GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 25. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, Mag 25, 1861. 
I.-The plan of organization for the volunteer forces designated in 
General Orders No. 15 of May 4, 1861, is so modified as to allow one 
Surgeon and one Assistant Surgeon to each Regiment; to be appointed 
by the Governors of the respective States after having passed an 
examination by a competent Medical Board appointed by the Gov- 
ernors of the States. The appointments to be subject to the approval 
of the Secretary of War. 
General Orders No. 22 of May 18, 1861, is revoked, and the first 
two paragraphs of article 4, “Memorandum,” General Orders No. 15, 
are amended to read as follows : 
4. Memorandum. 
The officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, organized as 
above set forth, will, in all respects, be placed on the footing, as to 
pay and allowances, of similar corps cf the Regular Army : Provided, 
That their allowances for clothing shall be $3 50 per month, and that 
each company officer, non-commissioned officer, private, musician, and 
artificer of cavalry shall furnish his own horse and horse 
and shall receive 40 cents per day for their use and risk, except that, 
in case the horse shall become disabled, or shall die, the allowance 
shall cease until the disability be removed, or another horse be sup- 
plied. Every Cavalry Volunteer, who shall not keep himself supplied 
with a serviceable horse, shall serve on foot. 
Every Volunteer non-commissioned officer, private, musician, and 
artificer, who enters the service of the United States under this plan, 
shall be paid at the rate of 50 cents in lieu of subsistence, and if a 
Cavalry Volunteer, 25 cents additional in lieu of forage, for every 20 
miles of travel from his place of enrolment to the place of muster— 
the distance to be measured by the shortest usually travelled route— 
and when honorably discharged, an allowance, at the same rate, from 
the place of his discharge to his place of enrolment, and, in addition 
thereto, the sum of one hundred dollars. 2 
11.. Washington City is announced as a Chaplain Post for the Regu- 
lar troops and militia of the District in the service of the United 
States. 
111.. 2d Lieutenant N. R. Chambliss, 3d Artillery, and Brevet 2d 
Lieutenant L. G. Hoxton, Ordnance Department, having tendered 
their resignations to avoid being called upon for active service, their 
names will be stricken from the Rolls of the Army. 
By order: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.