The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1865-02-02
Volunteers wanted!

Authority having been granted the
Governor of Pennsylvania to recruit fifty
new companies, to count on the draft, the
following proclamation has been issued
with regard to the subject. With Only
twelve days intervening between the date
of the proclamation ard the time when
the new troops must be mustered into the
service, unequalled celerity is certainly
required to make good any expectations
that these fifty companies will really be
forthcoming at the appointed time -
HEADQUARTERS PENN'A. MILITIA,
HARRISBURG, Jan. 26, 1865
General Orders No. 50.
Authority from the War Department
having this day been received to raise
fifty companies of Volunteer Infantry,
under the call of the President of the
United States of the 10Th December, 1864,
for three hundred thousand (300,000)
men-said companies to be assigned to
regiments now in the service, wherein
vacancies exist, or consolidated into COM
piete regiments, as may hereafter be
deemed best, 1t IS ordered,
L. Special authorities will he granted to
raise companies, to be recruited and organ
lied agreeably to General Orders No. 131,
War Department, series of 1864. Prefer
ence will be given to persons who have
been In service, and have been honora5ly
discharged, or who may be detached from
reduced Regiments in the field, or mustered
out Of service in consequence Of consolida-
tions.
Ii. Applications for appointments as
mastering Lieutenants, under the above
order, will be Immediately made to the Office
of the Adjutant General of the State, as
the time allowed for raising these troops is
too short to admit Of any delay.
Ill. Commanding officers Of squads or
of companies recruited in the Western
DiUiSion Of the State, will report to the
commanding officer, Camp Curtin, Harris
burg; and of those recruited in the East
ern DiVision of the State, to the command
ing officer, Camp CadwaIader, Philadel-
phia.
Upon the application of the command
ing officer, or Of the mastering Lieutenant
of a company, to the agents of the different
railroad companies throughout the State,
transportation to the camp Of rendezvous
will be furnished.
". Actual and necessary expenses for
boarding and lodging Of troops, raised
under this order, will be paid by the Uni
ted States disbursing officer, at the proper
post, at a rate not exceeding forty cents
per day for each man mustered into the
service of the United States, on the affida-
viz of the officer furnishing the men, sup
ported by the receipts Of the party to whom
the money was paid. Names of the men,
and the dates between which each man
was boarded and lodged, must be stated in
the account rendered.
Y. The term of service will be for either
one, two, or three years, as the recruits
may elect
VI. These troops must be mustered into
service by the seventh (7th) of February
next, in order that they may be credited
OH the quota of the State, under the afore-
said call, prior to the draft.
VII. Incomplete companies which fail
to organize, will be consolidated within
reasonable time, so as to form and be
mustered in with complete company or
ganizations before that date.
VIII. Bounties will be paid by the
United States Government as follows:
For recruits for one year. $10o
'' for two years.. $500
60 for three years............. 5000
The first inssallments of bounty will be
paid by the mastering and disbursing Off
GERS, when the recruit is mustered in, as
follows
To recruit who eplists in the army
for one year........-....-.......... > 80 33
To d recruit who enlists in the army
Tor Two years DO 66
To a recruit who enlists in the army
for three years..................... 100 90
By order of A. G. CURTIN.
Governor and Commander -i;a- Chief
A. L. RUSSELL, -4diVant Gen. Pcrana.
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