GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 86. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, October 1, 1861. 
I ..The six New England States will temporarily constitute a sepa- 
rate military department, to be called the Department of New Eng- 
land. Headquarters, Boston. Major General B. F. Butler, United 
States Volunteer Service, while engaged in recruiting his division, will 
command. 
11.. Lieutenants appointed aides to general officers, are not dropped 
from their regiments, but should be reported upon the returns thereof, 
as “absent upon detached service.” 
111.. 0fficers of the volunteer service sent upon regimental recruit- 
ing service, will make out three muster-in rolls of recruits enlisted; 
the first of which will be sent to the Adjutant General of the Army, 
the second to the Adjutant General of the State to which the regiment 
belongs, and the third to the Commanding Officer of the regiment. 
order: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General* 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.