transmitted to Department Headquarters, and will send the person giving the information, if practicable, and if the information is important. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BANKS: OFFICIAL: Aide-de-Camp RICHARD B. IRWIN, Assistant Adjutant General. Cavalry Tactics. GENERAL ORDERS HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, 19TH ARMY CORPS, No. 43. Alexandria, La., May 10, 1863. I. Lieutenant Colonel W. S. ABERT, Assistant Inspector General, is announced as Chief of Cavalry of this Department, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly. II. The U. S. Cavalry Tactics of 1862, known as Cooke's Tactics, and the one-rank formation, will hereafter be exclusively used in the Cavalry of the Department. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BANKS: OFFICIAL: Aide-de-Camp. RICHARD B. IRWIN, Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, 19TH ARMY CORPS, No. 44. Alexandria, La., May 10, 1863. All enlisted men of the nine-months regiments of volunteers, serving in this Department, who may desire to re-enlist for one year or two years from the expiration of their present term of service, in either of the regiments of cavalry or batteries of artillery, also serving in this Department, will record their names, with the period for which, and the regiment or battery in which, they are willing to re-enlist, at the Adjutants' Offices of their respective regiments. Lists of the names so recorded will be forwarded weekly to Brigade Headquarters. The commander of each regiment or battalion of cavalry and battery of artillery will detail one or more commissioned officers to recruit for his command from the men whose names are so recorded. These officers will apply at Brigade Headquarters for the list of names, and will there receive authority to visit the different regiments and enlist and receive the men. The men who may so re-enlist will thereupon be honorably discharged from the regiments in which they are now serving, by orders from Division Headquarters, based upon this order. The recruiting officers will see that the men are properly re-enlisted, in accordance with the Army Regulations, and that they receive their discharges. Every man who may so re-enlist for one year will receive a bounty of fifty dollars, one-half payable immediately, and one-half at the expiration of his new term. Every man who may so re-enlist for two years, will receive a bounty of one hundred dollars, twenty-five dollars payable immediately, and the remainder at the expiration of his new term; and will, in addition, be granted a furlough of forty days within the six months following the re-enlistment, with free transportation to New York and back. These bounties will be paid by the disbursing officer of the fund for "raising, organizing and drilling volunteers." BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BANKS: RICHARD B. IRWIN, Assistant Adjutant General. OFFICIAL: Aide-de-Camp. |