Summary:
Union Assistant Adjutant for the Department of Pennsylvania Fitz-John Porter
issues a list of regiments stationed in the Chambersburg area in June, 1861.
Porter also establishes guidelines for instruction.
SPECIAL ORDERS, NO. 66. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Chambersburg, Pa.,
June 10, 1861.
I. The following is the present organization of the brigades in this vicinity. Regiments will be taken from or attached to each brigade as circumstances require or as they arrive: First Brigade, Col. George H. Thomas, Second U. S. Cavalry, commanding: Cavalry; Capt. Doubleday's battalion of artillery and infantry; Rhode Island regiment and battery, Col. Burnside commanding; Sixth Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Nagle commanding; Twenty-first Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Ballier commanding; Twenty-third Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Dare commanding.
Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Wynkoop commanding: First Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Yohe commanding; Second Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Stumbaugh commanding; Third Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Minier commanding; Twenty-fourth Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Owen commanding.
Third Brigade, Brig.-Gen. William commanding: Seventh Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Irwin commanding; Eighth Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Emley commanding; Tenth Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Meredith commanding; Twentieth Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Gray commanding.
Fourth Brigade, Col. Dixon S. Miles, Second U. S. Infantry, commanding: Second and Third U. S. Infantry, Maj. Shepherd commanding; Ninth Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Longnecker commanding; Thirteenth Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Rowley commanding; Sixteenth Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Ziegle commanding.
Fifth Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Negley commanding: Fourteenth Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Johnston commanding; Fifteenth Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Oakford commanding.
Every officer must exert himself to put his individual command in the most effective condition, and keep it so for instant and rapid movement. Baggage must be reduced to the utmost.
II. Late inspections have detected culpable neglects, which the commanding general relies upon the commanding officers to whom they were pointed out to correct. If a regiment be not properly instructed properly supplied, and otherwise prepared so as to give assurance of efficiency, it will not be permitted to go to the front.
By order of Maj.-Gen. Patterson:
F. J. PORTER,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
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 397-398, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
