GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 75. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, July 8, 1862. 
I.-In organizing new Regiments of Volunteers, the Governors of 
States are hereby authorized to appoint, in addition to the Staff Officers 
heretofore authorized, one Second Lieutenant for each Company, who 
shall be mustered into the service at the commencement of the organi- 
zation, who shall have authority to muster in recruits as they are en- 
listed. If any recruit shall be enlisted by such officer, who shall after- 
wards, on medical inspection, prove to have been obviously unfit for 
the service at the time of his enlistment, all expenses caused thereby 
shall be paid by such officer, to be stopped against him from any pay- 
ment that may be coming to him from the Government thereafter. 
Any officer, thus appointed and mustered, shall only be entitled to be 
paid on the muster and pay-roll of his company, and should he fail to 
secure an organized company within such reasonable time as the Gov- 
ernor may designate, his men may be transferred to some other com- 
pany, his appointment be revoked, and be discharged without pay; 
unless the Governor shall think proper to give him a position in the 
consolidated company to which his men have been transferred. 
’ Articles of enlistment, as in the regular army, will be made out in 
triplicate by such recruiting officers, one copy of which will be sent to 
the Adjutant General of the State, one to the Adjutant of the Regiment, 
and one will be kept by the recruiting officer. 
Recruits will be sent to the regimental rendezvous at least as often 
as once a week, where they will be immediately examined by the 
Surgeon of the Regiment, and, if found unfit for duty by reason of 
permanent disability, will be discharged from the service forthwith by 
the Surgeon, who will report such discharges to the Adjutant General 
of the State, and also to the Adjutant of the Regiment, noting par- 
ticularly those cases where the disability was obvious at the time of 
enlistment. 
The muster-in rolls of each company will be made out by the 
Adjutant of the Regiment, from a list to be furnished by the Adjutant 
General of the State, together with the articles of enlistment furnished 
him by the recruiting officer, and will note upon it the names of all 
persons discharged by the Surgeon for permanent disability, designating 
particularly those cases where the disability was apparent at the time 
of enlistment. 2 
As soon as the organization of a regiment is completed, it will be 
carefully inspected by the mustering officer for the State, who will see 
that at least the minimum number of each company is present; no 
absentees, except sick in hospital, will be counted. He will also com- 
pare the muster-in rolls, and if found correct, will sign the roll, certi- 
fying to the muster of each man at the date of his enlistment. 
Mustering officers will report promptly to the Adjutant General of 
the Army the names of all recruiting Lieutenants mustered into the 
service by them, under conditional letters of appointment, together 
with the Regiments to which they belong. 
11.. 0fficers will be mustered into the service only on the authority 
of the Governor of the State to which their regiments belong. 
111.. Until regiments are organized and their muster rolls completed, 
they will be under the exclusive control of the Governors of the States, 
and all requisitions for quartermaster, medical, and ordnance stores, 
and contracts for subsistence, will, if approved by them, be allowed, 
and not otherwise. 
IV. Where it is desired by the Governors of States, the United 
States officers of the quartermaster, medical, and ordnance depart- 
ments, may turn over stores to the State authorities, to be issued by 
them in accordance with the regulations, and accounted for to the 
proper Bureau of the War Department. 
V. Persons traveling under the order of the Governor of a State on 
business connected with the recruiting service, will be allowed the 
actual cost of transportation, to be paid by the mustering and disbursing 
officer on presentation of the account, accompanied by proper vouchers, 
and the order under which the jotirney was performed. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.