GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 154. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, October 9, 1862. 
The commanding officer of each regiment, battalion, and battery of 
the Kegular Army in the field, will appoint one or more recruiting offi- 
cers, who are hereby authorized to enlist, with their own consent, the 
requisite number of efficient volunteers to fill the ranks of their com- 
mand to the legal standard. 
The enlistments will be made in the usual mode, and for three years, 
or for the remaining portion of the period of three years which the 
volunteer has yet to serve, if he so prefer. 
The recruiting officers will furnish to the commanding officers of 
companies to which volunteers whom they may enlist belong, lists of 
such volunteers, exhibiting the dates of enlistment of each in the 
Regular Service. All the men upon such lists will be reported as hon- 
orably discharged the day previous to the date of their enlistment, on 
the first subsequent muster roll of their company. 
As an inducement to volunteers to enlist in the Regular Army, it will 
be remembered that promotion to commissions therein is open by law 
to its meritorious and distinguished non-commissioned officers; and 
that many have already been promoted. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.