GENERAL ORDERS, 
NO. 122. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, July 8,1865. 
Regimental Officers of Volunteers on detached service to join their proper 
commands. 
1.. With the exceptions hereinafter enumerated, the following is 
ordered: 
1. All commissioned officers of Volunteers, for both white and colored 
regiments, or independent companies, now absent on detached service 
from their commands, and not on duty within their proper Armies or 
Departments, will proceed, forthwith, to join their respective regiments 
and companies. 
2. Hereafter, no commissioned regimental officer of Volunteers will 
be placed on duty, or transferred thereon, out of the Army or Department 
in which his regiment may be serving. 
The exceptions authorized under the foregoing are as follows: 
1. Officers on duty mustering out and discharging the Volunteer 
forces. 
2. Aides-de-Camp to General Officers on duty commanding troops. 
3. Officers on Courts Martial or Military Commissions, and those on 
duty in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 
under direct orders from the War Department, Adjutant General's Office. 
11.. All enlisted men absent on detached service from their regiments 
or companies and outside the Armies or Departments in which the same 
maybe serving, will at once be sent to join their respective commands, 
unless they are absent therefrom by orders from the Headquarters of a 
Military Division or superior authority. 
111.. Generals of Departments and Armies are charged 
with the prompt execution of this Order, and, upon its provisions being 
fully complied with, will report the fact to the Adjutant General of 
the Army. 
IV..No commissioned officer or enlisted man absent in violation of 
this Order, will be paid outside of the Army or Department in which 
his regiment or company may be serving. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.