GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 59. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, June 5, 1862. 
A Camp of Instruction for fifty thousand men—Cavalry, Artillery 
and Infantry, in due proportions—will be immediately formed near 
Annapolis, Md. Major General Wool, U. S. Army, will command the 
Camp, in addition to his duties as Department Commander. The 
ground will be selected, and the troops, which will be assembled as 
rapidly as possible under orders from the War Department, will be 
placed in position as they arrive. Brigadier General L. P. Graham is 
assigned to duty as Chief of Cavalry at the Camp. Brevet Brigadier 
General Harvey Brown as Chief of Artillery, according to his brevet. 
A Chief of the Infantry arm will hereafter be designated. The Chief 
of Ordnance, the Quartermaster General, Commissary General, Surgeon 
General, and Paymaster General, will each designate an experienced 
regular officer as the Chief of their respective departments at the Camp. 
These officers will be subject to the orders of General Wool, and under 
his supervision will, without delay, establish a hospital, and depots 
of all the supplies necessary for the health and efficiency of the troops 
at points where issues may be conveniently made. 
The long experience of the veteran officer assigned to command the 
Camp will dictate the most efficient details for brigading, equipping, 
drilling, and disciplining the Reserve Corps d’Arnffie to be thus formed 
under him. Chiefs of the different Staff Bureaux are hereby directed 
to aid him by promptly meeting his reasonable requisitions for the 
material of war. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.