A number of Adjutants and Quartermasters have recently been
mustered out of service. Among the most
recent are Quartermaster M. L. Morris and Adjutant J. C. Stone, of the 1st
Cavalry. The Iowa City Republican says they were mustered out
because of an informality in their appointment, the regulations requiring that
they should be appointed from the list of lieutenants of the regiment, which was
not done in their case. If this rule is
strictly adhered to, it will throw out a good many Adjutants and Quartermasters
for nearly every regiment which went from Camp McClellan had such officers thus
irregularly appointed. The regimental
adjutants and battalion quartermasters of the cavalry have all been mustered
out of service, as been too much of a fifth wheel, and consequently, an
unnecessary expense.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, May 16, 1862, p. 1
