The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 654
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
kept there for border defense. Besides this force we shall have about
five regiments of drafted militia. I shall also have, within the time
you mention, one full regiment of cavalry and three fragments, enough
in all, say, to make one more. We are, however, illy prepared with
arms and equipments for both infantry and cavalry.
DAVID TOD,
Governor.
GENERAL ORDERS, J WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE,
No. 154. Washington, October 9, 1862.
The commanding officer of each regiment, battalion, and battery of
the Regular Army in the field will appoint one or more recruiting
officers, who are hereby authorized to enlist, with their own consent,
the requisite number of efficient volunteers to fill the ranks of their
command to the legal standard.
The enlistments will be made in the usual mode, and for three
years, or for the remaining portion of the period of three years which
the volunteer has yet to serve, if he so prefer.
The recruiting officers will furnish to the commanding officers of
companies to which volunteers whom they may enlist belong, lists of
such volunteers, exhibiting the dates of enlistment of each in the
regular service. All the men upon such lists will be reported as hon-
orably discharged the day previous to the date of their enlistment, on
the first subsequent muster-roll of their company.
As an inducement to volunteers to enlist in the Regular Army, it
will be remembered that promotion to commissions therein is open by
law to its meritorious and distinguished non-commissioned officers,
and that many have already been promoted.
By order of the Secretary of War:
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant- General.
QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington City, October 9, 1862.
Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
SIR: There is no regulation fixing the allowance of transportation
in the field. Printed orders from some of the generals commanding
active troops have fixed the allowance at fifteen wagons to a regiment;
others have marched with six.
The troops generally carry too much useless baggage.
The opinion of Napoleon was that 500 wagons were enough for an
army of 40,000 men, and that with this number the army could have
with it a month's provisions. His troops bivouacked without tents.
The introduction of the shelter-tent enables our Army to carry the
tents of the rank and file upon the persons of the soldiers, and the
wagon trains can therefore be reduced to as low a standard as that
advised by Napoleon. The trains of an army are of three classes-
the headquarters, the regimental, and the general supply trains.
It is impossible to fix by any general regulation the number of
wagons in the general supply trains. They will increase as the dis-
tance from the depot of supplies to the army increases. These depots
are generally filled in our country by railroad or water transportation,
and the supplies are carried forward from the principal depots to the654
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2., book, 1899; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139264/m1/663/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.