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HEADQUARTERS ARMY TENNESSEE,) 
 Dalton, Ga., Jan. 8, 1864. | 
 
 General Orders, No. 5. 
 
 I. The following regulations are published for the government 
 of the troops of this army in camp. They arc to be read at the 
 head of each company at least once every week. Copies are to 
 be furnished all iield, staff and company officers : 
 
 1st. The hours <*f service 
 
 Reveille, : : : 
 
 Police, : : 
 
 Surgeon's Call, 
 
 Stable Call, : 
 
 First Sergeant's Call, 
 
 Prcakfast, : 
 
 Adjutant's Call, 
 
 Drill, : : 
 
 Officers' Drill, 
 
 Dinner, : : 
 
 Drill, : : 
 
 Guard Mounting, 
 
 Stable Call, : 
 
 Camp and Company Police, 
 
 Dress Parade, : 
 
 S upper, : : 
 
 Tattoo, : : 
 
 Taps, : : 
 
 md |pll call as follows : 
 ^Vt day-light. 
 Immediately after reveille. 
 Fifteen minutes after reveille. 
 Fifteen minutes after reveille. 
 Half hour after rcrcille. 
 At sunrise. 
 At 9 A. M. 
 
 From 10 to Hi A. M. 
 From 11 A. M. to 12 M. 
 At 12$ P. M. 
 From 2£ to 4 P. M. 
 At 4 P. M. 
 At 4 P. M. 
 At 4-£ P. M. 
 At sunset. 
 
 Immediately after parade. 
 At 8 P. M.' 
 One hour after tattoo. 
 
 Men are not to be excused from duty of any kind except for 
 disability by their medical officers, and for meritorious conduct, 
 by their regimental commanders, or officers of higher rank. Com- 
 pany commanders and their subalterns are specially prohibited 
 from assuming this power in any case whatever. 
 
 II. The roll of the enlisted men of each company is to be 
 called, by the First Sergeant, at reveille, at morning and after- 
 noon drill, at dress parade, and at tattoo. 
 
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 III. The artillery of each division, though it may be camped 
 separately, is to report to Division Head-Quarters, and Division 
 Commanders arc responsible for the clue observance of all orders 
 therein. 
 
 In the artillery, all company officers are to attend the stable 
 call. 
 
 In the Quartermaster's department, Division Commanders are 
 to enforce the same rules, in respect to the care of the animals, 
 as in the artillery ; requiring all Quartermasters to attend the 
 stable ci Is for the animals of their trains; and in that depart- 
 ment, as also in the Commissary, Ordnance, and Medical Depart- 
 ments, they are to require roll Alls and reports of absentees at 
 reveille and tattoo, and the due performance of police and other 
 necessary duties. 
 
 IV. On Sundays there are no drills. Inspection is to be at 10 
 A. M., under the personal supervision of the brigade command- 
 ers, and the commanders of divisions are to supervise these in- 
 spections, being present With one of their brigades each Sunday. 
 
 Once a week, the commander of each division, accompanied by 
 all bis brigade commanders, will visit and thoroughly inspect the 
 camp of each brigade, including stores and Held transportation. 
 
 Whenever practicable, religious services are to be held in camp 
 on Sundays, when the utmost decorum is t) be observed. Reli- 
 gious services at night are not to extend beyond taps. 
 
 Y. At reveille and tattoo, the men are to be in ranks when 
 the drum stops beating. A preparatory signal is to be beaten 
 five minutes before all other calls, at which the men assemble on 
 their company grounds. Rank* are formed at the second beating 
 of the drum. When it stops the companies are called to atten- 
 tion, and those who fall in after this are to be reported as "late." 
 
 First Sergeants are to commit their rolls to memory, call them 
 promptly, and immediately report to the company officers of 
 highest rank present. When there are more than one of the 
 same surname numbers are to be used. 
 
 At reveille and tattoo, all company officers, are to be present, 
 and at least one is to be present at all other roll calls. 
 
 First Sergeants enter first in order for fatigue details ; all ab 
 sentees, " lates," and men whoso arms or accoutrements are in 
 
bad condition, or who are neglectful of cleanliness in their per- 
 sons, clothing, or tents. 
 
 The company officer to whom absentees are reported at any 
 roll call immediately reports them to the Adjutant of the regi- 
 ment, and the Adjutant reports to the Regimental Commander the 
 company officers improperly absent from such roll call, and the 
 regimental commander reports to the Commander of the Brigade. 
 The officers, to whom absentees are reported are to tak< prompt 
 measures for arresting and bringing .them to punishmen 
 
 VI. At Surgeon's call, the sick in camp assemble on iheir re- 
 spective company grounds, and are marched to the hospital hy a 
 non com missioned officer, one of^vhom is detailed daily for that 
 duty. Xniii' are to present themselves for treatment except in 
 this manner, without special permission. The non-commissioned 
 officer takes with him the company siek book, and returns it to 
 the First Sergeant after the Surgeon has made the proper entries 
 therein. 
 
 Company, Eegimental and Brigade Commanders are required, 
 at all times, to know how their sick are situated, and are responsi- 
 ble for the prevention of neglect and ill-treatment within the 
 limits of their respective commands. It is likewise made their 
 duty to see that the dead are decently interred, and the places of 
 burial suitably enclosed. 
 
 VII. At the call for guard mounting, the several guard details 
 assemble on their respective regimental color lines, are carefully 
 inspected, aud then marched to the general parade ground by the 
 First Sergeant. Guards are to he mounted strictly in accordance 
 with the Army Regulations, under the personal supervision of a 
 brigade staff officer, and the several regimental Adjutants are to 
 alternate in mounting the same. The guard house of each bri- 
 gade is to be sixty yards in front of the color line, and near the 
 center of the brigade, when the ground will admit of it. All 
 calls are to be sounded at the brigade guard house and promptly 
 repeated at the several regimental head-quarters. 
 
 VIII. The old guard, upon the next day after being relieved 
 is to be the general fatigue party for that day. Its duties are to 
 clean thoroughly all the encampment, except the company 
 grounds, and to perform such other labor as may be necessary. 
 
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 A non-commissioned officer and a sufficient number of* privates 
 of each company are to be detailed daily as company police, and 
 arc to thoroughly clean their company grounds immediately after 
 breakfast, and again at -H P. M. The Commanding Officer of 
 each company inspects his company grounds immediately after 
 the times above prescribed. At these inspections the quarters 
 are to be in perfect order, knapsacks properly packed, and bed- 
 ding neatly folded — the occupants of each tent or hut remaining 
 in front of the same during its inspection. 
 
 The brigade officer of the day is responsible for the due per- 
 formance of all police and fatigue duty within or near his lines. 
 lie is specially charged with sefl|iig that the sinks of regiments 
 and offal pits of companies are properly placed and arranged ? 
 and fresh earth thrown into them daily ; that slaughter pens are 
 kept at least half a mile from the camps, and not near any thor- 
 oughfare- the offal there buried daily, and the hides removed ; 
 that the wagon-yards and other places of keeping animals are 
 regularly and well policed ; and that nothing offensive to decency 
 or detrimental to health be anywhere visible. 
 
 IX. At the signal for parade, each company is formed on its 
 own company ground, under arms, and is thoroughly inspected by 
 its officers. When the music begins playing the companies are 
 marched, in their proper order, to the general parade, which is 
 the color line of each regiment. 
 
 X. At taps, all lights except those of commissioned officers, 
 non commissioned staff, and First Sergeants, are to be extinguish- 
 ed, and there is to be perfect quiet in the encampment, one offi- 
 eer of each company remaining on duty in his company grounds 
 for half an hour after taps, enforcing obedience to these require- 
 ments, and then reports to the Adjutant of the regiment. All 
 lights except those of the Field and Staff, are extinguished at 
 
 IIP. M. 
 
 XI. Brigade, Regimental and Company Commanders arc re- 
 quired to give close and constant attention to the quality and 
 quantity of the rations issued to their men, and the preparation 
 of the same as food. The various medical officers arc to make 
 frequent inspections of the issues of food and the cooking uten- 
 sils, and offer such suggestions, from time to time, as may seem 
 likely to promote the health of the command. 
 
XII. In each brigade a brigade guard is to be detailed every 
 day, consisting'of the proper number of commissioned and non- 
 commissioned <^cers, and men enough for a chain of sentinels 
 entirely surrounding the brigade encampment, including the sinks, 
 and, if practicable, the water. 
 
 Between daylight and dark, officers wearing their side arms are 
 to pass the chain of sentinels of the brigade guard at will ; and 
 within this period enlisted men without arms and accoutrements, 
 having the written permission of the Brigade Commander, are al- 
 lowed to pass the same chain of sentinels. But this does not 
 authorize them to absent themselves from any duty whatever, 
 nor to go more than live hundred «irds from their camps, unless 
 they are General Officers, Brigade«or Regimental Commanders, 
 their Staff Officers, orderlies, or couriers, when on duty. 
 
 Between dark and daylight the brigade guard challenges all 
 persons attempting to pass the lines. 
 
 At all hours, whether by day or night, the brigade guard ar- 
 rests all disorderly or suspicious persons. All citizens attempt- 
 ing to come within the lines will be sent to Brigade Headquarters. 
 
 There is also a patrol in each brigade moving day and night 
 through the encampment, arresting" suspicious persons, prevent- 
 ing nuisances, and suppressing all disorders. 
 
 XIII. From the Division there is detailed daily, or at longer 
 intervals, as circumstances may require, a picket guard, consist- 
 ing of the proper number of commissioned and non-commissioned 
 officers, and men enough to cover all approaches to the camp, 
 and to keep up, by day and night, an efficient patrol between the 
 several picket stations. It receives special instructions from time 
 to time. Each Brigade Officer of the day has immediate control 
 over the pickets detailed from his brigade, and is responsible for 
 their due performance of duty. 
 
 XIV. Every detachment maintains such guards as will effectu- 
 ally preserve order and prevent surprise. The smaller the body 
 the greater the necessity for vigilance. 
 
 While one relief of a guard is on post, and another sleeps, the 
 other relief is at the guard house, awake, and ready for any 
 emergency. 
 
 Officers and men detailed for guard duty are to take with them 
 
their blankets and cooked rations, and are not, on any pretence, 
 to revisit their quarters until relieved, unless in tta proper and 
 necessary discharge of duty. '^ K 
 
 XV; One of the commissioned officers of eggkguar d is requir- 
 ed to visit all the sentinels of each relief, assuring himself that 
 they know and correctly perform all their duties. 
 
 Brigade Ollieers of the day are to visit their guards at least 
 once before dark and once during the night, after 12 P. M., as- 
 certaining that both ollieers and men are properly instructed and 
 duly vigilant. 
 
 All the guards, patrols, fatigue and police parties of the com- 
 mand are under the general s m ervision and control of the Divis- 
 ion Officer of the day, and he is responsible for their due perform- 
 ance vt' duty, lie requires t^ose under him to make written re- 
 ports as soon as relieved, and forwards the same to Division Head- 
 quarters, with such comments and suggestions as he may think 
 expedient. He reports to the division commander in person when 
 relieved, accompanied by the new Division Officer of the day. 
 
 XVI. A sentinel should always be ready to tire, lie must, 
 however, be sure of the presence of an enemy before firing ; once 
 satisfied of that, he must lire at all hazards, as the safety of the 
 command may depend upon it. Sentinels fire on all persons de- 
 serting to the enemy, or breaking through the lines and failing 
 to stop when so ordered, and upon all persons whom it is their 
 duty to arrest, and who cannot otherwise be secured. 
 
 At the approack of officers or rounds of the guard, a sentinel 
 challenges, as prescribed by the Army Regulations. In other 
 cases he orders ki Halt," " About face," and calls the corporal of 
 the guard, with the number of the post. Persons on horseback 
 are to dismount when approaching sentinels. 
 
 Ollieers of guards are required so to regulate the movements of 
 the sentinels that they shall habitually turn on their posts at the 
 same time, and all turn and move in the same direction. 
 
 Due honors are to be paid by guards and sentinels, facing out- 
 wards to salute, and acknowledged by the officers so compli- 
 mented. Proper salutations are always to be exchanged at meet- 
 ing between officers, and betveen officers and privates. 
 
 XVII. All orders affecting the troops are to be read at the 
 head of each company, that all may distinctly hear them. 
 

 
 The Eules and Articles of War^if the Confederate States are 
 to be read to Saph company immediately before or after each mus- 
 ter for pay. ^fc earnestly hoped that little or no cause will be 
 given for enforew^the penalties therein pronounced against of- 
 fenders ; but all are distinctly notified and solemnly cautioned 
 that serious violations of the same will be dealt with as therein 
 provided, and no pardons granted. 
 
 XVIII. A spirit of courtesy is to be cultivated, and harmony, 
 devotion to the cause, obedience to^uperiors, and patient endu- 
 rance of all hardships sought to be made the distinguishing char- 
 acteristics of both officers and menj Language or conduct cal- 
 culated to cause discontent amonsjAe troops is not to be toler- 
 ated, and, in every instance, the (Sender is to be put in arrest 
 and brought to trial. This is madf*the duty of all officers of the 
 command. 
 
 The habit of entering private houses uninvited, begging food 
 from private families, and otherwise lessening the comforts or 
 increasing the burthens of the women and children of the coun- 
 try, is unsoldierly in the extreme. The practice of committing 
 depredations upon private properly is detestable. Officers of 
 all grades are to be held strictly accountable for the conduct of 
 their men in these respects, and all damages suffered by citizens 
 are to be deducted from the offender's pay. 
 
 Officers arc reminded that assiduous attention to every duty is 
 the sacred obligation resting on them ; and that the censure of 
 their own consciences, and of their countrymen everywhere, will 
 assuredly follow them up during the war, and to the end of life, 
 if they prove remiss in any respect.* The test of their fidelity is 
 in the condition of the troops which they command. Men well 
 disciplined, well instructed, and well cared for, point out the 
 honest officer and true patriot. The reverse shows an officer un- 
 worthy of his position, and faith 1 ess to the cause. 
 By command of 
 
 GENERAL JOHNSTON. 
 
 George Wm. Brent, A, A. Geii[, 
 
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