GENERAL ORDERS, 
NO. 16. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, February 8, 1865. 
Paragraph 158 (Article XVIII) of the Revised Army Regulations is 
hereby amended to read as follows: 
Deserters shall make good the time lost by desertion, unless discharged 
by competent authority. Non-commissioned officers or soldiers who 
have absented themselves without authority from their companies, 
regiments, or posts of duty, shall also, in fulfillment of their contract ot 
enlistment, make good the time lost by reason of their unauthorized 
absence, upon such absence being found by a court martial. 
order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.