Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
GENERAL ORDERS, \ 
No. 60. 5 
Richmond, May 13, 1863. 
I. The exigencies of the service requiring a large number of artillery 
horses, all public horses suitable for that Service, employed in transporta- 
tion or otherwise with armies in the field, will be turned over to the Chief 
Quartermasters of said armies, and will supply their places where neces- 
sary with mules. The Chief Quartermasters of armies are charged with 
the prompt execution of this order, under the direction of the Commanding 
Generals. 
11. At posts or depots other than those immediately belonging to armies 
in the field, all public horses suited for artillery will be collected under 
the orders of Major A. H. Cole, Inspector General Field Transportation, 
for the purpose named above, and mules substituted where necessary. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.