The separate battalion or company would issue orders on the same general plan as post general orders. The order number would appear thus:
Orders: }
No. 6. }
SPECIAL ORDERS differ from General Orders in that the former refer to individuals.
Here is an example of a War Department Special Order.
SPECIAL ORDERS }WAR DEPARTMENT,
No. 289. } Washington, December 11, 1916.
1. The leave of absence on account of sickness granted John J. Nobbo, First Lieutenant, 13th Cavalry, in Special Orders, No. 196, War Department, August 22, 1916, is extended three months on surgeon’s certificate of disability, and upon the expiration of this leave Lieut. Nobbo will report to the commanding officer, Fort Riley, Kan., for examination as to his physical condition by the surgeon at the post.
These Special Orders then take up twenty different individuals in twenty paragraphs and end with,—
22. Capt. Alfred W. Perkins, Infantry, Detached Officers’ List, will repair to this city and report in person to the Chief of Staff for duty in connection with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and upon completion of this duty will return to his proper station. The travel directed is necessary in the military service.
(2503282, A. G. O.)
By Order of The Secretary of War: