Hardtack and coffee

by John Davis Billings

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 Head-Quarters.

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.

IV. Hospital tents must not be diverted from their legitimate use, except for offices, as authorized in paragraph II.

V. The wagons allowed to a regiment or battery must carry nothing but forage for the teams, cooking utensils for the men, hospital stores, small rations, and officers’ baggage. One of the wagons allowed for a regiment will be used exclusively for hospital stores, under the direction of the regimental surgeon. The wagon for regimental Head-Quarters will carry grain for the officers’ horses. At least one and a half of the wagons allowed to a battery or squadron will carry grain.