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Page 653 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. --UNION. Chapter XXXIX.

II. For the headquarters of an army corps: 5 wagons for baggage, forage, subsistence, &c. ; 1 two-horse spring-wagon for contingent wants; 5 extra saddle-horses for contingent wants; 1 wall tent for personal use and office of commanding general; 1 wall tent for every 2 officers of his staff.

III. For the headquarters of a division: 4 wagons for baggage, forage, subsistence, &c. ; 1 two-horse spring wagon for contingent wants; 2 extra saddle-horses for contingent wants; 1 wall tent for every 2 officers of his staff.

IV. For the headquarters of a brigade: 3 wagons for baggage, forage, subsistence, &c. ; 1 wall tent for personal use and office of commanding general; 1 wall tent for every 2 officers of his staff.

V. For each full regiment of infantry and cavalry of 1, 000 men, 6 wagons for baggage, camp equipage, &c. For each regiment of infantry less than 700 men and more than 500 men, 5 wagons. Less than 500 and more than 300 men (infantry, 4 wagons. Less than 300 men (infantry, 3 wagons. For each regiment of infantry and cavalry, 3 wall tents for field and staff; 1 shelter tent for every other commissioned officer; 1 shelter tent for every 2 non-commissioned officers, soldiers, servants, and camp followers.

VI. For each battery of six guns: 3 wagons for baggage, commissary stores, forage, &c. ; 4 wagons for ammunition; 2 wagons for supply train; 3 wall tents for officers. For each battery of four guns: 2 wagons for baggage, commissary store; forage, &c. ; 3 wagons for ammunition; 2 wagons for supply train; 2 wall tents for officers. Shelter tents for non-commissioned officers, &c., same allowance as in infantry regiments.

VII. The supply train for forage, subsistence, quartermaster's stores, &c., to each 1, 000 men, cavalry and infantry, 7 wagons. to every 1, 000 men, cavalry and infantry, for small-arms ammunition, 4 wagons. To each 1, 500 men, cavalry and infantry, for hospital supplies, 3 wagons. To each brigade, cavalry and infantry, for commissary stores for sales to officers, 1 wagon. To each division, cavalry and infantry, for hauling forage for ambulance animals, portable forge, &c., 1 wagon. It is expected that each ambulance will carry the forage necessary for its own team. Every wagon, whether in baggage, supply, or ammunition train, will carry the supply of forage necessary for its own team.

VIII. The chief quartermasters of army corps will be held strictly responsible that these allowances are not exceeded; that the means of transportation, &c., now in the respective corps, be at once reduced to conform to the foregoing, and that all excess be immediately turned in to the nearest quartermaster's depot.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant.

RUFUS INGALLS,

Brigadier General, and Chief Quartermaster, Army of the Potomac,

July 11, 1863-9 a. m.

Brigadier General THOMAS H. NEILL,

Commanding at Waynesborough:

The major-general commanding directs that, on the receipt if this dispatch, you take up the line of march to rejoin the Sixth Corps. It may be necessary for you, in order to avoid the enemy in superior


Page 653 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. --UNION. Chapter XXXIX.