The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-07-21
ssFOr One Hundred Days.''

The following instructions have been
issued by Gov. Curtin, to govern the
accepting and mastering into service Of
the one-hundred days militia
HEADQUARTERS PENNSYLVANIA MI
LITIA, HARRISBURG, July 5, 1861
General Orders No. 50-In response to a
call of the President of the United States
this day made, FOR twelve thousand militia
or volunteer infantry, to serve a6 Wash
ington and Its vicinity FOR one hundred
days, unless sooner discharged,
IT Is ORDERED:
/. Troops will be accepted by squads Or
companies, as hereafter indicated, and
will, as rapidly as possible, be formed into
companies and regiments.
Ii. Persons. proposing to organize COM
panies will be accepted under the follow
ing provisions, viz:
To be commissioned captain, the
applicant must have furnished forty (4O)
or more men, who have passed surgeons
examination, and been mustered into the
United States service.
To be commissioned first lieutenant,
from twenty-five (25) to forty (40) men
must have been furnished as above.
To be commissioned second lieutenant.
from fifteen (15) to twenty-five (25J men
must have been furnished as above.
LII. Camps of rendezvous will be estab-
lished by the United States at Harrisburg,
Philadelphia and Pittsburg, in charge Of
which camps, commanders and skillful
surgeons will be appointed.
". Transportation will be furnished
on application, in person or by mail, to
Col. j. V. BomfoJd, U. S. A, superiu-
teudent of volunteer recruiting service at
Harrisburg, for the western district; or to
Major G. =. Gilbert, q. S. A., superin-
tendent of volunteer recruiting service at
Philadelphia, for the eastern district of
Pennsylvania, to the camp or camps OF
rendezvous, in their respective districts, to
whom report must be made.
V. Actual and necessary expenses for
boarding and lodging Of troops, raised
under this order, will be paid by the Uni
ted States disbursing officer, at the proper
post, for a period not exceeding fifteen
05) days, at a rate not exceeding forty
(40) cents per day for each man mustered
into the service of the United States, on
the affidavit of the officer furnishing the
the men, supported by the receipts of the
party to whom the money was paid
Names of the men, and the dates between
which each man was boarded and lodged,
must be stated in the accounts rendered.
VI. The troops will be organized ac-
cording to the general regulations of the
service, armed, clothed, paid, transported,
subsisted and supplied as other troops in
the United States service, and mustered
into the service of the United States by
regiments, as soon as filled to the mini
mum strength, the term of service to be
reckoned from the date cf muster into
the United States service.
VII. AS reward for meritorious con-
duct, and also to secure valuable expert
ence, appointments of field officers will be
made, except under peculiar circumstances,
from men who have been in service and
have been honorably discharged.
VIII. No bounty will be paid the troops,
nor will this service exempt exempt from
draft; 5ut if any officer or soldier in this
special service should be drafted, he will
be credited for the service rendered.
By order of A. G. CURTIN,
Governor and Commander-iu-Chief.
a. L. RUSSELL, Adj't Gen. Penn'a.