Volunteers for this service will receive a bounty of one hundred dollars, twentyfive of which, and one month's pay will be advanced when the volunteer is mustered into service for the war. Capt. C. W. KILBORN, Provost Marshal of the city of New Orleans, is charged with the immediate organization and command of the first regiment: Capt. R. W. BROWN, Provost Marshal of the Parish of Jefferson, is authorized to organize and command the second regiment. The first regiment will be recruited and organized in the city of New Orleans, excepting the Fourth District, and the second within the limits of the Parish of Jefferson and the Fourth District of New Orleans. III. - Able-bodied men of color between the ages of 20 and 30 years, employed upon Government or private plantations, will be detailed for military service in the Corps d'Afrique; upon order of the Commission of Enrollment. No officer or other person is allowed to recruit men for any special regiment of that corps, and every officer recruiting for this corps tinder this order will be required to exhibit authority for his acts, signed by the Superintendent of Recruiting, and approved by the Commission' of Enrollments. Substitutes will be received in cases where the labor of the recruit is specially required, ‘and exemptions allowed in cases of necessity, upon application to the Commission of Enrollment, but by no other person or authority. Arrangements will be made tỏ secure the crops of the season, and laborers will be furnished as far as practicable to supply the vacancies occasioned by the execution of this order. The first duty of those engaged in the cultivation of the soil is to protect it from invasion, and those whose interests are inconsistent with a vigorous defence of the Department, or who are indifferent to the invasions of a public enemy, can have no rights which the Government is bound to respect. GENERAL ORDERS No 71. HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF. I. Soldiers of the Army of the Gulf employed as nurses or attendants, in military or private Hospitals, will be relieved from that duty, and ordered to their regiments as soon as the welfare of the sick and the general interests of the service will permit; and well-instructed competent female nurses and attendants will be employed, at such rates of compensation as may be ordered by the Medical Director of the Department, not to exceed $18 per month. II. In order that the Hospitals may be relieved from care of soldiers who can safely be discharged therefrom, although not well enough for field service, and that convalescents may not be subjected to the unnecessary hardships of an immediate transfer from the Hospital to the Army in the field, the Medical Director of the Department is charged with the duty of establishing suitable Headquarters for Convalescents." The camp will be subject to medical supervision, but under the command of a competent military officer. Designed especially to assist convalescents, and for the recuperation of exhausted men, it will be furnished with means of instruction, recreation, discipline, and general improvement of health. 66 III. A commission will be appointed by the officer in command of the defences of New Orleans, or at any post at which general Hospitals may be established, to consist of one military and one medical officer, who shall once in two weeks, or oftener, inspect the several Hospitals and Headquarters of convalescents, for the purpose of directing the transfer of soldiers from the Hospitals to the quarters of convalescents, and from these quarters to the regiments in the field, whenever the condition of the men and the interests of the service require it. Officers, superintending Hospitals and convalescent camps, will take especial care that these transfers are promptly and properly executed; and they are hereby authorized to make these transfers, whenever, in their judgment, the public service may require them. IV. The Provost Marshal General, and his Deputies, are hereby directed to return all stragglers from the Army to the Headquarters of convalescents. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BANKS: OFFICIAL: G. NORMAN LIEBER, Acting Assistant Adjutant General. Acting Assistant Adjutant General. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF. I. The Commanding General of the Corps d'Afrique is hereby authorized to detail from the line an additional Staff Officer, with the rank and pay of Captain, to be designated Corps Instructor," whose duty it shall be to superintend in garrison, and as far as may be consistent with military duty in the field, the education of men enrolled in the Corps d'Afrique. II. The Commanding Officer of each regiment is authorized to detail one additional Staff Officer, with the rank and pay of Lieutenant, to be designated "Regimental Instructor," whose duty it shall be, under the Regulations established for the government of the Corps, to teach the men of the Regiment the rudiments of learning. Requisition for such books and apparatus as may be necessary for the execution of this order, will be forwarded to the Headquarters of the Department for approval. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BANKS: G. NORMAN LIEBER, Acting Assistant Adjutant General. OFFICIAL: Acting Assistant Adjutant General. |