GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 60. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, August 17, 1861. 
I..By direction of the President, a Board of Officers will assemble 
in this city at 12 m. on Wednesday, the 28th instant, or as soon 
thereafter as practicable, to examine into and determine the facts in 
relation to the nature and occasion of the disability of such officers 
disabled to perform military service as may be brought before it. 
The Board will be guided in its action by such sections of the act 
of Congress approved August 3, 1861, providing for it, as may be 
applicable to the subject. 
Detail for the Board. 
Bvt. Brig. General J. G. Totten, Engineers. 
Col. C. A. Waite, 1st Infantry. 
Col. B. F. Lamed, Paymaster General. 
Surgeon E. H. Abadee, Medical Staff. 
Surgeon Josiah Sampson, Medical Staff. 
Major Innis Palmer, 5th Cavalry, will act as recorder of the Board. 
II..Any officer of the Army who has served as such for forty con- 
secutive years and desires to be retired from active service will 
immediately make an application to that effect to the Adjutant 
General. 
order : 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.