GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 28 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, March 22, 1862. 
1.. A military department to be called the Middle Department, and 
to consist of the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, 
the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia, and the counties of Cecil) 
Harford, Baltimore and Ann Arundel, in Maryland, is hereby created. 
Major General Dix, United States Volunteers, is assigned to the 
command ; headquarters at Baltimore. 
11.. No troops in the United States service will hereafter pass through 
the city of New York without reporting to the United States military 
authorities entrusted with the duty of providing subsistence and trans- 
portation in that city. Reports must he made and information obtained 
at the office, No. 79 White street. 
111.. His Excellency the Governor of New York has decided upon 
the following prices to be charged to the non-commissioned officers and 
privates of the several regiments from that State, now in the field, for 
articles of clothing heretofore furnished them by the State. The said 
prices have been fixed from the average cost of the several articles : 
For each infantry overcoat. . $8 63 
“ “ jacket 5 43 
“ “ trowsers.... 3 50 
“ fatigue cap 85 
“ pair of shoes, (pegged,) 1 20 
“ “ shoes, (sewed,) 1 98 
“ “ drawers 57 
“ “ socks 24 
“ shirt 88 
“ blanket 1 95 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.