Headquarters Camp of Instruction
Benton Barracks Mo September 18th 1861
General Orders
No. 4
Troops are stationed at this post especially to recruit organize and drill, commanders thereof after the first day (which should be devoted to clearing quarters and accoutrements, and airing tents and clothing) officers and men will be expected to conform to the rules of this contonment. Idleness is everywhere pernicious especially in armies, as it leads to vice or stupidity and degrades the profession. We are paid to labor and should be willing to work: and when we willfully fail to do so, we should lose wages and expect punishment.
To secure daily duty and note delinquencies, frequent roll calls are required, when absentees are to be ascertained and properly reported. The calls for daily duty are to be strictly enforced by the officers. [Reveille and roll call were ordered at 6 A.M., breakfast at 7:15, following a morning drill, drill again following breakfast, dinner call at 12 M., drill again in the afternoon, with retreat at 5:45. Taps and roll call, 9: P.M., lights out 9:15]
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General Regulations
Head Quarters
Camp of Instruction Benton Barracks Sept 19, 1861
General Orders
No 5
Order in Camp
It is the special province of the Guard to see that all these and other rules of the service are complied with . . . Foraging, pilfering, rioting, mutiny, drunkeness, profane swearing, and vulgarity, are to be rebuked and restrained ; and all soldiers should unite in preserving the decency and general decorum of all troops who should carry to their homes an unsullied name.