GENERAL ORDERS, No. 138. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, October 29, 1901. By direction of the Secretary of War, so much of General Orders, No. 136, October 19, 1901, from this office, as directs Troop D, 12th U. S. Cavalry, to proceed from Fort Bliss, Texas, to Fort Huachuca, Arizona Territory, is revoked. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General, U. S. Army. No. 139. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, November 2, 1901. I. By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, the following paragraph is added to the Regulations: 1595. To test the capacity of privates of the Hospital Corps for the duties of noncommissioned officers the Surgeon General and chief surgeons may appoint lance acting hospital stewards, who will hold such appointment not to exceed three months and will be obeyed and respected as acting hospital stewards. The appointments, with the approval of the Surgeon General or chief surgeon, may be renewed for three months, but no detachment shall have more lance acting hospital stewards at a time than enough to make the proportion of all noncommissioned officers present for duty one to four privates of the Hospital Corps. Lance acting hospital stewards are on the same footing regarding reduction as acting hospital stewards. A lance acting hospital steward will wear the uniform of a private with a chevron having one bar of braid. II. By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, paragraph 88 of the Regulations of 1901 is amended to read as follows: 88. The uniform of an officer on the retired list is that of his actual rank in his regiment or corps when retired. A retired officer with brevet commission, either in the regular or volunteer service of the Army of the United States, may wear the uniform of his highest brevet grade, and an officer who has held a commission, not brevet, in the volunteer service may wear the uniform of his highest grade in that service. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General, U. S. Army. |