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60 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
regiments from other sources; also all absentees. The total reduction
will be about 70,000. General Orders, No. 94, current series, from
this office, will govern the musters out and payments.
Please furnish the Governor with a copy of this.
THOMAS M. VINCENT,
Assistant Adjutant- General.
CIRCULAR WAR DEPT., ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
No. 27. Washington, June 26, 1865.
The necessity for the services of the invalid companies of the Reg-
ular Army, authorized by paragraph 5 of General Orders, No. 245, of
1863, having ceased, the organizations will be discontinued. Com-
manding officers of depots will at once cause a careful medical exam-
ination to be made of the enlisted men composing them. All men
who are not now, or who are not likely to become in a reasonable
time, capable of performing field duty will at once be discharged' on
the usual medical certificates. The remainder will be forwarded to
their companies as rapidly as their condition will permit.
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant- General.
WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, June 26, 1865.
TELEGRAM TO DEPARTMENT COMMANDERS.
Please cause an immediate investigation as to the expiration of
service of all men on detached duty, in confinement, &c., within your
department, that all entitled to discharge may be forwarded to the
chief mustering officer of their respective States for muster out, or
to be otherwise disposed of, as required by existing orders. Appli-
cations from the friends of this class of persons for their discharge
are being constantly received at this Department.
SAMUEL BRECK,
Assistant Adjutant- General.
WASHINGTON, June 28, 1865.
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War :
I understand there is a great delay in carrying out orders for the mus-
ter out of troops in hospitals throughout the North arising principally
from neglect of officers forwarding with sick men their descriptive
rolls. In many instances the organizations to which sick men belong
have been mustered out, leaving no way to get at their descriptive
rolls further than their record is kept in the Adjutant-General's
Office.
I would recommend that a circular be sent to all hospitals directing
promptness in carrying out existing orders so far as they apply to
men supplied with the requisite papers to enable them to do so, and
report to the Adjutant-General the name, regiment, &c., of all men
who should be mustered out but are not supplied with descriptive
roils.
U. S. GRANT,
Lie uate nant- General.
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