Major-General John A. Logan: General Orders No. 10, February 14, 1865

GENERAL ORDERS No. 10.}

HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,        

Baker's Plantation, S.C., February 14, 1865.

I. The following is announced as the badge of this corps: A miniature cartridge-box, black, one-eighth of an inch thick, fifteen-sixteenths of an inch wide, and thirteen-sixteenths of an inch deep, set transversely on a field of cloth or metal one and five-eighths of an inch square; above the cartridge-box plate will be stamped or marked in a curve the motto, “Forty Rounds.” The field on which the cartridge-box is set will be red for the First Division, white for the Second Division, blue for the Third Division, and yellow for the Fourth Division. For the headquarters of the corps the field will be parti-colored, of red, white, blue, and yellow.

II. The badge will invariably be worn upon the hat or cap.

III. It is expected that this badge will be worn constantly by every officer and soldier in the corps. If any corps in the army has a right to take pride in its badge, surely that has which looks back through the long and glorious line of Wilson's Creek, Henry, Donelson,, Shiloh, Russell House, Corinth, Iuka, Town Creek, Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Champion's Hill, Big Black, Snyder's Bluff, Vicksburg, Jackson, Cherokee Station, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, Knoxville, Resaca, Kingston, Dallas, New Hope Church, Big Shanty, Kenesaw Mountain, Nickajack, Decatur, the 22d and 28th of July before Atlanta, Jonesborough, Lovejoy's, Allatoona Pass, Grahamville, Fort McAllister, and scores of minor struggles; the corps which had its birth under Grant and Sherman in the darker days of our struggle; the corps which will keep on striking until the death of the rebellion.

IV. For the present, good temporary badges can be made easily by any soldier in the corps. When communication is re-established with the North commanders can procure very handsome ones for their men at a nominal cost.

V. Division and brigade commanders are requested to examine plans for division and brigade flags at these headquarters.

By order of Maj. Gen. John A. Logan:

MAX. WOODHULL,       

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 47, Part 2 (Serial No. 99), p. 419; Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 343-4