General Orders,} No. 16. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The President of the United States having directed an increase of the regular Army of the United States by the addition of eight regiments of Infantry, one regiment of Cavalry, and one regiment of Artillery, making a minimum aggregate of 18,154 officers and enlisted men, to be augmented, at the discretion of the President, to a maximum aggregate of 22,714 officers and enlisted men, the following Plan of Organization has been adopted, and is directed to be printed for general information. PLAN OF ORGANIZATION. For the increase of the force of the Regular Army of the United States, as directed by the President. 1. INFANTRY. Eight regiments of Infantry, in addition to those now in service, will be raised. Each regiment will consist of two or more battalions. Each company will be organized as follows: Each Regiment will be organized, supposing three Battalions to constitute a Regiment, as follows: One additional Regiment of Cavalry will also be raised, and will consist of three battalions. Each battalion will consist of two squadrons, and each squadron will consist of two companies, each of which will be organized as follows: Each Regiment will consist of two or more battalions, organized, when consisting of three battalions to a regiment, as follows: One additional Regiment of Artillery will be raised and will consist of 8 or 12 batteries, and each battery will be organized as follows: The Regiment will be organized, supposing it to consist of twelve batteries, as follows: 960 Company Officers and enlisted 1,872 Company Officers and enlisted 1 Adjutant. 1 Adjutant. 1 Regimental Q. M. and Commissary, 1 Regimental Q. M. and Commissary, (a Lieutenant.) 1 Sergeant Major. 1 Quartermaster Sergeant. 1 Commissary Sergeant. 2 Principal Musicians. 1 Hospital Steward. 24 Musicians for Band. 997 Aggregate. (a Lieutenant.) 1 Sergeant Major. 1 Quartermaster Sergeant. 1 Commissary Sergeant. 2 Principal Musicians. 1 Hospital Steward. 24 Musicians for Band. 1,909 Aggregate. 4. GENERAL ORGANIZATION. This force will be organized into two Divisions of two Brigades each. 1 Major General. 2 Aides-de-Camp, (a Captain or Lieutenant.) 1 Assistant Adjutant General, (a Major from the Adjutant General's Department.) 1 Quartermaster, (from the regular Staff of the Army.) 1 Commissary of Subsistence, (from the regular Staff of the Army.) A Brigade will have 1 Brigadier General. 1 Aide-de-camp, (a Lieutenant.) 1 Assistant Adjutant General, (a Captain from the Adjutant General's Department.) 1 Assistant Quartermaster, (a Captain.) 1 Assistant Commissary, (a Captain.) To provide for the foregoing, there will be added to the Adjutant General's Department 1 Lieutenant Colonel. 4 Captains. And to the Commissary Department 2 Majors. 5. MEMORANDUM. The officers and enlisted men, raised in pursuance hereof, will receive the same pay, emoluments and allowances, and be on the same footing, in every respect, with those of corresponding grades and corps now in the service. The Bands of the Regiments of Infantry, Artillery and Cavalry will be paid as follows: one-fourth of each will receive the pay and allowances of Sergeants of Engineer Soldiers; one-fourth, those of Corporals of Engineer Soldiers; and the remaining half, the pay and allowances of Engineer Soldiers of the 1st class. The wagoners and saddlers will receive the pay and allowances of Corporals of Cavalry. The Battalion Sergeant Major, Quartermaster Sergeant and Commissary Sergeant, will receive the same pay and allowances as the Sergeant Major of the Regiments to which they belong. The Saddler Sergeants, Veterinary Sergeants, Company Quartermaster Sergeants and Drum Major, will receive the pay and allowances of Sergeants of Cavalry. The Battalion Adjutants and Battalion Quartermaster and Commissary will receive the emoluments now provided for Regimental Adjutants. There will be added to the Quarterinaster's Department as many Wagoners, with the pay and allowances of Corporals of Cavalry, and as many Master Wagoners with the rank, pay and allowances of Sergeants of Cavalry—as the exigencies of the service, in the judgment of the President, may require. There will be allowed to each Regiment one Chaplain, who will be appointed by the Regimental Commander, on the vote of the Field Officers and Company Commanders on duty with the Regiment at the time the appointment is to be made. The Chaplain so appointed must be a regularly ordained minister of some Christian denomination, and will receive the pay and allowances of a Captain of Cavalry. 6. PROMOTION FROM THE RANKS, ETC. Two-thirds of the company officers of the Infantry and Cavalry Regiments will be appointed in the same manner as the officers of like rank in the existing Army; and the remaining one-third, when a regiment shall have its full complement of enlisted men, will be appointed from the ranks, to be taken from among the Sergeants, on the recommendation of the Colonel of the Regiment, approved by the General commanding the Brigade. After the completion of the organization of a regiment of Cavalry or Infantry, one-half of all the vacancies which may occur in the lowest grade of commissioned officers, by promotion or otherwise, will be appointed, as above, from the ranks. Non-commissioned officers will be appointed by the Colonels of Regiments, on the nomination of the Captains, approved by the Majors commanding Battalions. Corporals will be taken from the enlisted men; Sergeants from Corporals. The First Sergeant will be taken from the other Sergeants of the company by the Captain. The Battalion non-commissioned Staff will be appointed from the Sergeants of the Battalion by the Major commanding. The Regimental non-commissioned Staff will be appointed from the Sergeants of the Regiment by the Colonel. I.-Brevet Brigadier General Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant General of the Army, is assigned to duty according to his Brevet, with the pay and emoluments thereof. II.—Captain Franklin Gardner, 10th Infantry, having abandoned the command of, and left his Post,-Fort Bridger,-the President directs that he cease to be an officer of the Army from this date. BY ORDER L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, } No. 18. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, I.-At a General Court Martial convened at Fort Union, New Mexico, by special orders No. 28, 1860, from the Headquarters of the Department of New Mexico, whereof Colonel B. L. E. Bonneville, 3d Infantry, was President, was arraigned and tried Captain William K. Van Bokkelen, Assistant Quartermaster U. S. A., on the following charges and specifications, viz: CHARGE 19T.-" Violation of the Thirty-ninth Article of War.". Specification. In this, that he, Captain William K.Van Bokkelen, of the U. S. Quartermaster's Department, did pay or allow to be paid, out of the public funds in his charge, two hundred and twenty-five dollars, ($225,) on account of services as Transportation Clerk alleged by said Captain Van Bokkelen to have been rendered by R. A. Hanna during the months of July, August and September, 1859, the said Hanna not having rendered the said service. This at Fort Union, New Mexico, on or about 30th September, 1859. CHARGE 2D." Rendering incorrect accounts to the Government." Specification. In this, that he, Captain William K. Van Bokkelen, of the U. S. Quartermaster's Department, did allow to be signed, and did file in support of his Accounts, false vouchers for certain disbursements of Public money, viz: The receipts of R. A. Hanna for two hundred and twenty-five dollars, ($225), certified by the said Captain Van Bokkelen to have been paid to the said |