Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-12-31

scribed by the Adjutant General The Heads
Of Burcaux will detail competent officers for
the prompt examination and organization,
arming, cquippng and supplying the Corps.
Nv. Maior. General Hancock is assigned
to the command of this Corps, Headquarters
at Washington.
BY order of the Secretary Of War.
+. ID. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.
FINLEY ANDERSON,
Assistant Adjutant General.
CIRCULAR NO. SC.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
Washington, December l, 1864.
Enlistments and appointments IN the First
Corps
l. Persons desiring and qualified to enlist
in the list Army Corps, General Hancock
commanding, under General Orders No.
2S7, current series, from this Office, are
hereby authorized to present themselves to
any United States District Provost Marshal,
who, if the applicant appears to be qualified,
will furnish free transportation pass to
Washington, ID. G., where recruits will be
duly enlisted and mustered into the service
satisfy the Provost Marshal that he is an
able bodied man, fit for military service, and
that he has been honorably discharged after
the expiration Of two years service, by ex-
hbiting his discharge, Orin the necessary alb
sence of that paper, by presenting such 9th
or evidence as the Provost Marshal may re-
quirc.
No person will be forwarded until he has
satisfied the Provost Marshal that he is act
ing in good faith, with view to enlistment.
In case of doubt as to his physical fitness, he
will not he forwarded until he shall have
been certified to be fit by the Surgeon of the
Board of Enrolment, which certificate shall
be retained by the Provost Marshal, and n
copy forwarded to the Adjutant General by
the Provost Marshal.
Surgeons of the Board Of Enrolment shall
examine any applicant sent to them by the
his fitness for military service, and any Sur
geon refusing or neglecting to make such ex-
animation will be dismissed.
Provost Marshals will he prepared to fur
nish qualified applicants promptly with in
formation and with transportation
Any person falsely representing himself as
a recruit, and as designing to enlist in the
First Army Corps, and failing to offer him.
self as such recruit, or by any means fraud
ulently procuring transportation, shall be
deemed guilty of defrauding the Govern
ment, and will be punished by Court Mar
tal or Military Commission.
E,1istnsents, Muste,s, and CredNs.
II. All enlistments and musters will be
made at the rendezvous near Washington,
by the Corps Commissary of Musters and
his assistants specially assigned to that duty,
aud in accordance with the Recruiting and
Mastering Regulations of the Army
Recruits will be credited to the district in
which they or their families are (lOmiciled
As evidence of place Of domicile, the afflda-
Wit of the recruit will be required. II II
shall subsequently he ascertained that the
place Of doMicile has not been correctly
given, the credit will be taken from the place
to which it was enormously assigned, and
transferred to the proper place Of doaaicile
of the recruit.
Credits win be reported as for an Army
Corps in the field, and as directed in Circli-
lar No. 81, current series, from this Office.
Organization.
III. The organization of the Corps will be
by successive regiments that is, one regi-
mcnt must be fully recruited before another
one is commenced. Each regiment will be
recruited in like manner, by successive COM
panics. -. '~
The organization of regiments and com.
panies must conform to that prescribed fbf
the Infantry Ams BY Paragraph %, Master
ing Regulations.
Commissioned Ofcers.-4Appoiatments aud
Musters. 49,, "a.
~. Applicants for appointmentssas en-
Gers will address and fBrWarl their apDlica.
tiOns, in writing, to the - Adjutaut denerSl