IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON: Order Making Gen. Halleck General-in-Chief of all the Land Forces; DRAFTING NOT CONSIDERED NECESSARY (7/24/1862)

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EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 11, 1862.

Ordered that Major-Gen. HENRY W. HALLECK be assigned to the command of the whole land forces of the United States, as General-in-Chief; and that he repair to this Capital so soon as he can with safety, to the positions and operations within the Department now under his special charge.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, July 23.

The following is a joint resolution of Congress, approved July 12, 1862:

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized to furnish extra clothing to all sick and wounded and other soldiers who may have lost the same by the casualties of war, under such rules and regulations as the Department may prescribe during the existence of the present rebellion.

In pursuance of the foregoing resolution, it is ordered that the Quartermaster's Department shall issue upon the requisition of the Medical officer in charge of any hospital or depot of sick and wounded soldiers, such regulation clothing necessary to their health and comfort as may be requisite to replace that lost by them by the casualties of war; the necessity of the issue to be certified by the Surgeon, and the requisition to be approved by the Medical Director or Medical Inspector of the station; such issue to be gratuitous, and not charged to the soldier.

The Quartermaster-General will cause blank requisitions to be furnished to the officers of the various hospitals upon their application.

E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War,

OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, July 23.

Gen. HALLECK occupied the morning in conference with the President and Secretary of War, Maj.-Gens. POPE and BURNSIDE, were present a portion of the time. Several other Generals and high military functionaries were

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Important from Washington: Order Making Gen. Halleck General-in-Chief of all the Land Forces – 2
The Army of Virginia: Important Orders Issued by Gen. Pope – 2-3
The Army of the Potomac: What is Thought of the Proposed Changes – 3
The Raids of the Guerrillas: Desperate Fight in Missouri – 3
From the South: Gen. Lee Exalted Above All Other Men – 3-4
The Tribune on the President’s Executive Order – 4
Editorial: More Activity in Recruiting – 4-5
Driving the Rebels Southward – 5
Our Prisoners to be Released at Last – 5
Malicious, to Say the Least – 5
The Work of Gen. Halleck – 5