GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 111. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, May 1, 1863. 
1.. From and after the first day of May, all enlistments of volunteers 
shall be under the special charge and direction of the Provost Marshal 
General, under the rules and regulations heretofore made, which are 
hereby continued in force, and such other rules of the Department as 
may from time to time be made. All disbursing officers, and all other 
officers connected with the enlistment of volunteers, will report to 
him. 
11.. 0fficers of regiments going out of service, by reason of the 
expiration of their term, may, with the consent of their respective 
Governors, re-enlist their regiments, within thirty days from the expira- 
tion of the original service, for a term of three years, unless sooner 
discharged; and upon the regiment being filled up within the thirty 
days aforesaid, the officers shall be restored to their rank as from the 
date of their original commissions. This, however, will give no claim 
to pay for the time between muster-out and re-entry into service. 
III. -The law provides that a man who enlists for three years, unless 
sooner discharged, is entitled to one month’s pay in advance upon the 
mustering of his company into the service of the United States, or 
after he shall have been mustered into and joined a regiment already 
in the service, and to a bounty of one hundred dollars, twenty-five 
dollars of which is to be paid in advance when his company is organ- 
ized, muster-in rolls made out, and the mustering officer’s certificate 
given thereto, or after he shall have been mustered into and joined a 
regiment already in the service. 
IV. .Hereafter, regiments of volunteers leaving the field on account 
of expiration of term of service will be permitted, on the application of 
their officers, who shall undertake to hold themselves responsible for 
their safe delivery, to take their arms and accoutrements to the place of 
discharge, to be delivered to the Governor of the State, or to officers 2 
appointed by him to receive them. The arms and accoutrements will 
be held subject to reissue to the men on re-enlistment in their former 
companies and regiments. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.