ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, July 16, 1863. No. 218. By direction of the President of the United States, Brigadier General QUINCY A. GILLMORE is appointed to the command of the Tenth Army Corps, in place of Major General David Hunter, relieved, to date from June 12, 1863. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, July 16, 1863. No. 222. The reward of five dollars, with transportation and reasonable expenses, for the arrest and delivery, at the nearest military post or depot, of any officer or private soldier, fit for duty, who may be found absent from his command without just cause, is hereby increased to ten dollars. Paragraph 156, Revised Regulations, and Paragraph V, General Orders, No. 92, are modified accordingly. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, July 17, 1863. No. 223. To facilitate the organization of the Signal Corps, War Department General Orders, No. 106, of 1863, will be modified as follows: The Signal Officer of the Army will immediately detach five officers of the grade of captain, from those that have already been examined and approved, and order them to report in person at the Headquarters of the Departments of North Carolina, of the South, of the Gulf, of the Cumberland, and of the Tennessee, respectively. On the arrival of these officers at the Headquarters to which they are assigned, the Commander of the Department will immediately assemble an Examining Board of not less than three nor more than five members, of which the signal officer assigned above and a medical officer shall be members, for the examination of the acting Signal Officers serving in the Department, and such other persons as may be properly brought before it as candidates for appointment in the Signal Corps. The examination will be conducted as prescribed in the General Orders, No. 106, above cited, and weekly reports of the proceedings of each Board will be made, through the Signal Officer of the Army, to the Secretary of War; and at the conclusion of the examination a special report, exhibiting the relative standing of each officer in the grade to which he has been recommended, will be made to the Central Board in this city. The Examining Boards will hold their sessions at such times and places as may enable them most promptly to discharge their duties. Officers of the acting Signal Corps will be examined in such order as the interests of the service will permit. Applications to appear before the Boards must be made in writing, and no application will be considered unless by the special authority of the Secretary of War, or, in the case of acting Signal Officers, it is with the approval of the Colonel commanding the Corps. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, |