GENERAL ORDERS, 
No 174 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, April 22, 1*64. 
Employment of Cavalry organizations not mounted. 
Cavalry organizations which cannot immediately be supplied with 
horses, will be armed and employed temporarily as Infantry. They 
may be used to guard depots and railroads, or be assigned to Infantry 
brigades in the field. When regiments so assigned are partially 
mounted, the horses will be transferred to others. 
Commanders of departments and separate armies are authorized to 
dismount and employ as Infantry any Cavalry regiment which has been 
neglectful or wasteful of its horses, or has proved inefficient in the field, 
and transfer its horses to others. 
The proportion of Cavalry to be temporarily converted into Infantry 
will not exceed forty per cent, of any command, unless it be found that 
the remaining sixty per cent, cannot be kept efficiently mounted. 
order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General,