The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-07-29
Regulations for Recruiting In
Rebel States.

The following Is the substance OF the
regulations just issued by the War
Department for recruiting in rebel
States for loyal States:
1t is provided that recruiting agents
must have a letter of appointment from
the State Executive. The particular
field of State in which the agent is
TO operate is to be specified in the let
ter Of appointment. Experience has
shown that these agents should not be
paid for each recruit, but that they
should have fixed compensation for
their services. Otherwise fraudulent
practices may be resorted to for the
pecuniary benefit of the agent to the
great prejudice of the State and mill
tary service. All recruiting agents will
be subject to the rules and articles of
war.
1t is made the duty of the command
ing officer of any department or dis
trict, in which recruiting agents ope-
rate, and of commanding officers of
rendezvous, to order back to his State
or arrest and hold for trial, as he may
deem best, any recruiting agent who
shall commit fraud upon the govern
ment or recruits, or who shall violate
the instructions issued to govern this
recruitment, or be guilty of any offence
against military law.
No man she'll be recruited who is
already in the military service as
soldier, teamster, laborer guide, &c, or
who is so employed by the military au-
thorities as to be of Importance to mil
itary operations.
Recruits procured in accordance
with the act quoted, must be delivered
by the recruiting agents at one of the
following named rendezvous, viz 49,
Camp Casey, Washington, d. c.. for
Northeast Virginia camp near For
tress Monroe for Southeast Virginia
Camp Newborn, n. c., for North Car
olna Camp Hilton Head, S. c.. for
South Carolina and Florida Camp
Vicksburg Miss, for Mississippi. and
Camp Nashville, Tenn, for Georgia
and Alabama
When received at the rendezvous it
shall be the duty of the United States
officers there TO have the recruits
promptly examined, and, if accepted, to
have them Immediately mustered into
the United States service, properly pro-
ylded Tor and sent to the regiments for
which they may have been enlisted or
assigned, or to such other regiments
as the service may require.
The aforesaid rendezvous are regard
ed as military posts, and viii be con
Quoted as such under the immediate
order of the War Department as issued
through the Adjutant Generals office
but department and army commanders
are desired to exercise supervision
over them, as coming within the limits
OF their departments, to make any re-
ports to this Office concerning them
which may be deemed advisable
If it is desired to put any of the vol
unteer recruits into the service as sub
stitutes, before or after the draft. they
must be sent without expense TO the
government by the recruiting agent to
the district i'll which the principal is
enrolled, and there be mustered in BIZ
the provost marshal, who viii issue the
proper substitution papers.
1t Is made the duty of commanding
officers to afford to recruiting agents all
such facilities as they can provide with
out detriment to the public service,
and to prevent recruiting by uuauthor-
lied parties.