General Orders, 
No. 287. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, 
Washington, November 28, 18(54. 
Order for raising and organizing a new Volunteer Army Corps. 
1.. an Army Corps, to consist of not less than twenty thou- 
sand infantry, and enlisted for not less than one year, to be desig- 
nated the First Corps, shall be organized in the District of Columbia, 
commencing the organization on the first day of December, 1804, 
and continuing until the first day of January next. The privates 
to consist only of able bodied men who have served honorably not 
less than two years and therefore not subject to draft; the officers 
to be commissioned from such as have honorably served not less 
than two years. 
11.. will be furnished transportation to Washington; will 
be credited to the district in which they or their families are domi- 
ciled : and will be paid a special bounty of three hundred dollars, 
from the substitute fund, upon being mustered into service. Each 
recruit who preserves his arms to the end of his term may retain 
them as his own, upon being honorably discharged from service. 
111.. of organization will be prescribed by the Adjutant 
General. The Heads of Bureaux will detail competent officers for 
the prompt examination and organization, arming, equipping, and 
supplying the Corps, 
IV...Major-General Hancock is assigned to the command of this 
Corps, Headquarters at Washington. 
order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.