Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-03
ORDER (RxFRAcrs.)

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ORDER (ExTRAcTs)
| LIST. The Department OF the MOnOugahela will en-
brace that porti9n CT the State of PeansylTanra
| West of JohnstoSn, and the Laurel Hill range
| of mountains and the Counties of Hancock
Brooke aud Ohio In the State OF Virginia, AID the
Counties of COlumbIana, Jefferson and Belmont, In
| Brigadier General william T. H. Brooks is assigned
to the command Of this Department, Headquarters
! at Pittsburgh.
2nd A Department Army Corps of YOlun eers,
Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry, to be designated
| the Army Corps of the Monongahela, will he en-
rolled aud organized In accordance with regulatiOns
of o. s. Service for the protection aud def nse OF
public property within that Department, and will
be mustered into the service OF the states 70
| serve during the pleasure Of the President or the
The Company add Field Officers Of the Depart
, mental Orps will be Professionally commissioned by
the President. aF .gi.. tL
They will be armed, uniformed and equipped, and
while in active SERVICE subststed and supplied as
other troops Of the United States
Cavalry Volunteers may furnish their own horses,
to be turned over to the United States at the ap-
praised value, allowance will be made for the
time Of actual service Rt the rate authorized by law.
The Government will mount picked Cavalry to the
extent that horses eau be furnished.
The Department Corps will not be entitled to
bounty and cannot be paid until Cougress makes an
appropriation for that purpose.
3Td. Volunteers in the Departmental Corps, may,
at their own request, be transferred and mustered
into the service for three years during the war,
and upon such transfer and muster they will be al
lowed the pay and bounty authorized by the Act OF
Congress to Volunteers for three years or during
the war.
Volunteers in the Departmental Corps will re:
main subject to enrolment and draft for general
service.
The enlistment. recruiting, and organizing Of
Volunteers for three years darng the WAR In to
be stimulated and outraged the otcerS to be ap-
pointed and commissioned by the Governors OF the
respective States.
from the Departmental service to the three years
service must be reported to the Provost Marshal
General order that the respective States and Com
Gressoual Districts may receive appropriate credit
under the Enrolment Act Of Congress.
4th. All the troops with u this Department viii
be under tire comma nd of the General commanding
| the Department, with the usual Department staH'
9Th. The operations against the enemy are not to
he limited by the geographical lines OF the Depart
meut, but may extend to dlacent territory as in
the Judgment Of the Commanding General may be
expediGnt to resist OF pursue the enemy.
Volunteer Companies and Regiments organized
in plac. not within ths Department of the Monon-
| gahela may be attached for temporary service to
! the Army Corps of the MonougahCla and mustered
into service upon special application and order OF
the War Department..
By order of the President
| [signedl u; NJ. STANTON;
HEADQUARTERS DRP'r. OF THE MoSoNoAHELA,
PITTSBURGH, June 18th, 1868.
The undersigned hereby assumes command Of the
D :partment. s
The stan Of the Department will be announced in
All Communications Tor these Headquarters will
be directed to Assistant Adiutant General" Depart
-''1 W.T.. H. Brooks,
junlS st Major General.