GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 155. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, October 26, 1865. 
Order for discharging certain Officers and Men of the Jret. Reserve Corps. 
In view of the very numerous and pressing applications for discharge 
by members of the Veteran Reserve Corps, Department Commanders 
will cause all organizations of that Corps, within the geographical 
limits of their command, to be paraded before a General or General 
Staff Officer, as soon after the receipt of this order as practicable. 
Any General or Staff Officer on duty within the limits of the Depart- 
ment, whose services can be spared, may be detailed for this purpose. 
The Officer will question each officer and enlisted man so paraded as to 
whether he wishes to be discharged or to remain in the service, and will 
make out separate lists of those who wish a discharge and of those who 
wish to remain in service. Each list will then be read before the officers 
and men, who will have an opportunity to correct it, so that it will be a 
true expression of their wishes on the subject. The Officer will visit 
all those who may be absent from the parade, and, in a similar manner, 
obtain their wishes, and enter their names on the proper rolls. 
The rolls of officers and men who wish to be discharged will then be 
turned over to the proper Commissary of Musters, who will immediately 
muster out of service those whose names are on the rolls of such as 
desire discharge. He will obtain from regimental officers the necessary 
data, and complete the rolls of those who desire to remain in service, so 
as to exhibit their rank and degree of disability. These rolls, when 
completed, will be forwarded to the Adjutant General. 
Names of officers and men belonging to different companies or regi- 
ments will not be borne on the same rolls in any of the above cases. The 
rolls of those who wish to remain in service, as well as those who wish 
for discharge, will be made on the prescribed blanks for muster and 
descriptive rolls, and will contain full information, according to the form 
of the blank. 
Department Commanders will see that this order is executed with 
promptness. 
order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.