GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 145. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, September 29,1862. 
I--The Department is informed that certain general officers of the 
Volunteer Service, on being relieved from their commands, or trans- 
ferred from one command to another, have occasionally carried off 
with them the soldiers employed as clerks or orderlies at their former 
headquarters. Not only had they no right and should have known 
better than to do so, hut it was wrong in their superiors in command 
to permit it; nor will it again he permitted. 
II.-All soldiers so separated from their regiments will be immedi- 
ately returned to them; and the commanding officers of all regiments, 
from which men are thus irregularly detached, shall, if the latter be 
not returned within a reasonable time, promptly report the facts to 
this office, for the further action of the Department. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.