Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, December 8, 1862 
GENERAL ORDERS, ? 
No. 100. ] 
I. The following Act, and Regulations in reference thereto, are pub- 
lished for the information of all concerned: 
An Act to repeal the law authorizing Commutation for Soldiers' Clothing, 
and to require Clothing to he furnished by the Secretary of War in kind. 
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That so much of tha 
existing law as provides commutation for clothing to the soldiers in the service of 
the Confederacy, be, and the same is hereby repealed ; and, hereafter, the Secretary 
of War shall provide in kind to the soldiers respectively, the uniform clothing pre- 
scribed by the Regulations of the Army of the Confederate States. And should any' 
balance of clothing be due to the soldier at the end of the year, the money value of 
such balance shall be paid to such soldier, according to the value of such clothing, 
fixed and announced by order of the War Department. [Approved Oct’r Bth, 1862.1 
11. In accordance with the above Act of Congress, no payment of 
commutation for clothing will be made for a period extending beyond 
October Bth, 1862. When payment of said allowance has been made 
prior to the promulgation of this Order, for a term which will not expire 
until after the date of this Act, issues of clothing in kind will he made, 
to commence at the end of such period. Where it has not been so paid, 
clothing will be furnished from the Bth October 1862. 
111. A soldier is allowed the uniform clothing stated in the following 
table, or articles thereof of equal value. When a balance is due him at 
the end of the year, he will be. allowed the money value thereof, as herein 
set forth; to he paid bin* upon the muster and pay roll of his company. 
When he shall have drawn clothing in excess of the amount allowed, it 
will be charged against him upon the muster and pay roll of his com- 
pany. If discharged before the expiration of the year, and he shall not 
have been furnished with clothing in kind, or paid commutation thereof, 
for the period of service rendered since the Bth October 1862, he will be 
entitled to money value of the clothing allowed, in proportion 
to such period of service. 2 
CLOTHING. 
FOR THREE YEARS. 
Price of each 
article. 
1st. 
2d. 
3d. 
Cap, complete, ..... 
2 
1 
1 
$ 2 00 
Cover, ...... 
1 
1 
1 
38 
Jacket, ...... 
2 
1 
1 
12 00 
Trowsers, • - -T - . 
3 
2 
2 
9 00 
Shirt, 
3 
3 
3 
3 00 
Drawers, ...... 
3 
o 
2 
3 00 
Shoes, pairs, - . - 
4 
4 
4 
6 00 
Socks, pairs, ...... 
4 
4 
4 
1 00 
Leather stock, ..... 
1 
- 
- 
25 
Groat coat, ...... 
1 
- 
- 
25 00 
Stable frock (for mounted men)j 
1 
- 
- 
2 00 
Fatigue overall (for engineers and ordnance), 
1 
1 
1 
3 00 
Blanket, ...... 
I 
1 
7 50 
IY. When clothing is needed for issue to the men, the Company Com 
mander will procure it from the Quartermaster, on requisition, approved 
by the commanding officer. 
V. Ordinarily, the Company Commander will procure and issue cloth- 
ing to his men twice a year. At other times, in special cases, such arti- 
cles as the soldier may need will be him. 
VI. Officers receiving clothing will render quarterly returns to the 
Quartermaster General. 
VII. Commanders of Companies will take the receipts of their men 
for the clothing issued to them, on a receipt roll, witnessed by an officer, 
or, in the absence of an officer, by a non-commissioned officer; the wit- 
ness to he witness to the fact of the issue and the acknowledgment and 
signature of the soldier. The several issues to a soldier to be entered 
separately on the roll, and all vacant spaces on the roll to be filled with 
a cipher. The roll is the voucher for the issue to the quarterly return of 
the Company Commander. Extra issues will be so noted on the roll. 
VIII. Each soldier’s clothing account is kept by the Company Com- 
mander in a company book. This account sets out only the money value 
of the clothing which he received at each issue, for which his receipt is 
entered in the book, and witnessed as in the preceding paragraph. 
IX. When a soldier is transferred or detached, the amount due to ox 
by him for clothing, will be stated on his descriptive list.* 
X. When a soldier is discharged, the amount duo to or by him fox 3 
clothing, will he stated on the duplicate certificates given, for the settle- 
ment of his accounts. 
XL Deserters’ clothing will be turned into store. The invoice of it, 
and the Quartermaster’s receipt for it, will state its condition, and the 
name of the deserter. 
XII. The inspection report on damaged clothing shall set out, with 
the amount of damage of each article, a list of such articles as are fit for 
issue, at a reduced price stated. 
XIII. Commanding Officers may order necessary issues of clothing 
to prisoners and convicts, taking deserters’ or other damaged clothing-, 
when there is such in store. 
XIV. In all cases of deficiency, or damage of any article of clothing 
or camp or garrison equipage, the officer accountable for the property is 
required by law to show by one or more depositions setting forth the cir- 
cumstances of the case, that the deficiency Avas by unavoidable accident 
or loss in actual service, without any fault on his part, and in case of 
damage, that due care and attention were exerted on his part, and that 
the damage did not result from neglect. 
order. 
S. COOPER. 
Adjutant and Inspector General.