General Orders No. 7

EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS

Chattanooga, Tenn., July 17, 1862

1. An encampment for the rendezvous of State Troops is established, to be selected by the Quarter Master in the vicinity of Chattanooga.

Volunteers for Twelve Months will be received in companies with the strict understanding that the Governor may, at any time muster, direct the organizations of squads into Companies – Companies into Battalions or Regiments. The conditions and terms of service are those prescribed in the Acts of the General Assembly, passed at their session of 1861-62 and 1862, authorizing the acceptance of a Volunteer force for the defenses of the state.

2. Col. Leon Trousdale, of the Governor’s Military Staff, will take command of said Encampment, and is directed to discharge the duties of Commandant thereof. He will report from time to time to the Adjutant General of the State; inspect and muster into the services of the State, all troops not mustered by other officers, report and return muster rolls and recruiting lists to said officer. He will enforce strict discipline, according to the regulations adopted by the state to the government of its armies.

3. Major G. S. Rolling, Quarter Master, will make such arrangements necessary for the supply of said State force. He will take charge of all the ordinance stores of the State, and see to the preservation and repair of State arms, issue them on the order of the Adjutant General to whom he will report as to number and condition, now on hand, and which he may fro time to time receive.

4. Major Daniel F. Cocke, Commissary, will make such arrangements and provisions as may become necessary for the subsistence of State force.

5. Said encampment may, upon order of the Adjutant of the State or the commandant thereof, be removed to such point as the public service may require.

6. The Adjutant General of the State will assign and designate temporarily for duty such officers as may become necessary for such funds as may be required in the organization, supply and subsistence of such forces. He will draw upon the Bank of Tennessee, and make such orders as may be necessary to the organization and employment of said troops, ordering them into active service, etc.

ISHAM G. HARRIS.

By the Governor:

W. C. WHITTHORNE, Att’y Gen.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 1