Charles City intelligencer., 1865-01-26
STATE OF IOWA.
ADJUrANT GENERALS OFFICE,
DAVENPORT, Jan. Sd, 1865.

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The State of Iowa has been authori-
zcd to raise a regiment of Infantry, as
Will be seen by the following despatch
from the War Department
By telegraph from Washington, $3.50
p. m, Jan. 3, 1865.
To Ada. Gen. Baker
Your telegram of the Cd has been
overwhelmingly 10 raise cavalry
cannot be granted, but you are author
lied by the Secretary of War to raise
one regiment of volunteer infantry
under the call of the 2lst ult., for 30O,-
900 men period of service will be for
l, 2 or 3 years, as recruits may elect.
The said regiment must be muster
ed into service by February 7th next,
in order that they may be credited on
the quota of the State under the call
in complete regiments, and companies
which fail to organize within a reason
able time will be consolidated SO as to
form and be mustered in with com
plete regimental organizations before
the aforesaid date. Recruitment, or
ganization and musters must conform
to existing regulations. In organi-
zing the regiment, general orders 243,
series Of 1864, Adjutant Generals
Office, will not be applicable, the said
order having been revoked
JAMES b. Fry, P. NJ. G.
II is therefore ordered:
!. Recruiting officers will have all
recruits regularly enlisted and sworn
in, on enlistment papers, by Justice
of the Peace, Notary Public, or other
officer authorized to administer oaths.
Recruiting officers are not authorized
to administer said oath. Enlistment
papers will be made out i'm triplicate,
two copies for Lieut. Col Grier, Super
intendent Of Recruiting service, Dav-
export, and one for this Office.
Ill. Enlistment papers must be full
and complete, and all blanks for sig
nature filled up. Officers will note on
back of same the actual residence of
the recruit, by county, township, city
and ward, and will i'm this service be
guided by the rules and regulations of
the War Department, enlisting only
able-bodied men between the ages of
Is and As in good health and free from
all physical defects, and five feet high.
No person under the age of twenty
one is to be enlisted without the writ
ten consent of his parent, guardian or
master, or certificate of a responsible
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 any man to be deceived or III
weighed into the service by false repre-
sentation, such as promise of furlough,
&c, but will in person explain the ma
ture of the service, the length of the
term, the pay and allowances to which
a soldier is entitled by law, before he
signs the enlistment.
Ill. Officers and men are express
ly 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.
Nv. All subs stence, lodging. trans
portation, bills, &c, are paid by the
U. S. Disbursing officer, Lieut.. Col.
w. N. Grier, Davenport, Iowa.
| v. Every enlisted man discharged
as q minor, or for causes involving
fraud on his part in the enlistment, or
discharged by the civil authority, for
feits all pay and allowances due at the
time of discharge. In case any indi-
vidual is discharged within three
months after entering the service, for
disability which existed at that time,
he receives neither pay NO: allowances,
except subsistence and transportation
to his home.
vi. Special attention 10 called to
the following extract from General Or
der No. 866, War Department, A. G. o..
series 1858: "All expenses incurred
on account of recruits thereafter enlist
ed by recruiting officers either for old
or new regiments, who shall be reject
ed after medical inspection for obvious
disability existing at the time of en-
listment will be charged on the mus
ter-in roll opposite the name Of the of.
icer enlisting them, and stepped from
any pay which may hereafter be due
him from the Government"
VII. On application to this Office
recruiting officers can procure blanks
for making out bills against the Uni
ted States, for subsistence and lodg-
tings of recruits. The names of all re-
cruits must be inserted in said bills
for subsistence or attached thereto.
Recruiting officers will make verbal
contracts for the same when placed in
quarters. The price of aration should
not exceed 80 cents day, or 10 cents
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