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General Orders, No. 16

NEWS OF 150 YEARS AGO

November-December 1862

From The Missouri Democrat, Saturday, November 1, 1862.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 16.

HEADQUARTERS ST. LOUIS DISTRICT OF MO.,
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 30, 1862.

The following extract from the orders of the General-in-Chief is re-published for the guidance of troops in this District:

The attention of all officers, and especially of Commanders of Departments and Army Corps, is called to the absolute necessity of reducing the baggage trains of troops in the field. The mobility of our armies is destroyed by the vast trains which attend them, and which they are required to guard. This evil requires a prompt remedy. Officers will hereafter be allowed to carry into the field only the ordinary necessary mess chest and a valise or carpet bag. No trunks or boxes will be permitted in the baggage trains. Privates frequently carry carpet bags and boxes in the regimental wagons. This must be immediately stopped. Inspectors, quartermasters and wagon masters will see that such articles are ejected from the wagons and cars whenever found, and regimental and company officers who permit these abuses, will be reported, through the proper channels, for dismissal from service.

Another cause of the increase of trains is the conveying of sutler’s goods in regimental or quartermaster wagons, under the guise of quartermaster and commissary stores. Hereafter any officer or wagon master who permits this abuse will be duly punished, and the sutler whose goods are so carried will be placed without the lines of the army of his appointment revoked.

By command of Major General Halleck.
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant General.