The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-18
LONG SERVICE MEDALS
ADJUTANT GENERAL GRAHAAI'S
ORDER.

Commandments of the Different Companies
of the @. N. G. Directed to Apply to the
Ouarternnaster General-Orders In Refer
ence to Undress Uniform and other Mat
tiers Also Issued.
Adjt.-Gen. Graham of the Connec-
ticut National Guard has issued the
following orders in relation to long
service medals, uniforms and the pay
per diem of members of the National
Guard:
Adjutant Generals Office,
Hartford, Conn, July IL. 1895.
General orders, No. ii:
/. Commandments of the different or
ganizations of the Connecticut National
Guard are hereby directed to make re-
QUESTION ON the quarter master general
through the adjutant generals office
for long service medals, to be issued to
those members of their command who
have rendered faithful service in the
Connecticut National Guard for periods
covering ten, fifteen and twenty years.
All acquisitions must be accompanied
by the application and the certificate of
each officer and enlisted man entitled
to said medals. Term of service may
be computed by the aggregate number
of years service in the Connecticut
National Guard, not necessarily con-
secutiye. Medals will be issued after
August II. 1895, in accordance with can
act authorizing the granting of long
service medals by the commander-in-
chief to the Connecticut National
Guard" Said act becoming operative
August /, 1895.
III. The following bill of dress for
undress coat for officers has been adopt
ed by the United States army in gener-
al orders, No. %, headquarters of the
army, Washington, April IL, 1895:
"a single breasted sack coat of dark
blue cloth or serge with standing coll
lar fastened with hook and eye; coat to
close with flap containing suitable
concealed fastening, the skirt to ex7
tend from one-third to two-thirds the
distance from the hip joint to the bend
of the knee, according to height of
wearer; cut to fit the figure easily; a
vertice opening at each side of hip
according to pattern; shoulder straps
and collar insignia to be worn. The
coat to be trimmed with lustrous black
rnohair fiat braid as follows: Edged all
around the bottom, the front edges,
the collar and for six inches upward
from the bottom along both sides open
ing to the skirt, with braid IA inches
wide. This coat will be worn when
full dress is not required"
Officers of the Connecticut National
Guard purchasing new dress coats will
conform in pattern to the above de-
scribed bill Of dress. Officers who may
have in their possession serviceable un-
dress coats of the old pattern will be
permitted to wear them until further
orders.
III. Permission Is hereby granted to
officers to use the leather undress
swordknot on occasions when the I'M
dress suit is worn. The use of United
States army regulation felt campaign
hat is also authorized for the Connec-
tiout National Guard.
Nv. The following is the pay per diem
for services of the officers and enlisted
men of the Connecticut National Guard
when on duty, being in accordance
with the provisions of the militia law
approved July 9, 1895: Brigadier gener-
dl, '9I0,Uf, GOlOlel, 1921 lieutenant COLO
mel, $8.22; major, $685.; captain, mount
ed, SEAS; captain, s493; regimenta1 quar-
termaster, s4.93; first lieutenant, mount
ed, $438; first lieutenant, Salt; second
lieutenant, 1888; chaplain, $5.4S: regi-
mental commissioned officers first
sergeants, company quarter master SER
geants, and bandsman, $3.50; sergeants,
50; corporals. S1.75; and each other en-
listed man, s1.5o. Five dollars per day
and forage allowed for horses for Off
GERS required to be mounted on parades
and encampments authorized by law,
in addition to per diem pay.
V. The commissary general will fur
nish subsistence for enlisted men at en-
campments. Forty cents per day will
bepaid enlisted men for rations for May
parades, or any special parades order
ed by the commander-in-cl
vi. Particular attention is called to
the making out of pay rolls, one Chris
tan name and the surname must be
written in full and the signature to
correspond with the same.
BY order of the COMMUNICATIVE l1ief
CHARLES P. GRAHAM.
Adjutant General.
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