Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-06
CIRCULAR.
HEADQUARTERS, FIRsE AMY CoaPS,

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cent order of the War Department, must
make application in writing to the Adjutant
General of the army, Washington, D. o.,
| setting forth their present address, the date
, and rank of their original entry into the
service, the regimental organizations in
which they have served, the date and causes
of their discharge, their rank at the time
, they were mustered out of service, and, if
they think proper, adding military recon-
J mendstiOns from their former commanders.
Il Applicants must have been two years in
the service, have been honorably discharg-
ed, and be physically qualified. Their mil
itary record will be examined in the Adju-
tant Generals Office, whence it will be re-
ferred to Major General Hancock, for the
purpose of Rscertaining their fitness for the
positions to which they desire to be ap-
pointed. A board of officers will probably
be convened for that purpose. After pass
ing examination, officers will receive ap-
Pointments, and they may then be required
to proceed at once to raise veterans under
the order. When a sufficient number has
been received and mustered in, the officer
will also be mustered in, to rank from the
date of his original appointment. By or
der of, Major General HANCOCK,
FINLEY ANDERSON, Asst. Adj. Gen.
AS has been already explained in the or.
der of Captain Hudson, published in our
columns, all soldiers enlisted in the above
corps will be entitled, Immediately on en-
listment, to three hundred dollars bounty
paid down. Those who have been in the
service for two years do not need to be
told by us that the corps, from the very
nature of its organization, is intended to
be corps of honor. 1t will have for its
head the most brilliant and successful
corps commander of the Army of the Pc.
tomac-Maj. Gen. Hancock. The idea of
organizing such body of true and tried
soldiery is borrowed from the French, who
had their Legions of Honor to which no
man could belong who had not in his pos
session certificate of vslor won on one or
more hotly contested fields. The French,
however, never accompanied their enlist
ments into their Iegions of honor with
bounty such as the government of the
United States offers to those who have the
necessary qualifications for membership in
Hancock's corps. No nation ever before
dreamed of paying such premium to an
approved candidate for admission into a
corps Of honor. The United States, e1-
ceiling all other nations as she does in all
other particulars, excels them also in the
magni6cence of her generosities toward
her soldiers, Not only her honors but her
bounties are strewn more Profusely than
ever were honors or bounties before
She confers with lavish hand. Well may
+ not only her citizens but her soldiers feel
proud of her,
In this State we have many men who
3 would be priced by such a soldier as Han
{ cock as comrades-men who like himself
: have been in many battles and have honor.
1 able testimony of valor. OF all others
T these are the men he desires for his body OF
chosen veterans. What then is our duty
D in relation to these menu Clearly, tits tc
a encourage what must be the natural promp.
: ting of many of them to return again &c
8 the excitement of the field. We will have
9 quotas to fill under the expected call of the
IS President, in each county. Why not com
n rnence to work now, here in Ohio county
II and elsewhere2 Why not offer bounty
y of fifty dollars in addition to that offered
Il by the government to those who are eligi
/. BILE to membership in Hsucock's corps 2 1
% we wait until the call comes for new re-
g cruits We shall be obliged to offer larger
n bounties for men who have neither the
3, claims or the merits of our honorabIy dis
= charged soldiers. 1t is a question: fnan.
p cial question-how far the county can &c
8. an other time in the way of bounties.-
e There are those who say that her ultimate
t, has already been reached. We do not agree
.- with such. But still it is plain, as Mr.. Lin.
coin has told US, that small dabt is easier
n paid than large one; and as it is alto.
If gether probable that we will all have to
= go into the bounty business soon again,
/ why not commence now, when a small
IS sum added to the large bounty of the
}, Government, will go as far as a larger
. local sum without any Government boun-
;. tyr The Government of course will
It pay no bounty to raw recruits, but the
Q counties throughout the country will be
obliged to pay two or three hundred dol
lars per man. Many of those who have
served two years will go into Hancock's
t corps without waiting for other bounty
than that paid by the Government II this,
or any other county, we're to pay mode
( rate sum per man, all snch persons would
, avail themselves of it as so much extra
pay and enter themselves to our credit.
We throw out these suggestions to-day
as worthy of confederation from those who
: are always expected to move in such mat
l tiers We shall have more to say on it
again. If We have.any inclination at all
10 act in the matter we must not delay it
long.