L. H. Pelouze, October 17, 1861

No. 16. Annapolis, Md., October 17, 1861. It is confidently expected that General Orders, No. 15, current series, from theseheadquarters will be enforced with vigor and promptitude. The officers concerned will infuseinto their mena spirit of energy adequate to the occasion; they will see that their respective commands move with life and alacrity ; that all work is so systematized that every man and body of men may work to advantage. Each officer and man will apply his every effort to the task set before him, and will exhibit at all times and upon all occasions that spirit of ‘energy and industry so essential in every well-disciplined command and without which successful war cannot be prosecuted. Whilst the general commanding expects in this way the support of his command, he regrets to say that he has recently noticed a few instances of a lax, loose, and lazy bearing on the part of a few men when on duty. This spirit, if generally diffused, would ignore all usefulness and destroy all prospects of successful operations. Commanders should at once bring to their official notice all cases of this nature, and if shame will not bring the offender to a sense of duty, punishment must be resorted to. I. I. All horses and wagons that the chief quartermaster decides cannot be taken on the transports will be transferred to the quartermaster of the post, with the requisite invoices. By order Brig. Gen. T. W. Sherman:

L. H. PELOUZE,