Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-20
THE REORGANRED ARMY
GENERAL ORDER OF THE SECRE.
TARY OF WAR.
Regulations Relating to the Appoint.
ment Of Field Omcers.

The Secretary of War has issued gem
eral order in relation to the army as re-
organized which. in part, is as follows:
I'm the cavalry and infantry arms the
regiment is the administrative unit; a
cavalry regiment consists of three con-
stituted squadrons of four troops EACH an
infantry regiments of three constituted
battalions of four companies each. The
command of a regiment devolves upon
the senior officer on duty with it wherever
he may be stationed. Wherever incom
plete battalions of the same different
regiments arc serving together the COM
handing officer may designate provisional
battaions. The battalion is unit for
maneuvers and Instruction.; 1t is not an
administrative unit; it has no headquar
tiers and when serving in regiment no rec
ords.
Field officers of the line of the army
are assigned by the department or other
commander to stations or commands
where their services are most required,
provided troops of their own regiments
or corps are serving there. Lieutenant
colonies and majors duty at posts are
assigned to provisional battalions by post
commanders
THE regimental staff officers are ap-
pointed from the captains, and consists OF
commiSSary, and they will be so desig-
mated. respectively; they are appointed by
the reg1mental commander, who will at
once report his action to the adjutant gen.
eral, the appointment of the Quartermaster
and the commfsSary to be made subject
to the approval of the Secretary Of War
The battalion staff officers are appointed
from the lieutenants, and consist of the
adJutant and the quartermaster and COM
missary, and they will be designated as
battalion (or squadron adjutant and as bat
TALON (or squadron quartermaster and
comm1ssary, respectively: they are APP
pointed by the regimental commander upon
the recommendation of the battalion COM
mander.
When a battalion is detached and serv-
ing at such distance from regimental
headquarters that more than fifteen DAYS
are required for exchange of correspond
ence by mail, the battalion staff officers
are appointed by the battalion command
er, who will Immediately notify the regi-
me ntal commander and the adjutant gen.
eral. Appointments of staff officers will
not be antedated, and will take effect the
day on which actually made. The officer
will be entitled to the pay pertaining to
his appointment from the date he enters
upon duty under it.
"Regimental staff officers may hold Of
nee for four years and battalion staff Of
HcerS FOR two years and no longer. They
Will not be eligible for second tour nor
for appointment or reappointment except
to serve an uneXpired term; but the time
an adjutant or QuartermaSter may have
previously served on the regmental staff
with the rank of lieutenant. and any period
lieutenant may have served as a bat
talon staff officer will not be included in
computing the four years for which he may
hold office the regimental staff as
captain.
Each non-commissioned officer will be
furnished with a certificate or warrant
of his rank, signed by the officer making
the appointment, and countersigned by the
adjutant, but a separate warrant as first
sergeant will not be given. A warrant
issued to a non-commissioned officer is his
personal property. Warrants need not be
renewed in cases of re-enistment in the
same company. if re-enlistment IS made
the day following the day Of discharge,
but upon request may remain in force until
vacated by promotion or reduction; each
re-enlistment and continuance may be
noted on the warrant by the company COM
mander"