Summary:
These Union General Orders issued by the Department of Pennsylvania at Chambersburg in June, 1861, specify requirements and regulations for transportation and baggage trains of marching regiments.

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GENERAL ORDERS, No. 25. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA,

Chambersburg, Pa.,

June 5, 1861.

Cmdg. offices of brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies will give their attention to the following requirements, and will be held responsible to a strict compliance with them:

I. The allowance of transportation to troops on the march shall not exceed the following, and this as soon as practicable will be reduced under the direction of the chief quartermaster: A general officer and his staff, one wagon; field and staff and band of a regiment, one wagon; cavalry or horse artillery company, one wagon and a half; infantry company, one wagon. The baggage will be limited to musket cartridges, camp and garrison equipage, and officer's baggage (meet-chest and all persons effects included), not to exceed the regulation allowances, viz: Fort general officers, 125 pounds; field officers, 100 pounds; captains, 80 pounds; subalterns, 80 pounds.

By order of Maj.-Gen. Patterson:

F. J. PORTER,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 51, Serial No. 107, Pages 397, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.