GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 85. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, April 2, 1863. 
The following is an extract from the “Act for enrolling and calling 
out the national forces, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 
1863: 
SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That such of the volunteers and 
militia now in the service of the United States as may re-enlistto serve 
one year, unless sooner discharged, after the expiration of their present 
term of service, shall he entitled to a bounty of fifty dollars, one-half 
of which to he paid upon such re-enlistment, and the balance at the 
expiration of the term of re-enlistment. And such as may re-enlist to 
serve for two years, unless sooner discharged, after the expiration of 
their present term of enlistment, shall receive, upon such re-enlistment, 
twenty-five dollars of the one hundred dollars bounty for enlistment 
provided by the fifth section of the act approved twenty-second of July, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled “An act to authorize the 
employment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the law's and protecting 
public property.” 
In addition to the benefits as set forth in the foregoing, it is hereby 
ordered that each soldier now in service who may re-enlist as therein 
provided shall be allowed a furlough for thirty days, the same to be 
granted immediately after his re-enlistment. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.