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General Orders
No. 141
War Department, Adjunct General's Office, Washington, October 7, 1865 
I..Commanding Generals of Military Departments and Districts will be allowed the following staff officers, and no others: 
General Commanding Military Departments.
One Assistant Adjutant General.
One Assistant Inspector General. One Chief Quartermaster. One Chief Commissary of Subsistence. One Medical Director. One Judge Advocate. Two Aides-de-Camp, to be selected from officers of their commands. 
Generals Commanding Districts 
Two Aides-de-Camp, to be selected from officers of their commands. 
II..General officers without military command are not allowed Aides-de-Camp or other staff officers. 
III..All officers serving on the staff of General Officers not included in the above allowance will be immediately relieved from such duty. The officers of the regular and volunteer regiments so relieved will be ordered to join their regiments without delay, and the staff officers of volunteers will be ordered to their homes to report thence by letter to the Adjutant General for instructions. 
By order of the Secretary of War: E.D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.