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                   HEADQUARTERS,  DEPARTMENT OP THE TENNESSEE,
                                     Vicksburg, Miss., September 29,1863.
GENERAL ORDERS,)

      No.  59.         J
  I---All enlisted men on detached  service,  in  Army Corps  other than that in
which their regiments, detachments or companies are serving, except those  detailed
by orders from Department Headquarters, as nurses in General Hospitals and Hospi-
tal Steamers and clerks in Staff Departments, are hereby relieved from such detach-
ed service and will report to their respective commands for duty.
  Army Corps Commanders will see that this order is carried  into immediate execu-
tion.
  Tl---Company and Regimental Commanders will furnish to the officer in charge
of men of their respective commands, absent in Hospitals or at  parole camps, prop-
er descriptive lists and accounts of pay and clothing, to enable them to draw their
pay.  Such descriptive lists must contain the name, rank, description, where born,
occupation, when, where and by whom enrolled or enlisted, when, where, by whom
and for what period mustered, by what paymaster and to what  time  last paid,  the
bounty paid and amount  still due, and the amount due, to or from him, for clothing,
with the proper remarks showing his military history, etc.  Descriptive lists show-
ing less than this are valueless.  Hereafter, no enlisted men  will  be  sent  from his
company or regiment  without such descriptive list, as is herein required, being fur-
nished to the proper officer in charge, and any neglect to comply with this order will
subject the offender to trial by Court Martial and dismissal from the service.
  It will be the duty of all officers of the Inspector Generals Department to proper-
ly inspect and report any neglect of duty in this particular.
  Ill___Army Corps Commanders will announce in General Orders, the Acting As-
sistant Inspectors General of Districts, Divisions and Brigades within  their  respect-
ive Corps, and will authorize them to make inspections  and recommend the disposal
of unserviceable property, in accordance with Army Regulations and orders.
  So much of paragraph  3d of General Orders No. 30, current series, from these
Headquarters, as requires the Acting Assistant Inspectors General  of Districts,  Di-
visions and Brigades to report direct to the Assistant Inspector  General at  Depart-
ment  Headquarters, is revoked, and all reports required by Army  Regulations and
existing orders will be forwarded through the proper Military channels.
  IV___So much of General Orders No. 49, current series from these Headquarters,
as establish the rates  of transportation and  subsistance  of Commissioned  Officers
traveling on steamboats within  this Department,  is hereby  revoked, and in  lieu
thereof is substituted the rates of Military transportation and subsistence  establish-
ed by Col. Lewis B. Parsons, Assistant Quartermaster  and General Superintendent
of Transportation, at St.  Louis, Mo., August 1st,  1863, viz:
        TO OR FROM  ST. LOUIS  TO THE FOLLOWING PLACES—
    Cairo  or  Columbus..............$4.00     Vicksburg............$16.00
    Memphis........................ 10.00      Port  Hudson........  18.00
    Helena.......................... 12.00      New Orleans.........  20.00
  And to or from all intermediate points  at  like  rates  in  proportion  to  distance
transported.
  Enlisted men will be entitled to travel as cabin passengers, when they desire it, at
same rates.
    By Order  of Major General U. S. Grant.
                                                  JNO.  A. RAWLINS,
                           Brig. Gen. and Acting Assistant AdjtUantmGeneral.
[Official:]
Assistant  Adjutant General.