Head Quarters 2nd Regiment Iowa Volunteers
Keokuk, June 2nd 1861
General Order
No. 3.
The roll calls for duty will be as follows :
Revelie at 5 o’clock a.m.
Breakfast at 6’/2 oclock
Surgeons call (For mustering and providing for the sick) at 7 o’clock
Guard Mounting at 8 o’clock.
Dinner at 12 o’clock M.
Evening Parade at 7 o’clock P.M.
Taps (silence and repose throughout the camp) 10 O’c.
Drill–
For convenience of supervision while the companies are in quarters, the Regimental and Company drills will habitually be conducted in the portion of the city limits north of Main street except on Sundays and Saturday afternoons. Company and squad drill to be from 5 ½ o’clock to 6 ½ A.M. and from 8 ½ to 11. A.M. Company drills will again commence at 3 ½ P. M. and be merged into regimental drill at 4 P.M. to be dismissed at the discretion of the Officer Commanding. The Field and Company Officers will personally supervise and direct the drills and all the members of the regiment are expected to dilligently study and practice the profession they have adopted.
The manual of arms will habitually be that of the musket or heavy infantry as shown in the infantry Tactics of May 1st 1861 page 74 to 88. When for change a commander may desire to teach the light infantry or rifle manual he shall give the caution “As Riflemen.”
By order of Saml R Curtis, Co Comdg.
N. P. Chipman Adjutant