Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-05-26
STATE OF IOWA.
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
Davenport, May 4, 1864.

.' ApJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
.............. Davenport, May A, 1864.
General Order No IL.
l. In order that no misunderstanding may
exist i'm relation to the organization of the
new regiments for 0NE HUNDRED DAYS service,
the following rules will be observed: mea
LIST. At the organization OF companies, the
men of each company will be allowed to
choose their own officers, subject to the APP
prevail of the Governor. H.
3D. In the selection Of field officers, due
regard will be paid to the expressed wishes of
the line officers but as far as practicable. eX-
perienced men will be selected for Colonies.
H. The War Department has refused TO
allow enlisted men to be detached from COM
mands for the purpose of recruiting for the
one hundred days service, and all recruiting
commissions issued by this Department, to en-
list men in the U. S. service at this date, are
hereby revoked. o.. %. .-.... ... ...
Ill. Recruiting officers will have all re-
cruits regularly enlisted and sworn in, on en-
rollment papers by q justice of the peace, No
tary Public, or other officer authorized to
administer oaths. Recruiting officers are not
authorized to muster recruits or to administer
said oath.
Enlistment papers will be made out in trip
licate-two copies for Lieut.. Col. w. n. Grier,
for this office. ...... .E....
Nv. Enlistment papers must be full and
complete and all blanks for signature filled
up. Officers will note on back of same, at
foot, the actual residence of the recruit by
county, township, city and ward. and will in
this service. be guided by the rules and regu-
lations of the War Department--enlisting on
ly able-bodicd men between the ages of eigh-
teen and forty five, in good health. and free
from all physical defects. No person under
the age of twenty-one years Is to be enlisted
without the written consent of his parent,
guardian, or master, or certificate of a re-
sponsible person, that said consent was given
verbally. Recruiting officers will be very
particular in ascertaining the true age of
the recruit. He will not allow airy man to
be deceived or inveigled into the service by
false representation, such as promise Of fur
Tough, &C., but will in person explain the'na-
ture of the service, the length of the term,
the pay and allowances to which soldier is
entitled by law before he signs the enlistment.
V. Officers and men are expressly notified
that the State does not pay them. The U. S.
pays the men from the date of enlistment,
and the officers from actual command.
vi. All subsistence, lodging. transporta-
ton bills, &C., are paid by U. S. discussing
officer, Lieut.. Col. W. N. Grier, Davenport
Iowa. I....
VII. Every enlisted man discharged as
minor, or for other cause, involving fraud on
his part in the enlistment, or discharged by
the civil authority, forfeits all pay and al
lowances due at the time of discharge. In
case any individual is d schargcd within three
months sfer entering the service, for a dsa-
bility which existed at that time he receives
neither pay nor allowances, except subsistence
and transportation to his home. .
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lowing extract from General Order 366, War
Department, A. g. O., series OF 1868:
"All expenses incurred on account of re-
cruits thereafter enlisted by recruiting officers,
either for old or new regiments) who shall be
rejected after medical inspection for obvious
disability, existing at the time of their enlist
ment, will be charged on the muster-in roll.
opposite the name of the officer enlisting
them, and stopped from any pay which may
thereafter be due him from the Government"
TX. On application to this office recruiting
officers can procure blanks for making out
bills against the United States for subsistence
and lodgings of recruits. Recruiting officers
will make verbal contracts for the same when
placed in quarters. The price of ration
should not exceed 80 cents a day or 10 cents
meal, and lodging IL cents a day, for each
man actually subsisted and lodged after his
actual enlistment Under contract for cook
ed rations, three substantial meals shall con-
stitute a complete ration. In transit to regi-
mental depot recruits will be supplied with
cooked rations, obtained before starting I'M
der verbal contract. Recruiting officers
will appeal to the loyalty of the public To OBJ
tain subsistence and lodging at the above
rate, and will only in cases of urgent and ex-
treme necessity exceed them, and in such ca.
SEES only are authorized to make verbal con-
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voucher that the same was at the lowest
price possible in the neighborhood where the
expense was incurred.
X. Transportation passes will be furnished
by Lieut.. Col. w. n. Grier, Superintendent
Recruiting Service, or by this Department, on
application, with explicit statement of routes
and mode of travel. The passes will be filled
up with ink, describing on its face the number
of men and for one hundred days service
Conductors of Railroads, Clerks of steamboats,,
and agents of stage companies, will refuse all
passes which are altered in name, number,
starting point or destination.
XII. Special attention is called to the fol-
lowing extract from General Order, War De-
partment A. G. o., series 1863
Ell Thecertifcate TO all vouchers for
transportation by private conveyance, must
state that the prices charged were the current
rates Of the place where the expense was in
CURED also that transportation by railroad
or steamboat could not be obtained The
vouchers dixie all others must be approved
by the Superintendent Of the Volunteer Re-
cruiting service, and show that the expense
was incurred for new regiments, prior to COM
plete organization The number of men, their
company and regiment Tor, as In the case,
men raised for one hundred days scryice) the
number of miles Travelled and rate per mile, |
will in each case be specified, as in passes for
railroad transportation.
XII. Muster and descriptive rolls will be |
made out in duplicate according to forms fur |
nished from this Department, one copy to be |
retained by recruiting officers, and one to be |
forwarded with the detachment to Lieut.. Col. |
Grier, with the enlistment papers of the men.
XIII. Commanders of companies now
ready for the one hundred days service, will
ut once forward their rolls to this Department,
and be in readiness to move at one hours no.
tice to this point.
XIV. Davenport is the general rendezvous
of all the Regiments except for First DISTRICT,
as the Unied States has here sufficient num-
Der of barracks to accommodate all troops
raised, and as at this point the Chief Disburs-
ing and Mastering Officer of the United States
has his headquarters aau
XIV. All Recruiting officers will at once re-
port to Lieut.. Col. w. n Grier, LIST U. S.
Cavalry, Superintendent of Recruiting Service,
their Postoifice address, and place Of local rem
devious, over their own signature.
XVI. Officers will be appointed TO field po-
sitions as far us practicable from the counties
in which the troops are raised,
XVII. No company will be considered Or
ganized until the rolls of said company are
forwarded to this Department.
By order of the Commander-in-Chief.
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