GENERAL ORDERS*, 
No. 4. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, February 2(5, 1861. 
1.. following regulations in regard to the uniform of the Army 
are announced for the government and information of all concerned : 
1. The brim of dress hats worn by officers of Artillery and Infantry 
will be looped up on the right side, and the feathers worn on the left 
side. 
2. The forage caps issued to all enlisted men will be made with dark 
blue cord or welt around the crown, like that now proscribed for unas- 
signed recruits. 
3. Tho gutta pcrcha talma now used by the Cavalry will hereafter be 
a part of the equipment of the regiments of Dragoons and Mounted 
Riflemen. 
4. The number of men to the Sibley tent will be at the rate of seven- 
teen mounted and twenty foot. 
5. In time of actual service, General officers, and officers of the 
General Staff and Staff Corps, are permitted to use the horse equip- 
ments described for mounted service. 
6. Mounted officers of the Army can obtain horse equipments for 
their personal use at cost price, in the mode pointed out for Ordnance 
stores in paragraph 1237, General Regulations, by making application 
to the Colonel of Ordnance. 
11.. McLane and Fauntleroy, Department of New Mexico, are 
announced as double ration posts, the former from September 16, 1860, 
the latter from August 31, 1860, the dates of their occupation by 
troops. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.