GENERAL ORDERS, )       WAR DEPARTMENT,
                   v             Adjutant General's Office,
      No. 80.       )                 Washington, March 31, 1863.
  It is  hereby ordered that all Surgeons and Assistant  Surgeons
belonging to regiments, who are absent on any other than regimental
duty, shall without delay  rejoin their regiments.  Medical  officers of
regiments will not  hereafter be  detached upon other service, except
temporarily in cases  of necessity,  or where the Surgeon  and  two
Assistant Surgeons are present,  when one of the Assistants may be
detached to hospital duty.

  By order of the  Secretary of War:
                                        E. D. TOWNSEND,
                                     Assistant Adjutant General.