Major Zeilin will make the necessary arrangement.
The bands of music from the Powhatan, Susquehanna, and Mississippi, will be in attendance.
Four boats will be sent from each of the steamers and the Macedonian, carrying forty seamen in addition to the boats’ crews, and their proportion of marines and musicians.
Three boats from the Vandalia, to carry thirty men as above.
One boat from each of the storeships to assist in carrying the marines, &c., on shore.
Half of the captains to remain on aboard. Those who land will leave the first lieutenant in charge of the ship. There will be subsequent opportunities for all to land who wish it.
Three officers from each ship can join the escort.
The officers to be in undress-uniform, frock-coats, cap, swords, epaulets, and pistol.
The men armed with musket, sword, and pistol, and dressed in blue jackets and trowsers, and white frocks.
The musicians armed with sword and pistol, and all to be provided with musket or pistol cartridge-boxes.