GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 79. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, September 17, 1861. 
The Commanding Officer of theU. S. Forces at Hatteras Inlet, N. C., 
is authorized to accept the services of such loyal North Carolinians, 
not to exceed one regiment, as in his neighborhood may volunteer to 
take up arms for the United States, and to designate a regular officer 
to muster them into service. 
The recruits will be organized, in the first instance, into a battalion, 
or regiment, according to numbers. The mustering officer will make 
timely requisitions for arms and other necessary supplies, and the 
Commanding Officer will, on the recommendation of the volunteers, 
propose such persons as he may deem suitable, to officer the compa- 
nies, battalion, or regiment, that they may, if approved, be commis- 
sioned by the President. 
By order: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.