Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-04-17
OFFICIAL.
CIRCULAR.
OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMAsTER-
-6TH ARMY CORPS, ARMY OF THE JAAEs,

RICHMOND Va, April LIST, 1857
Ia addition to instructions embraced in Circular Orders
issued by the Chief Qusrermaster Army OF the James
the following given for the information of all ohces
of the Quarermasters Department serving with the 10Th
Army Corps
All officers of the Quartemasters Department should
exercise rigid supervisory control the affairs Of the
department in their respective commands and should
make daily inspections to ascertain the exact condiou
OF their supplies and the manner in which the duties per
tanning TO the department are performed.
Attention is particularly called the following para
graph from General Orders No 81 current series, from
the LieutenanGeneral commanding the armies OF the
United States
18TH The unit of organization for the supply trains
Of subsistence, ordnance and forage will be BY Division
Division Quartermasters will be responsible for them
Brigade Qusrtermasters will be responsible for the B
gade baggage trains Regimenta Qusrtermastars win be
responsible for Reginhntal property and baggage.
Quartemasters will attend in person to the drawing
OF necessary supplies at depOts, and will habituay &C
company their trains on Marches
Except upon the eve Of move, the supply trains
should be kept unoaded and the supplies properly stored
where they will be easy of access and can be readily
reloaded should the exgences so require This Will en-
able the Quartermaster to distribute the work OF his
transportation equally among his trains The practice
Of keeping portion Of the trains constantly loaded and
in park idle, thereby throwing all the work upon other
portions Is wrong, and will not be permitted.
Attention OF Quartemasters Is called % the necessity
for greater care and cleanliness Of all their aanas sno
other of transportation The ANIMALS should be
regularly and carefully grcomeG, and the stables and CO
rails thoroughly pohced- Besides regular and sufficient
allowance OF forage and WAFER al EAras should be SAT
Cd " least once week
Harness should be kept Clean aad oiled often as ne
Cessary 20 keep the leather sof and paoe and when
not in igshould be hung and protected from tho
weather Wagons should be kept painted and the
neatly and plainly marked with tie designating badge Of
the command 10 which they are attached.
The monthly estimates for supplies 81 Q1arerr1
Stores Clothing Camp and Garrison EQuipage should 30
carefully prepared and made al to anticipate s tho
wants for the entire month. Special estimates for ort
nary supplies except in cases where the nmsnd has
been increased or OF unavoidable Losses will not be
sdered at this Office. One copy Of the Regimen.al ESD
mate and estimates for separate attachments will IN a
be forwarded With the consolidated estimate Of 3
gades and Divisions.
In addition 10 the usual reports til monthly report
will be made by Quarermasters of Divisions sad n6e.
pendent commands reporting direct 70 hh office giving
the number Of Army Wagons, Spring WsgonA Amba (,
lances Horses and hules sets Of lead and wheel hses;
slso the number Of enlisted employed the number q
enlisted men employed the number OF civilian poJee
how employed, and the rate Of pay.
Any increase decrease ia the strength OF me Tec
tive commands will b promptly reported 20 THE ohce-
In transmitting the monthly report OF ne.ns Of sangs
po1tston, &C. Form 80, the strength Of each oonand
THE number of officers and men present for duty VIII 10
based spon the last trmonthy repOst in the assistant
Adutant Generals Office which II rendered the lest
day of each month. Officers will have the report caro-
fuzzy made up and transmitted 70 this Office punctuay On
the first day OF the month following that 70 which tie
port relates.
The weekly report of wagons and enlisted es, keTslo.
fore reade-ed viii be discontinued from THE date.
n. B. BLOOD,
Capt, sAd Chief Q. n. 25sh Army Cops.