation which I am forbid
den to make known. But if, on the other
hand, the strategic movement which ]
am not at liberty to describe should be
followed by stroke l am restrained from
explaining, you will find the effect it
would not be judicious in me to set forth
will produce a consequence which the
War Department denies me the privilege
of developing.
NJ Somebody says that the Southern
Confederacy may now be bounded as fol-
lows: On the north by Mcclellan and
Halleck on the east by Burnside and
Hunter on the South by Fort Pickens
and the Gulf Souadron and on the west