DEDUCTIONS TO BE MADE IN ISSUING ON WITHIN RATION RETURN. The following articles have accumulated, from savings and other causes, in the hands of the Brigade Commissary, and should be deducted by the Depot Commissary from the issues to be made on the within brigade ration return: Pork ARTICLES. [Enter the number and sizes of cans of canned articles issued.] Bacon Fresh beef, canned. Corned beef, canned QUANTITIES. lbs. lbs. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 111. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 2, 1898. The commanding officers of the following regiments U. S. Volunteer Infantry will report to Major General J. F. Wade, U. S. Volunteers, War Department, Washington, District of Columbia, by telegraph, for instructions and orders: First Rhode Island, First North Carolina, First New Hampshire, First New Jersey, Second Texas, First Maine, Fourth Missouri, First Alabama, First Vermont, First West Virginia, First Connecticut, Third Tennessee, Twenty-second New York, First Arkansas, Fifty-second Iowa, Third Virginia, First Delaware, and First Maryland. These regiments will be organized into brigades, as follows: 1st Brigade—First Rhode Island, Fourth Missouri, Twentysecond New York. 2d Brigade-First North Carolina, First Alabama, First Arkansas. 3d Brigade-First New Hampshire, First Vermont, Fiftysecond Iowa. 4th Brigade-First New Jersey, First West Virginia, Third Virginia. 5th Brigade-Second Texas, First Connecticut, First Dela ware. 6th Brigade-First Maine, Third Tennessee, First Maryland. Major General Wade, U. S. Volunteers, is, by direction of the Secretary of War, assigned to command of these brigades and will conduct them to Porto Rico. On his arrival there he will report to Major General John R. Brooke, U. S. Army, for duty with the forces under the immediate direction of the Major General Commanding the Army. The commanding generals of the several Army Corps in which these regiments are now serving are enjoined to give General Wade every possible assistance in the movement herein ordered. These regiments are detached from the corps with which they are now serving for this campaign only, at the termination of which they will be returned to their respective corps. They will be accounted for on all returns as on detached service. On completion of this service, General Wade will resume command of the 3d Army Corps. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 112. WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, August 6, 1898. I. By direction of the President, the Mortar Battery on Sullivans Island, South Carolina, shall hereafter be known and designated as Fort Capron, in honor of Captain Allyn K. Capron, 1st Regiment, U. S. Volunteer Cavalry (2d Lieutenant, 7th Cavalry, U. S. Army), who was killed at the battle of La Quasina, Cuba, June 24, 1898. II. So much of paragraph 2, General Orders, No. 39, May 19, 1898, and of General Orders, No. 51, May 23, 1898, from this office, as relates to the facings to be worn upon the prescribed field uniform, are so far amended as to provide that said facings, conforming in color to the respective arms of service, shall be worn by officers and enlisted men upon the shoulder straps only. III__The following joint resolution of Congress is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: Joint Resolution authorizing the President in his discretion to waive the one-year suspension from promotion and to order reexamination of officers of the Army in certain cases. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That during the existing war the President may, in his discretion, waive the one-year suspension from promotion and forthwith order the reexamination provided in certain cases by the third proviso of section three of the Act approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act to provide for the examination of certain officers of the Army and to regulate promotions therein." Approved, June 14, 1898. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 113. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 8, 1898. The Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts having enacted a law providing for the payment, "out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, to each noncommissioned officer, soldier, sailor or marine who has been or is hereafter mustered into the military or naval service of the United States during the present war as a part of the quota of or to the credit of this Commonwealth, and to members of the Massachusetts naval militia mustered into the service of the United States, also to residents of Massachusetts mustered into the regular army or navy, or into the volunteer brigade of engineers of the United States during the present war, of the sum of seven dollars per month, so long as he shall remain an enlisted man in said service," and the treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts being about to place himself in communication with commanding officers for the purpose of carrying said provision into effect, the commanding officers of all organizations of the Volunteer and of the Regular Army are hereby directed to furnish promptly such information in the premises as may be requested by the treasurer of that Commonwealth. This order will also apply to all other States that have made or may make similar provision. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: H. C. CORBIN, GENERAL ORDERS, No. 114. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 9, 1898. I..Sick and wounded soldiers sent to U. S. general or field hospitals will when able to travel be granted by the surgeons in charge one month's furlough and transportation to their homes. There will be noted on the furlough: By the surgeon, the post or camp nearest to the home of the soldier; by the quartermaster, the issue of transportation; by the commissary, the days for which commutation of rations while traveling is paid. Weekly reports will be made by the surgeons to the Adjutant General of the Army of furloughs so granted, giving names, rank, regiments, and places to which transportation has been issued; also post-office address. Soldiers granted furloughs in accordance with the foregoing will be instructed by the surgeons that on the expiration of their furloughs, if fit for duty, they must report at the nearest Army post, camp, or hospital for the purpose of being either sent to their regiments, or as provided for in paragraph II. Those not fit for duty will be required to forward their furloughs, five days before expiration, to the Adjutant General of the Army, accompanied by the certificate of a reputable physician showing clearly their physical condition and the probable time required for their recovery. The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transportation to the homes of the furloughed soldiers and the Subsistence Department commutation of rations at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents per day for the necessary number of days' travel. Sleeping-car accommodations when the travel is by rail and staterooms when the travel is by boat (other than Government transport) will be furnished under A. R. 1109. Neither the cost of transportation nor commutation of rations while traveling will be charged against the soldier. This order will not apply to soldiers on ordinary furloughs. II. The following instructions to provide for the disposition of enlisted men, patients in the U. S. general or field hospitals, who have made complete recovery and are able to do full duty, are published for the information and guidance of all concerned: Soldiers, both regulars and volunteers, whose regiments are in the United States, will be sent by the surgeons in charge of hospitals to join their proper regiments. Soldiers belonging to regiments of the Regular Army which are not in the United States will be sent by the surgeons in charge of hospitals to report for duty with recruit detach ments of their respective regiments, except artillery soldiers of the Regular Army belonging to batteries which have left the United States, who will be sent to the headquarters of their respective regiments. |