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Instructions to Ordnance Officers in the Field. 
 
 1st. The Chief of Ordnance of an army corps, and ordnance officers 
 of separate commands, -will correspond with the Chief of the Bureau of 
 Ordnance relative to supplies of ordnance and ordnance stoics, with the 
 commands to which they are attached. Requisitions made, whether for 
 money or stores, will be approved by the General commanding. 
 
 2d. The division ordnance officers will correspond with the Chief of 
 Ordnance of the army corps to which the divisions are attached, and obtain 
 supplies through him. They will be responsible for the property under 
 their charge, and may have an ordnance officer or military storekeeper to 
 assist in the care and responsibility of the property. 
 
 3d. Division ordnance officers will obtain one or more wagons for each 
 regiment in their division, as ordnance wagons. These wagons will be 
 separate from the train off wagons for reserve ammunition, and will be 
 marked with the name of/the regiment to which they are assigned, and 
 will be placed in charge of the Ordnance Sergeant of the regiment. The 
 wagons will be covered, if possible, with painted cloth covers, for secu- 
 rity against the weather, and each wagon will be supplied with a spare 
 tarpaulin. These wagons will habitually follow their respective regiments. 
 
 4th. On the eve of battle the division ordnance officer will, under 
 direction of the Chief of Ordnance of the army, station the ordnance 
 wagons at the point selected for the division field depot of ammunition 
 under charge of his assistant ; each train of brigade ammunition wagons, 
 under charge of the senior Ordnance Sergeant of the brigade. He will 
 keep himself acquainted with the movements of brigades, and cause the 
 wagons of any brigade, which may be detached, to follow the movements 
 of the brigade. 
 
 5th. The Ordnance Sergeants, together with the details habitually as- 
 signed to them for then regiments, will constitute a corps devoted as well 
 to the preservation of the captured and other ordnance stores as to the 
 supplies of ammunition of the various regiments. One man of each 
 
detail should follow the movements of the regiment, to ascertain its 
 wants, and communicate with the field depot, The habitual details from 
 each regiment should be augmented before a battle, to not less than six 
 men from eacli regiment. The ammunition Avagons, their loads tempo- 
 rarily removed, will, as circumstances favor, be employed to carry to the 
 rear such arms and other captured stores as are left upon the battle field. 
 
 6th. Especial care must be taken in selecting competent, prompt and 
 efficient men for the duties of Ordnance Sergeants. They may be re- 
 moved for cause, and new appointments ordered, on the application of 
 the division ordnance officers, through the Chief of Ordnance of the 
 army corps, by the Commanding General. 
 
 7th. The ammunition wagons to each regiment will not supersede the 
 necessity for division supply trains. 
 
 Duties of Ordnance Sergeants, 
 
 1st. To obey the directions of the division ordnance officer, or of the 
 brigade ordnance officer (if the brigade is a separate command), in all 
 relative to care and preservation of arms, and duties connected therewith. 
 
 2d. To take charge of all supplies, arms and ammunition, of the regi- 
 ment, and make returns of the same according to " Ordnance Regula- 
 tions." 
 
 Issues to be made on written requisitions approved by the Colonel, or 
 commanding officer of the regiment; which requisitions are to be filed 
 with his " return of property." 
 
 3d. To take charge of the ordnance wagon or wagons attached to each 
 regiment, and to see that it always contains at least 15 rounds per man of 
 the regiment — surplus arms or accoutrements to be turned over to the 
 brigade or division ordnance officer. 
 
 4th. To supervise the condition of the arms of the regiment, and get 
 a detail of at least two mechanics to assist him in the necessary repairs to 
 
the arms; an account of these repairs to be kepK as 
 
 against each man of the regiment. R< pairs to be made on the order of 
 
 the Colonel of the regiment. 
 
 5th. To take charge of the arms and accoutrements of the sick of the 
 regiment in hospitals, which will be kept until the sick are sent to the 
 general hospital, when their arms wiU be turned over to the brigade or 
 division depots. 
 
 6th. In battle it will be the duty of the Ordnance Sea 
 with the ammunition wagons, and act with the details assigned to tl em 
 from the regiments, under the orders of the ordnance officer, in supplying 
 the troops with ammunition, coll. rms of the killed and wounded 
 
 and securing captured arms and ammunition. 
 
 Approved : 
 
 May 20, 18C-2. 
 
 G. W. RANDOLPH 
 
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