t>ee military ^cUool To** -Ul^ Supervisory Coim«vr*tt«« Tov Class. Book. FREE MILITARY SCHOOL FOR APPLIGAHTS FOR COMMAND OF COLORED TROOPS, No. 1210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, ESTABLISHED BY THE ' SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE FOR RECRUITING COLORED REGIMENTS, JOHN H. TAGGART, Late Colonel 12tla Regiment Pennsylvania Reservea, CHIEF PRECEPTOR. SEC03^TID EIDITIOZST- PHILADELPHIA: KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, 607 SANSOM STREET. 1864. 4" -fe^ OFFIOEES OF OOLOEED TEOOPS. The edition of eight tliousand of the Prospectus of the Free Military School for Applicants for Command of Colored Troops, established by the Philadelphia Supervisory Com- mittee for Eecruiting Colored Kegiments, issued 28th December last, having been exhausted, and the interest felt in the subject being unabated, a second edition has become a necessity. When the Government adopted the policy of organizing colored troops, it constituted a Board of Examiners, whose duty it is to examine all persons, whatever their rank, who make application for commissions in that branch of the public service. Major-Geneeal SILAS CASEY is the permanent President of the Board. The other members of the Board, consisting of two Colonels, one Lieutenant- Colonel, one Surgeon, and one Lieutenant, who is ex officio the Kecorder, are changed from time to time, according to the exigencies of the public service, but the President being permanent, the utmost regularity and uniformity of exami- nation and decision are secured. Up to December 26th, one thousand and fifty-one appli- cants had been examined; of these, five hundred and sixty were passed, and four hundred and ninety-one were rejected. The applicants are first examined in Infantry Tactics, Army Eegulations, and in regard to their general informa- tion. They are then turned over to the Surgeon for physical examination. If found capable, they are recommended to the "War Department, to be appointed to such positions as they have respectively been adjudged competent to fill. Every candidate stands upon his merits — ^the most obscure corporal or private stands an equal chance with the most favored and influential citizen. Ko recommendations; how- ever Hgli; are regarded as any compensation for lack of qualifications; and while the best testimonials that can be offered are the evidence of faithful and competent military service in the field; it is not to be understood that actual experience in the service is an indispensable pre-requisite. A large number of the successful applicants have had no such experience, having but recently left the school, the college; the desk; farm or workshop; and by a few weeks' diligent stu.dy of the elementary bookS; fitted themselves for command; as Lieutenants or CaptainS; and in some in- stances as Majors and Lieutenant- Colonels. THE QUALIFICATIONS EEQUIEED. First; the applicant must be physically sound, in order that he may endure the required service; and not neces- sarily fail in the discharge of the duties of his position; and soon become a pensioner upon the bounty of the Govern- ment, without the possibility of equivalent service. If a Lieutenant, he should understand and be able to explain the elementary principles laid down in Casey's In- fantry Tactics, as found in the school of the Soldier, Com- pany and Battalion. He should comprehend the duties of sentinels; guardS; &c., as contained in the Army Regula- tions. He should know all about Muster and Pay Rolls, Descriptive Lists, and how to keep Company books. And withal, should have at least such education as can usually be obtained at a common school. The range of study for this grade is exceedingly moderate, and the position is attainable by any bright young man having a fair common school education. If a Captain, l[iQ Tcm^i possess all the qualifications pre- scribed for a Lieutenant, but must be more thoroughly ^(^e posted, and slioiild be proficient in Battalion movements; and have a better general education. A Field Officer is examined as closely in regard to ele- mentary principles, as a Captain or Lieutenant, and is set down for the position of ^ Major, Lieut. Colonel, or Colonel, according as he shall show himself additionally qualified for the superior position desired. A field ofiicer should, in addition to his own peculiar duties, understand the duties of line of&cers, and be able to instruct them/ if deficient. The Colonel of a Regiment should be a gentleman of very superior qualifications. He should be capable of giving exact instructions in the entire system of Infantry Tactics, as authorized by the War Department, known as Casey's Tactics, in three volumes. He should be master of the entire subject of Army Regulations, so far as the same relate to the duties and business of a regiment, and should withal be a man of rare spirit, industry, and executive ability. He should be able to detect, instantly, the errors of all ofiicers under him ; should be able to impart instruc- tion to all, and to decide correctly on the instant, all ques- tions referred to him. No talents, no zeal, no sympathy for the colored race, unless attended with military knowledge, and power to command men in battle, can avail ; and no amount of pre- tence or number of testimonials of influential friends will answer the purpose ; the applicant must give reasonable evidence of his ability to command. If pretence without merit, or zeal without knowledge, or mere recommendations of personal and political friends would be suf6.cient evidence of fitness to command, an examination would be an idle and useless ceremony. It is the obvious duty of the Board of Examiners to select the best ofS.cers possible from those who come before it. 6 THE UEGENT lEED OF OFFIOEES. lN"ow, that it has become the fixed policy of the Govern- ment to use Colored Troops to a large extent, its efforts to organize regiments are seriously hampered by the want of competent officers to train and command them. Up to 26th December last, abont forty -sGYen per cent, of the appli- cants for command have been rejected for lack of knowl- edge. Of these three hundred and seventy-two, (372) were officers, privates, or non-commissioned officers from the army, and most of this particular class, and very many others from civil life, would have passed the Board and obtained commissions, if they had, under an efficient teacher, de- voted a few weeks to the study of the principles and details laid down in the books on Tactics and Army Eegulations. The rejection of so large a proportion of the applicants, particularly of so many earnest and brave soldiers who have stood the shock of battle, has doubtless deterred num- bers from offering themselves for examination, and it is feared that a general but unjust impression has been made, both in the army and in the public mind, that the examina- tion by the Board is too severe, and that few, but those who have enjoyed a collegiate education, or have actually commanded troops in the field with credit, can pass the Board. ISTothing could be further from the fact. Whilst the Board properly insists that the applicant must show true knowledge of the principles of tactics and capacity to com.- raand men, and take good care of them, and whilst it inflexibly rejects all who fall short in these essentials, the Board de- plores the stern necessity which compels it to reject good men, particularly soldiers whose deficiencies might be over- come by a few weeks careful preparation. With the knowledge of these facts, and in order to meet the increased demands for officers to command Colored Troops, The Philadelphia Supervisory Committee for Kecruiting Colored Regiments, at the suggestion of the Board of Examiners at ^(^/ Washington, has established a Free School for Military Tactics, in its Bnilcling, No, 1210 Chestnut street. The Committee has secured the services of well recommended and experienced. oiEcerS; officers and professors competent to faithfully instruct applicants in Infantry Tactics, Army Eegulations, Mathematics, and thoroughly prepare them for successful examination. The School is amply sup- plied with books and everj^thing necessary to its com- plete organization. The Committee invites young men in civil Jife, loho are physically sound, and especially privates and non-commissioned officers in service, who may aspire to command colored soldiers, to avail themselves of the facilities which this free military school oJB^ers. Camp William Penn, the largest camp existing for the organization and disciplining of Colored Troops, is in the immediate vicinity of the city, of easy access at low rates of fi^];e. Arrangements have been made with Colonel Wagner, Post Commander, by which Students of this School, upon the recommendation of the Preceptor, will be allowed to sojourn temporarily at the camp and exercise the functions of officers, in assisting to drill and train the Regiments that may be organizing there. The superior comforts and cheapness of living, remarka- ble in Philadelphia, offer special attraction to all who may seek the advantages of the School, and especially to those of moderate means. Good board can be had at from $3 50 to $5 per week. The Committee trusts that its efforts, by means of a Mili- tary School, to provide what the country so urgently needs at the present time — namely, applicants competent to be officers in the Colored Eegiments — will be handsom.ely re- sponded to by the spirited young men of the country — ^by those in the army, as well as those in civil life, and that it may be able to speedily furnish the Board of Examiners a sufficient number of applicants well-grounded in the knowl- edge of tactics, and otherwise fitted to command troops, who may pass examination and thus largely relieve the 8 "War Department from tTie great pressure now existing for officers to organize and train the hosts of colored men now seeking to enter the service of their country. The foregoing prospectus of the Free Military School, was published December 26th, 1863, on which day the school was opened with two students (both of whom are now Captains in command of colored troops), under John H. Taggart, late Colonel of 12th P. E. Y. C, and up to the present time the applications for admission have been sixteen hundred and ninety-one — much the larger portions of which have been from soldiers in the hospitals, on fur- lough^ or in the field ; forty-six of these applicants have been rejected for the self-evident want of education on the part of the applicants ; eight hundred and two of the applicants are defective, not being accompanied with testi- monials of good character, and otherwise irregular, and have been referred back to the applicants for correction ; the remainder, viz., eight hundred and forty-three, have been passed on affirmatively. Of the latter class, four hundred and twenty-two are now, or have been on the rolls, the rest are on their way to the school from the difterent sections of the country in which they reside, or, they are soldiers in the army before the enemy and are waiting at the present time for furloughs. The Committee has persistently urged the War Depart- ment to grant furloughs for a brief period, to select num- bers of intelligent, educated and well recommended soldiers now in the field, in order that they might partake of the advantages of the school. The Department, after a thorough consideration of the subject, has concluded to allow such facilities to this class, and has issued the fol- lowing order : J^t^ -General Okdeks, ) "^^^^ Department, ^ Adjutant Gen.'s Office, ^^- 12o." ) M^ashington, March 29, 1864.'' " Furloughs, not to exceed thirty days in each case, to the non-commissioned officers and privates of the army who may desire to enter the Free Military School at Phila- delphia, may be granted by the Commanders of Armies and Departments, when the character, conduct and capacity of the applicants are such as to warrant their immediate and superior commanders in recommending them for commis- sioned appointments in the regiments of colored troops. " By order of the Secretary of War. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General^ Official : The rapid influx of students, from the hospitals, the army, and from almost every section of the country, vary- ing from eighteen to forty-eight years of age, and from nearly every profession, trade and calling, has been highly gratifying to the Committee. Increased accommodations and additional preceptors in the different branches of study were promptly provided to meet the large increase of the sc*hool. By table No. 4, it will be seen that many of the students have enjoyed liberal education, and it is worthy of note that some of them are the sons or relatives of distinguished men ; it also shows the number that have entered the school, the numbers dropped, withdrawn, examined by the board at Washington, and now remaining in the school, and the States from whence they come. Table IsTo. 3, or the KoLL OF Honor, shows the names of the students who have passed the board, their ages, places of birth, education, rank when entering the school, and the rank for which they have been recommended. The average daily attendance at the school, by the con- solidated morning report, is one hundred and ninety-four. 10 Strict military government is enforced, and the School is also formed as a battalion of four companies under com- mand of students appointed by the Chief Preceptor to act as of&cers, and twice each day is exercised in the school of the company and the school of the battalion, in an excel- lent parade ground a short distance from head-quarters. The following is the present organization of the School : CHIEF PBECEFTOK. JOHN H. TAGOART, (Late Colonel 12th Eegiment Pennsylvania Reserve Corps,) PBOFESSOR OF INFANTRY TACTICS AND ARMY REGULATIONS. , ASSISTANT PEOFESSORS. MILITARY STAFF. ALBERT L. MAGILTOIST, (Graduate of West Point Military Academy, and late Colonel 4tli Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Corpse PROFESSOR OP INFANTRY TACTICS AND ARMY REGULATIONS. liEVI FETTERS, (Late Captain 175th Pennsylvania Regiment.) professor of infantry tactics and army regulations. Student DANL. W. HERR, (Late 1st Lieutenant Co. E., 122d Pennsylvania Regiment.) POST ADJUTANT. Student J. HALE SYPHER, of Penna. FIELD ADJUTANT. Student LOUIS M. TAFT, M. D., (Graduate of University of Penna.) SURGEON. ACADEMIC! STAFF, JOHN P. BIRCH, A. M., A. E. ROGERSON, A. M., PB0FES80RS OF MATHEMATICS, GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. "WM. L. WILSON, LIBRARIAN AND PHONOGRAPHIC CLERK. Student CHARLES BENTRICK, Sr., POSTMASTER. JAMES BUCHANAN, (Colored,) MESSENGER. 11 It has been the aim of the Committee from the first to make the School eminently national in its character, and it is with pleasure that the Committee refers to the various tables appended, showing the nativity of the applicants for admission, of the students in the School, and of those who have graduated, in proof that it has been able to accomplish its design. . It is no less gratifying to be able to refer to the subjoined letters from the Hon. Secretary of War and Major-General Silas Casey commending the School. War Department, Washington City, March 21, 1864. Thomas Webster, Esq., Chairman, 1210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Sir : — The project of establishing a free Military School for the education of candidates for the position of commis- sioned officers in the Colored Troops, receives the cordial approval of this Department. Sufficient success has already attended the workings of the institution to afford the pro- mise of much usefulness hereafter in sending into the service a class of instructed and efficient officers. Yery respectfully. Your obedient servant, EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. Washington, D. C, March 7th, 1864. Dear Sir : — ^Yours of the 4th instant is received, and I have directed the Secretary of the Board to attend to your request. It gives me great pleasure to learn that your School is prospering, and I am also pleased to inform you that the Board of which. I am President have not as yet rejected one of your candidates. I am gratified to see that the necessity of procuring competent officers for the armies of the Eepublic is beginning to be better appreciated by the public. 12 I trust I shall never have occasion to regret my agency in suggesting the formation of your School, and I am sure the country owes your Committee much for the energy and judgment with which it has carried it out. The liberality which opens its doors to the young men of all the States is noblC; and does honor to those citizens of Philadelphia from whom its support is principally derived. Truly yours, SILAS CASEY, Major- General. To Thomas "Webstek, Esq., Chairman, 1210 Chestnut Street, Philadel;phia, Beside endeavoring to supply the government with com- petent candidates for the command of Colored Troops, the Committee has resolved to extend the privileges of the School to all who may be about to go before the Board of Examiners for the Veteran Eeserve Corps (late the Invalid Corps), and it waits only for further increased accommoda- tions before publicly inviting all oflS.cers, non-commissioned ofS.cers, and privates seeking command in that branch of service, to enter the School. This determination, and the immediate and very large increase in the number of stu- dents which may be expected to follow the diffusion of General Orders No. 125, in the army, make it imperative that the accommodations and facilities of the School should be promptly doubled or trebled. JSTo time will be lost in securing them. A short time since it was found, on inspection, that of over three thousand colored troops — chiefly the late slaves of rebels, enlisted in Maryland — not one could " read, write and cipher" well enough to correctly discharge some of the duties of non-commissioned ofS.cers. At the suggestion of the chief mustering and recruiting officer for Colored Troops for that State, Col. S. M. Bowman, of 84th P. Y., and late a member of the board for examining applicants for command of Colored Troops, the Committee invited .S^if 13 active, intelligent, educated young men of color in Mary- land, to enlist, with the view of becoming non-commissioned officers in regiments to be raised in that State, promising to them military teaching and training at this School. Twenty-one spirited young men of color have responded to the invitation, and have been mustered in and sent hither for that purpose. The Preceptors and the more ad- vanced Students have volunteered to teach these colored patriots, and an auxiliary School has been commenced in the Head Quarters for the purpose of teaching and training- colored soldiers for the posts of non-commissioned officers. This Committee, formed to encourage and supervise the recruiting of Colored Troops, while actively continuing its efforts in that direction, will steadily strive to furnish these troops with humane, educated and skilled officers, and in every other way do its utmost to assist the government to subdue the Eebellion and exterminate Slavery. THOMAS WEBSTEE, Ghairmnan. Cadwaladee Biddle, Secretary. Head-Quarters of Supervisory Connnittee \ for Eecruiting Colored Kegiments. Philadelphia, March Sls^, 1864. Directions to Applicants for Admission TO THE FREE MILITARY SCHOOL ESTABLISHED BY THE PHILADELPHIA SUPEEVISOET COMMITTEE FOB EECKUITIJSTG COLOEED TROOPS. I. Eacli applicant must apply to the Committee for admission bv letter, wholly composed and written by him- self, stating his residence, age, occupation and attainments. If he is in the army, he must state how long he has been in military service, and the character of such service ; and if he has been in battle, state when and where. If he has been in the army, and is now mustered out, he must state the exact reason for being out of the service. This letter of application must be accompanied by some written testimonial of the applicant's good character. If he is in the army, his good character, his fitness for com- mand, and his military record, should be endorsed on his application by his superior ofS.cer in his own command, and this will be a sufS.cient guarantee of good character. If he is a civilian, he must have a certificate of good character from some respectable citizen of his neighbor- hood, who must certify on his personal knowledge of the applicant. II. A good common school education is essential to admission. The only exception to this rule will be in favor of such as can show a fine military record in the field — a record that shall indicate true military genius. The following need not apply, viz. : Sucli as are intern- jjerate ; such as seek the service for lack of a better business ; such as have been, while in the military service, frequently X^6' 15 sick at the hospital ; and such as are proved to he ill whenever there is a hard march on hand, or a battle in prospect. III, Applicants having a superior general education are informed that the Board at Washington, after examining them on tactics, will question them in the various branches of knowledge they have studied, with the view of ascer- taining the extent of their capacity to acquire and retain knowledge, and with a view of recommending them for the highest rank that their proficiency in tactics will justify. IV. As soon as the students, in the judgment of the Chief Preceptor, are likely to pass a favorable examination, appli- cation will be made for permission for them to appear before the Board, and whilst waiting for such permission, students will be sent to Camp William Penn, to temporarily exer- cise the functions of officers of Colored Troops. Y. The Committee will do all in its power to secure an early examination by the Board at Washington, of such students as the Chief Preceptor shall recommend, and in every other way exert itself to save the students their time and expenses. VI. Persons having, in their own judgment, such profi- ciency in tactics, army regulations, and general education, as will enable them to pass a favorable examination, may, if they desire it, have a preliminary examination by the Chief Preceptor, and if his opinion is favorable, and they have certificates of general good character, they will be im- mediately recommended for examinations for command, or if the Preceptor should not pass favorably on them, they may enter the School and acquire the requisite knowledge. The attention of privates and non-commissioned officers of the army is specially invited to this, VII. It should be distinctly understood, that the instruc- tion, use of books, maps, blocks, and opportunities of camp 16 experience, are all gratuitous. All personal expenses, in- cluding traveling hither, board, and transportation to and from Washington, by those who may be recommended, and all other expenses, must be defrayed by the. students them- selves. YIII. The following extract from a private letter from a member of the Board of Examiners, Washington, to the Chairman of the Supervisory Committee, is deemed worthy of being re-produced here, as being a terse view of the entire subject of officering Colored Troops — practical and eloquent. " A Eegiment of Colored Troops, when turned over to the command of its white officers, consists of a thousand or more of unlettered black men, often late slaves, dressed in the soldier's u.niform and armed like soldiers. They will be expected to do the soldier's duty, but as yet they are profoundly ignorant of that duty. To organize this mass, to provide for it, to instruct it, to drill it, to march it, to lead it into battle and make it fight, will require an aggre- gate of the various kinds of knowledge only possessed by superior white men. " These officers should be selected with the greatest care — officers who shall know how to instruct these unlettered men — officers who shall inspire their confidence, and hold them up to a high sense of duty, and make them feel that now, for the first time in the history of their race, they are called upon to vindicate, on the battle-field, their title to the honored name of soldier. Under such direction, black men will make excellent soldiers ; whereas if badly officered, they will be badly taught, badly cared for, badly led, and the whole experiment of putting colored troops in the field will prove a failure. "'Where can such be found?' I answer among the gallant, intelligent, and enterprizing young men of the country now in civil life ; and especially among the non- commissioned officers and privates of the army, many of ^<^G 17 wHom have earned promotion bj gallant deeds, and who wonld be proud to command colored troops. Find them out ; cultivate them ; instruct them in your Military School,, and send them on for examination, and be assured the Board will not fail to recommend them for the positions they are best qualified to fill." EXTEACT FEOM GENERAL OEDERS. The following is taken from the Order of the War De- partment establishing the Board of Examination : "4. Each applicant shall be subjected to a fair, but rigorous examination, as to physical, mental and moral fitness to command troops. 5. The Board shall specify for what grade of commis- sions the several applicants are fit ; and shall also classify and number them according to merit or proficiency. 6. Appointments to each grade shall only be made from the candidates approved by the Board, and in the order of merit recommended by it. 7. The Keport of the Board, if adverse, shall be conclu- sive ; and no person rejected by it, shall be re-examined." Persons desirous of entering the School, are invited to apply in writing, and submit written testimonials of good character, to either of the undersigned, at No. 1210 Chest- nut Street, agreeably to Direction ]^o. 1, page 14. THOMAS WEBSTER, Chairman. CADWALADER BIDDLB, Secretary. SAUKDERS LEWIS, Chairman of Executive Committee. HENRY SAMUEL, Secretary of Exi--cutive Committee. . ABRAHAM BARKER, Chairman of Finance Committee, ROBERT R. CORSON, General Agent. JOHN H. TAGG-ART, Chip.f Preeer tor. UTILES FREE MILITARY SCHOOL Por Applicants for Command of Colored Troops, No. 1210 Chestnut Street, PliiladelpMa, Jolm H. Taggart, Cliief Preceptor, (Late Colonel 12tli P. E. V. C.,) Established by the Philadelphia Su- pervisory Committee for Eecruiting Colored Eegiments. DAILY SESSIONS AND DEILLS. I. On and after March 1st, 1864, there will be thkee sessions of the School held daily, (except Sundays, and on Saturday evenings,) viz. : The First Session will commence precisely at 9, and end at 10.30 A. M., at which hour the several companies of the Free Military School Battalion will assemble in their respective armories, when the roll of each Company will be called, and absentees noted. At 10.45, the Battalion, under command of a Student, will march to the Parade Ground, on Locust street, west of the Academy of Music, where the Battalion will drill until 12 M., after which the dress parade will take place, the General Orders read, and the Battalion dismissed. The Second Session will commence at 2 P. M. precisely, and continue until 3.30 P.M., when the companies will meet at their armories for roll call, after which the Battalion will march to the Parade Ground, and be drilled until 5 P. M., after which dress parade will take place, orders read, and Battalion dismissed. Commanding officers of Companies will present their morning reports to the Post Adjutant every evening, pre- vious to 6 o'clock, with a list of all members of the com- ^^7 19 pany present and absent during tlie day, at either session. These reports mnst be attested by the signatures of the Captain and First Sergeant, as required by Army Eegu- lations. The Evening Session will be confined chiefly to the study of Mathematics, and will be in charge of the Pro- fessors and their assistants instructing that Departmento This session will commence at such hours as may be an- nounced, from time to time, in General Orders. An Evening Class, of Students exhibiting a high degree of proficiency and adv^ancement in the School of the Bat- talion, will meet in the evening for instruction, by the Chief Preceptor, in Evolutions of the Brigade. This Division will be designated as the First Class. ADMISSION OF STUDEiSTTS. II. Applicants having permission to enter the School from the Supervisory Committee, will present themselves to the Chief Preceptor, daily, (except Sunday.) from 9 to half past 10 o'clock, A. M., for examination. ASSIG-NMENT TO COMPANIES. III. Each student, on entering the School, will be as- signed to one of the companies of the Battalion, and will remain in such company during the time he may be con- nected with the School. Students who may be promoted as Field or Line Officers of the Battalion will answer to their names daily in the respective companies to which they may be attached. ABSENTEES. IV. The roll will be called in each Company at the Morning and Afternoon Sessions, and any Student absent from School a full day, without obtaining leave of absence 20 previouslj, througli his commanding officer, will be sus- pended from all the privileges of the School, until he fur- nishes to the Post Adjutant a satisfactory explanation of the cause of such absence. All such explanations must be made by the Student to the Captain or commanding officer of his company, and by him to the Post Adjutant. Attend- ing one session daily will secure the Student his position in the School, but absence for three days in succession, or three days in any one week, will cause the name of such Student to be dropped from the roll of the School. All excuses for absence must be made in writing. Any student frequently absent, and furnishing unsatisfactory explanations as to the cause, will be considered as inatten- tive, and render himself liable to be dropped from the roll, if in the judgment of the Chief Preceptor, it shall be neces- sary to impose this punishment. DISCIPLINE. Y. Students are required, during the sessions, to give their undivided attention to the Chief Preceptor and Assist- ant Preceptors, while teaching, and all loud conversation, lounging attitudes, and other violations of good order and decorum are prohibited. Any student found guilty of vio- lating this rule, will render himself liable to be expelled from the School. The Preceptors and Assistant Preceptors will be held accountable for the regular and orderly conduct of their respective Classes or Divisions, while under their immediate instruction. Defacing books belonging to the School, or scribbling, or writing names in them, or cutting the blocks used for tac- tical demonstrations, will subject the offender to expulsion. Assistant Preceptors will be held accountable for any viola- tion of these rules in their Class Eooms, and will report to the Chief Preceptor the name of any Student offending. Smoking in the class-rooms, or about the building, is pro- hibited. 21 Obedience and subordination being essential to the pur- poses of the Free Military School, any Student who shall disobey a command of the Chief Preceptor, or of any Assistant Preceptor, or other Superior Officer, or behave himself in a refractory or disrespectful manner, shall be dismissed or otherwise less severely pimished, according to the nature and degree of his offence. Any Stu.dent who shall answer for another at any roll call, or who shall engage any other Student to answer for him, shall be dismissed from the School, or otherwise less severely punished. Any Student who shall be guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, shall be dismissed from the School. Every Student shall pay to his superiors the compliments prescribed by the General Eegulations for the Army. (See Army Eegulations, article XXXIX, paragraphs 254:, 256 and 257.) Any Student leaving his company while on the march from the School Building, or remain in the Class Eooms after answering to his name, to evade drilling with the Battalion, will be dismissed, or otherwise less severely punished. Any Student who may be in the School Building when the study hours cease, and the companies assemble for drill, will repair to his Company, answer to his name, and march with his company to the Parade Ground, and drill with it, although he may have been present at one drill the same day previously. Any violation or evasion of this rule will render the offender liable to be dismissed. No Student shall be excused from drill by the command- ing officer of his Company, who has no authority to grant such indulgence. Those desiring to be excused must make application personally to the Post Adjutant, stating the reasons therefor, and the Adjutant will report the same to the Chief Preceptor for his action. 22 STUDENTS ACTING AS ASSISTANT PEEOEPTOES. YI. Students will be detailed, whenever necessary, as Assistant Preceptors in the several classes, and when on dut J will be obeyed and respected the same as the regularly employed Preceptors. S-TUDENTS TO ACCEPT WHATEYEE POSITION EECOMMENDED FOE. YII. It is required that all students admitted to this School shall pledge themselves to apply to the Board of Ex- aminers, in session in Washington City, for permission to appear before that Board for examination as to their qual- ifications for commands in Colored Eegiments, and to accept commands in the same if conferred on them, and this pledge is made on signing these rules. When Students are passed by the Preceptor, as compe- tent to appear before the Board at Washington, they will proceed thither without delay, as soon as permission to ap- pear before said Board has been obtained. BOOKS FOE INSTEUCTION, MAPS, &c. YIII. Books for instruction in Military Tactics and Army Eegulations, Mathematics, Arithmetic and History, and Maps and Atlases for instruction in Geography, will be furnished b}" the Supervisory Committee for the use of the students, who, as soon as their course of instruction is ended, will return the same to the Librarian in good order. Those who may fail to return or lose such books, will be charged with them at cost price. The Librarian will be in attendance daily, (except Sun- days,) from 9 A. M. imtil 6 P. M., to issue and receive books. POSTMASTEE FOE THE SCHOOL. IX. A student will be detailed from time to time, as 23 Postmaster, who will have charge of all letters and papers addressed to the students at the School, and will distribute the same twice daily before the Battalion is dismissed on parade. YISITOES EXCLUDED DUEmG- STUDIES. X. No visitors, or persons not connected with the School, will be admitted to the Class Kooms during the hours devoted to recitation, except a member of the Supervisory Committee, or strangers introduced by a mem- ber of said Committee. JSTo Student shall introduce a stranger into the Class Eooms during study hours under any pretence whatever, and no strangers will be permitted to visit students at the school during study hours. ^ INATTEKTIYE STUDENTS TO BE DEOPPED FEOM THE EOLL. XI. Should a student, after ten days' tuition, show no evidence of improvement, the right is reserved to the Chief Preceptor, by and with the advice of the Executive Com- mittee, to privately inform such student that he exhibits no capacity to become an officer, and that his further presence is not desirable. LEAYES OF ABSENCE. XII. Leaves of absence, not exceeding twenty days in length, will be granted by the Chief Preceptor, where the necessity is urgent. Application for such leave will be made in writing by the Student to the Captain or com- manding officer of his company, who will endorse upon it his approval or disapproval, and forward it to the Post Adjutant, for the approval or disapproval of the Chief Pre- 24 ceptor. Every Student; on returning from leave of absence will immediately report himself to tlie Post Adjutant, to be assigned to the particular class to wbicli lie may belong. Students overstaying their leaves of absence, without giving proper explanation within one day after the expiration of such leave, will be dropped from the rolls for non- attendance. SUEG-EOK. XIII. A Student, skilled in medicine and surgery, will be detailed as Surgeon to the School, who will examine Students who may apply for leave of absence or to be excused from drill on account of sickness. He will be in attendance daily from 10.30 to 11 A. M. at his office, room No. 2. Applications for leave of absence on account of sickness, will be made in writing, in conformity with paragraph 185, Army Eegulations. OFFICIAL COEEESPOjSTDENCE, &c. XIV. All official communications from Students intended for the Chief Preceptor of the Free Military School, will be addressed to the Post Adjutant. The full name of the Student, signed to such communications, will be written in one line, and his rank, company and regiment, (if a soldier) in the next line below. If a civilian, his address, or the State from whence he comes, will be written on the line below his signature. All communications, from Students, addressed to the Post Adjutant or Chief Preceptor, shall be written on paper susceptible of being filed to a uniform size, and shall be, when delivered to their address, of the size of a sheet of letter paper, folded in three equal parts ; no such commu- nication being made on a piece of paper of a less size 25 than tlie one of such parts, or the one-sixth of a sheet of letter paper. All communications from Students to the Supervisory Committee, intended for the War Department, or the Bureau for Colored Troops at Washington, D. C, must be made through the Chief Preceptor, whose duty it shall be to forward them, accompanied with sucl| remarks as he may think proper. EESiaNATIOISrS AND WITHDEAWALS. XYI. Any Student who may wish to resign or with- draw from the School, must do so in writing, through the Post Adjutant, stating the reasons therefor, and if deemed satisfactory by the Chief Preceptor, such Student will be granted an honorable discharge. No resignation will be received from a Student under charges, or who is liable to be dropped from the rolls for non-attendance. PAPEKS AND DOCUMENTS. XVII. Students leaving for Washington for examination, or withdrawing honorably from the School, will have re- turned to them such documents or papers they may have presented to the Supervisory Committee to obtain permission to enter the School, except the original application of the student himself, which will be retained. Papers or docu- ments belonging to those who may be dropped from the roll for non-attendance, will not be returned. STUDENTS TO SUBSCEIBE TO THESE EULES. XYIII. Adherence to the foregoing rules, and such others as may be hereafter made, will be subscribed to by each student, on entering the School, in a book to be kept for that purpose. 26 CLASSIFICATIOK OF THE SCHOOL. XIX. Tlie ScTiool will be diyicled into four classeS; namely : First Class. Those studying 3d volume of Casey's Tactics or Evolutions of the Brigade. Second Class. Those studying the School of the Battalion. Third Glass. Th(^e studying the School of the Company. Fourth Class. Those studying the School of the Soldier. Each student, before entering the School, will be ex- amined by the Chief Preceptor, and assigned to one of the four classes named. Promotions from the lower to the higher classes will be made upon the recommendation of Assistant Preceptors, and after an examination, if found qualified, the student will be promoted to a higher class, and his name published in Greneral Orders for the inform- ation of the School. GEl^EKAL OEDEES. XX. General Orders will be published daily to the com- mand, announcing the promotions, recommendations for promotions, daily details and duties, the names of students recommended for examination before the Board at Wash- ington, the names of those who may pass the Board, with the rank for which they may be recommended, with such other information as the Chief Preceptor may deem proper to communicate to the School. JOHlSr H. TAGGAET, Chief Precejotor. 27 Fkee Militaky School foe Applicants FOE Command of Coloeed Teoops. No. 1210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, March ^Ist, 1864. Thomas Webstee, Esq., Chairman Supervisory Committee. SiE: — In compliance with your request, I have the honor to forward you the accompanying tabular state- ments, showing the progress and present condition of the institution under my charge. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, JOHN H. TAGGAET, Chief Prece2?ior Free Military School. No. 1. Analysis of Examination of Applicants for Command of Colored Troops, before the Board at Washington, of which 3Iaj or- General Silas Casey is President, from the organization of the Board to March 29th, 1864, inclusive. RANK. Colonels Lieutenant-Colonels Majors Captains 1st Lieutenants 2nd Lieutenants Sergeants Corporals Privates Civilians Students of the Philadel- phia Free Military School KumhcT accepted and for what rank recommended. 4 3 9 68 52 24' 505 230 449 429 1,173 94 19 2 4 2 20 10 9 62 23 26 48 200 28 l,86t 11 23 36 228 268 453 848 248 3 n 3 133 64 124 94 428 25 25 1 22 20 10 234 97 242 216 844 28 No. 2. Analysis of the Examination to Zlst March, 1864, of the Students of The Philadelphia Free Military School, before the Board of Ex- aminers at Washington for Applicants for Command of Colored Troops, Major- General Silas Casey, President. .3 a 1 Number accepted and for wliat rank recoommended. -a EAITK. s 6 o "5 o "5 3 a) 1 g l5 Sergeants, Corporals, Privates, '^Civilians, 14 8 33 39 1 1 1 3 1 5 3 2 9 14 3 4 11 6 6 2 10 8 1 1 2 94 2 4 6 28 24 26 4 * Many of these had previously been in the three months', nine months', and three years' service, from which they had been honorably discharged. -^yt^ 29 . .2 c c ■ o o p b d ^;5 '-^^''w S5"^"^''s'~^''* S'cC'^ ®'"S''w''<^^"=^'"s '^'^ t-^oT®^ „ oPrO^ ocac Oi-5fa 1-3 O I-: t-5 Q h, &, i-s ^ C^ a„ ^^ fl, ' 5.2 £ 3 J3 «0 <1- O .g ^ q ^ 2 ds? 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