HEAD QUARTERS, DEPARTMENT No. 2. 
General orders, ) 
No. 96. J 
Tupelo, Miss., July 10th, 1862 
I. The following Article of War, (94), is published for information and observe 
ancc in this Department; 
When any commissioned officer shall die or be killed in the service of the Con- 
federate States, the Major of the Regiment, or the officer doing the Major’s 
duty in his absence, or in any post or garrison, the second officer in command, 
or the assistant military agent, shall immediately secure all his effects or 
equipage, then in camp or quarters, and shall make an inventory thereof, and 
forthwith transmit the same to the office of the Deparment of War, to the end 
that his executors or administrators may receive the same,’’ 
If a legal administrator or family connexion be present, and take charge of the ef- 
fects. it will be so stated in the inventory : a duplicate of which inventory will also 
bo sent to these Head Quarters. 
11. Inventories of the effects, or money of deceased non-commissioned officers and 
soldiers, required by the 95th Article of War, will be forwarded to the Adjutant Gen- 
eral by the Commander of the company to which the deceased belonged, and a du- 
plicate of the same to the Colonel of the regiment. Final statements of pay, 
clothing, etc., will be sent with the inventories. When a soldier dies at a post, sta- 
tion or hospital, absent from his company, it will be the duty of his immediate 
Commander, or Surgeon to furnish the required inventory, and at the same time 
forward to the Commanding officer of the company, to which the soldier belonged, 
a report of his death, specifying the date, place and cause ; to what time he was 
agt paid, and the money or other effects possessed at the time of his decease; which 
report'wifi be noted on the next muster-roll of the company to which the man bc- 
onged. Each inventory will be endorsed, “ Inventory of the effects of , late 
°f Company (—), Regiment of .who died at , the day of 
~ ■ 186 —.” ff a legal representative receive the effects, it will be so stated in 
the report. If the soldier leave no effects the fact will be reported, 
• Should the effects of a non-commissioned officer or soldier not be administer- 
® upon within a short period after his decease, they shall bo disposed of by a 
pOUncil °f Administration, under the authority of the Commanding officer of the 
os , and the proceeds deposited with the Paymaster, to the credit of the Confederate 
Tfi1 °S' U. fhey shall be claimed by the legal representatives of the deceased. 
e receipts of the Paymaster will be taken in triplicate, one of which will be for- 
warded to the Chief Paymaster of the Department, and another to the Adjutant 
c inspector General of the Army, which last will be accompanied by a certified 
‘ omcnt, (by the Council and Commanding officer), or account of the proceedsre- 
i Pet' f°r. In cases where money is found in possession of the deceased, and there 
e&dno eSal representative present or convenient to receive it, it will at once be turn- 
. oyer to some Paymaster, whose receipts will be taken and transmitted as here- 
ru before prescribed. 
command of General I3rag«. 
THOMAS JORDAN, 
Chief of Staff. 
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