and JS, General Orders, to Nauvoo Legion, , Hancock Co., IL, 24 June 1842. Version published in “General Orders,” Wasp, 25 June 1842, [3].
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GENERAL ORDERS.
HEAD QUARTERS. )
City of , June 24, 1842.)
1st. The several companies of the Legion will form on the usual parade ground on the 4th day of July next, at half past 8 o’clock A. M.
2nd. At nine o’clock the Adjutants will form the lines of their respective regiments and the Colonels take command.
3rd. At half past nine o’clock the Adjutants of cohorts will form the line of their respective Cohorts and the Brigadier Generals take command.
4th. At ten o’clock the Adjutant General will form the line of the Legion, and the ranking Brevet Major General take command.
5th. At half past ten o’clock the Lieut. General will be escorted to the field by the music, the 1st company of the 1st Cohort, and the Invincibles of the 2nd Cohort, and on his arrival at the reviewing station be saluted with a discharge of artillary &c. &c.
6th. At 11 o’clock the General review will commence.
7th. At half past 1 o’clock P. M. the [i]nspection of arms will take place, and be followed by the performance of such manoeuvers as may be ordered.
8th. The arms (especially those of the State) will be required to be in the very best order as any neglect on that point can not be overlooked.
9th. The officers, musicions, and privates are expected every man to do hi[s] duty.