The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-02-11
How Promotions arc TO bo Made IN Ohio
Regtments Hereafter.

How Promotions arc to Bo Made IN Ohio
Regiments Hereafter.
The system of promotions in Ohio
upon tho recommendation
of personal friends, without regard to
seniority, has been abandoned by the.
present Executive. He found that it
created bad feeling in the regiments,
leading to remonstrance and continu-
cd pickering, and that it threatened
decentralization. Governor Brough has
adopted, as will bo seen by the follow,
ing order of Adjutant General Cowen,
the strict military rule, making except
ions only in case of intemperance, leav-
ing any question of incompetency to
be scttled by military court after the
appointment II an officer is declared
to be incompetent, hc is dismissed
and the service is rid Of an inefficient
officer. This will increase the disei
pline Of tho army, and afford no cx-
cuse for complaint.
GEN'L HEADo'Rs, STATE OF ONO, J
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE, :
COLUMBUS, Feb. 6, 1864. }
GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 5.
Hereafter, all vacancies in establish.
cd regiments, battalion or indepen-
don't companies, will be filled by pro
motioa according to seniority iu the
regiment, battalion or Independent
company, e.Deept ia cases Of intemper.
dace.
Existing orders from the War De
partmcnt afford the necessary facul
ties for ridding the service of incompe.
tent or inefficient officers, by ordering
them before an Examining Board
which will relieve the Governor from
the disagroeable necessity Of deciding
the merits of an officer on the mere
opinion of the regimcntal or othcI
com mander.
Section 10 of an Act of Congress
approved July 22d, 1861, Genera
=, Orders, No. 49, Series of 1861 pro
vides as follows:
"That the General commanding
seperate department or detached arm,
is hereby authorized to appoint mil
itary board or commission of not les
than three nor more than five officers
whose duty it shall be to examine th
capacity, qualifications, propricty Q
conduct and efficiency Of any commits
stoned officer of volunteers within hi
department or the army, who may b
reported to the board or commission
; and upon such report, if adverse t
such officer, and if approved by tn
President of the United States, tn
commission of such officer shall be va
Gated: Provided, al,oays, that no off
Ger shall be eligible to sit on sue
board or commission, whose rank. o
promotion would in any way be effect
ed by its proceedings, and two mem
bers, at least, il practicable, shall b
Of equal rank of the officer examin
ed"
No officer shall be deprived of hi
right to promotion on tho mere expires
) sion of his commanding officer, that h
: is not competent to discharge the du
0 tics Of the position to which his senior
, ity entities him.
In the case of promotions Of SCI
: gcants the same rule will govern, an
. for this reason commanding officer
5 of regiments and other organization
: will give careful attention to the ap
pointment of non n-commissionod off
GERS, that none but competent, prop
y or and efficient men shall be brough
i into the line of promotion.
|. Officers who seek to bo detailed 0
q duty which detaches them from thei
commands, will be considered out {
the line of promotion during their al
; sense on such detached service. Nc
A tico of such detail must be furnishe
|, this Department, and also notice {
= tho timo they are returned to thei
commands.
Commanding officers must prompI
: ly dclivo, all commissions to the pal
o ties for whom they are intended.
+ By order. B. r. CowEN,
Adjt-Gon. Of Ohio.