Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-07-18
CONCERT.
Regulations for Recruiting in the Reb-
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Regulations for recruiting in the rebel
states for the loyal states have been issued
1t is provided that recruiting agents must
have letter of appointment from the
state executives The particular field of a
state in which the agent is to operate is to
be specified in the letter of appointment
Experience has shown that the agents
should not be paid for each recruit, but
that they should have a fixed compensa-
ton for their services; otherwise, fraudu-
lent practices may be resorted to for the
peeuniary benefit of the agent, to the great
prejudice of the state and military service.
All recruiting agents viii be subject to the
rules and articles of war 1t is made the
duty of the commanding officer Of any de
partment or district in which recruiting
agents operate, and of commanding officers
of rendezvous, to order back to his state or
arrest and hol for trial, as he may deem
best, any recruiting agent who SHALL COM
nit frauds upo n the government or re-
cruit or who shall violate the instructions
issued to govern this recruitment, or be gull
ty of any often Sc against military law. No
man shall be ret .ruited who is already in tho
military service as a soldier, teamster, lal
borer, Guide. etc.. or who is so employed by
the military auth Orities as to be of import
ance to military operations. Recruits pro
cured in accordance with the act quoted
| must be delivered by the recruiting agents
at one of the following g-named rendezvous,
/ namely: Camp Casey, Washington, ID. c.
1 for Northeast Virginia; Camp near For
tress Monroe for Southeast Virginia; Camp
| Newbern, n. c., for North Carolina; Camp
Hilton Head, S. C., for South Carolina and
Florida; Camp Yicksburg, Mis-, for Mis-
sissippi and CaHap Nashville, Tenn, for
Georgia and Alabama. When received in
the rendezvous it shall be the duty of the
United Stated officers there to have the re-
cruits promptly examined, and if accepted
to have them Immediately mustered into
the United Stated service, promptly provid
ed for, and to the regiments for which they
NAV been enlisted or assigned, or to suel
other regiments as the service may
REQUIRE. The aforesaid rendezvous are re
garded as mill tary posts, and will be con
dueted as such under the immediate ordes
of the War Dept as issued through the ad
iutant gener ais Office, but department and
army comma nders are desired to exercise
Il supervision over them as coming within
the limits of their departments, and t
make any reports to this office concerning
them which may be deemed advisable
| If it is desired to- put any Of the voluatee
recruits under this act into service a
substitutes before or after the draft, the.
must be sent without expense to the gov
ernment by the recruiting agent to tn
district in which the pricipal is enrolle
and there bc mustered in by the provost
marshal. who will issue the proper substi
tuition papers. 1t is made the duty {
Commanding Officers to afford to recruit
ing agents all such facilities as they ca
! provide, without detriment to the publ
f service, and to prevent recruiting by un
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