GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 82. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, May 6, 1865. 
For reducing the number of Company and Staffi Officers of Volunteer 
Regiments. 
By direction of the President, all Company and Staff Officers of 
Volunteer Regiments absent from their commands on account of 
physical disability, or by virtue of leaves of absence granted them on 
their return to loyal States as prisoners of war, will be honorably 
mustered out of the service of the United States of date the fifteenth 
(15th) instant. 
Said officers will immediately apply, by letter, to the Adjutant General 
of the Army for their muster-out and discharge papers. In case of 
physical disability from disease or wounds, the letter must be accom- 
panied by a medical certificate of the usual form. 
The post office address of the officer must be given with care in a1! 
cases. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
W. A. NICHOLS, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.