Litchfield enquirer., 1864-08-25
GENERAL HEAD QUARTERS STATE oF
 CONNECTICUT,
ADJuTANT GENERALS OFFICE. Y Hartford, Aug. I6. 1S6A

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 Hartford, Aug. I6, 1884. [General Orders, No. 10.l
 l Pursuant to orders from the War Depaft.. ment, the Commander-in-C Chief directs that Volunteers for new Companies of Infantry. bs accepted and mustered into seryice.
 II. The period of enlistment shall be for one: two, or three yeaFs as each volunteer shall elect.
 TIT. Any person may recruit men for S usv company under these orders, and if he shall succeed in raising thsrty men, he shall be snti. tied to receive commission as Second Lieu. tenant; if azty men. as First Lieutenant; if nmsfy men as Captan-prouidca, his character and abilities shall be such as to meet the a6. proval of the Commander-in Chief.
 ". Recruits will be delivered at the ofice of the Provost Marshal of any Congressional District, and be mustered into service, for. warded.to the General Rendezvous at New Is- ven, and there provided with quarters and subsistence until snch time as the particular Company for which they enlisted, shall be or. ganized.
 V. If the several Companies which may be authorized under these orders. are not filled up bv the fifth of September. the parts of Com. panies then mustered in will be consolidated, and the Officers thereof re- elected and appoint. ed by he-Cn,e r>Ax>Ss. i.. faJlieI from among those who have enlisted the men--prefersnce being given to those who have enlisted the. } largest number.
 VI. The several Companies mustered into service will be organized into new Regiments q. ? or attached to old organizations now in tn q field, as may be determined by the Comman- der n-Chief.
 VII For compensation for their services. and the expenses of recruiting, all persons who shall enlist men for these organizations shall be entitled to receive for each Volunteer, delivered at the office of the Provost Marshal, accepted and mustered into service, the sum Eof ten dollars ($lO)
 + VIII. Every Volunteer enlisted under these orders will be entitled to receive from the United States in addition to the regular pay and allowance as bounty, as follows:
 If enlisted for one year. .$T00' |. /, two ............2OO '' three ". "........... 800 one third of such bounty to be paid at the which he enlisted one third at the expiration of his term of service. Hesp
 TX. He shall be paid by the State. lst. If enlisted for one year, S100
 <" " |. ' two years, 200
 to be paid when he shall have been muss
 tered into service and credited to Con-
 necticut and to the town where he is en.
 rolled or has his residence.
 M The sum of thirty dollars per year,. or at that rate for any fraction of year
 that he shall serve, ten dollars of which shall be~ paid when Re is Eaustered into service of the United States. and ten dol
 lars at the end of each successive four
 months thereafter
 X. There shall also De paid from the Treas. Fu y of this State for the support and maints- nance of his family. the sum of six dollars per month for the wife if any there be-. and two dollars per month for each child under four teen years of age; and in case there shall be @ child or children and no wife, then the sum of six dollars per month for tie younger child,. and two dollars per month for each additionaE child under fourteen years of age, provided the amount paid for any one family, shall not in the aggregate exceed the sum of ten dOllars per month.
 Should he Bedisabled in service, this pay. ment to his family shall continue so long as his disability shall exist, and if he shall die, this payment will continue during his term of service, unless the company to which hs be- longed shall be sooner discharged.
 RI. All persons enlisting men under these orders. will make dGily reports to these head. quarters of the names of all volunteers enlist. ed by them, and the Provost Marshal's Ofic at which delivered.
 By order of his Excellency,
 WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM, Governor and Commanders in Chief.
 HORACE J. MoRss; Adj. Gen. 19tl