Allowance of transportation, tents, and baggage.
General Orders, No. 153.
I. The following allowance of wagons is authorized:
| For the Headquarters of an Army Corps | Four |
| For the Headquarters of a Division or Brigade | Three |
| For a Battery of Light Artillery, or Squadron of Cavalry | Three |
| For a full regiment of Infantry | Six |
This allowance will in no case be exceeded, but will be reduced to correspond as nearly as practicable with the number of officers and men actually present.
All means of transportation in excess of the prescribed standard will be immediately turned in to the depot, with the exception of the authorized supply trains, which will be under the direction of the
Chief Quartermasters of Corps.
The
Chief Quartermaster of this Army will direct the organization of the supply trains.
II.
The Army must be prepared to bivouac when on marches away from the depots.
The allowance of tents will therefore be immediately reduced to the following standard, and no other accommodations must be expected until a permanent depot is established:
For the Headquarters of an Army Corps, Division, or Brigade, one wall tent for the
General Commanding, and one to every
two officers of his staff.
To each full regiment, for the
Colonel, Field and Staff officers, three wall tents.
For all other commissioned officers,
one shelter tent each.
For every two non-commissioned officers, soldiers, officers' servants, and camp followers, as far as they can be supplied,
one shelter tent.
One hospital tent will be allowed for office purposes at Corps Head-Quarters, and
one wall tent at Division and Brigade Headquarters.
All tents in excess of this allowance will be immediately turned in to the depots.
Tents of other patterns required to be exchanged for shelter tents will be turned in as soon as the latter can be obtained from the Quartermaster's department.
Under no circumstances will they be allowed to be carried when the Army moves.
III.
The allowance of officers' baggage will be limited to blankets, a
small valise or
carpet bag, and a reasonable mess-kit.
All officers will at once reduce their baggage to this standard.
The men will carry no baggage except blankets and shelter tents.
The
Chief Quartermaster will provide storage on the transports for the knapsacks of the men and for the officers' surplus baggage.
