GENERAL ORDERS 
FROM THE 
ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE, 
CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, 
For tlie Year 1863,' 
WITH A FULL INDEX. 
COMPILED AND CORRECTED UNDER AUTHORITY OF 
Gen’l S. COOPER, A. & I. G. 
By 11. H. P. ROBINSON, 
OF THE ABJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE. 
The Orders as they appear in ■ fck-k-boek-4iave explanatory notes 
calling attention to each Pa3TgrS')S& modified, 
amended or revoked; and to -wt4 which the 
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GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 1. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gjenl’s Oracj, 
Richmond, January 3, 1863. 
I. The following Orders are published for the information of 
the army : 
All white male citizens of the Confederate States, between the 
ages of 18 and 40, who are not exempt by the act of October 11 th, 
1862, are liable to conscription ; and all such as have been already 
enrolled and mustered, will he held as though in service of the 
Confederate States, until otherwise ordered. Exemption will not 
take place until after enrollment, when enrolling officers will 
grant certificates of exemption, in all cases clearly within the 
.meaning of the act. All doubtful cases for exemption will be 
referred, for decision, to Commandants of Camps of Instruction, 
and if necessary, by them to the Chief of the Bureau of Con- 
scription in Richmond. Such cases will not be required to report 
in person to the camp of instruction until final notion is had on 
the same. 
II. Enrolling officers are required to be vigilant in the discharge 
of their duties within the district confided to them, not only in 
respect to the enrolment of conscripts, but also in the apprehen- 
sion and arrest of stragglers and deserters from the army. Com- 
plaints having been made of harsh treatment to conscripts by 
enrdling officers in certain localities, which treatment is calcu- 
lated to prejudice the cause of the Confederate States, fyy encour- 
aging opposition to the acts of conscription, it will be the duty of 
Commandants of Camps of Instruction to report to the Secretary 
of War, for discharge from conscript service, any officer who shall 
offend in this particular. It is required of all enrolling officers 
to encourage and promote a good understanding with the people 
of the district in which they may be serving: and it is impressed 
on them, that firmness of purpose, tempered with kindness and 
forbearance, will best promote the objects to be attained. 
III. Enrolling officers will furnish to Commandants of Camps 
of Instruction, at the end of each month, a complete roll of the 
conscripts mads bv them during the month. Such rolls will also embrace the names of persons- who have been enrolled, and ex- 
empted within that period. One copy of these rolls will be im- 
mediately forwarded by the Commandants of the Camps of In- 
struction to the Chief of the Bureau of Conscription in Rich- 
mond, for file and future reference. 
IY. All commissioned officers between the ages of 18 and 40, 
who have become disconnected with the army, by the operation 
of General Orders, Nos. 48 and 06, of 1862, or by reason of non- 
re-election, resignation or dismissal, unless actually disabled (of 
which they mast furnish evidence), are subject to conscription ; 
and while substitutes between the above ages, and who are not 
embraced in the provisions of the exemption law, will be held in 
service to the end of the terms for which they have engaged, the 
principals within the same ages, for whom the substitute may 
have engaged to serve, will be liable to conscription. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 2. 
Adj’t and Insp'r Gen Vs Office;, 
Richmond, January 3, 1863^ 
I. The following Orders are published for the information and 
guidance of all concerned : 
Recognizing the necessity of officers of rail roads having full 
control of their business, in order to insure safety and dispatch 
in transportation, military officers are prohibited from interfering 
with the engines, ears, running of trains, or with the eontrol and 
management, in any way, of rail roads. 
II. When transportation of troops or freight by rail road is 
necessary, a quartermaster or other authorized officer shall make- 
requisition for the same upon the superintendent or proper officer 
of the rail road, furnishing the necessary evidence of transporta- 
tion, and delivering the ti’oops or freight to be transported. 
III. In the event that more freight is to be transporter! over 
anyroad than the road has the ability to carry prr mptly, the 
officer furnishing evidence of transportation will indicate to the 
rail road officer what shall take precedence-. In the absence of 
any special order as to what freight shall go first, the rail road 
officer shall be governed by any General Order the Quartermaster 
General may issue in regard thereto. tV. Where troops or freight is to be moved out of the usual 
routine of a rail road, the officer having charge of such move- 
ment will fix with the superintendent, or other officer of the road 
on which the movement is to be made, the day and hour of de- 
parture, and when so fixed, the troops or freight must be ready at 
the appointed time. 
V. In the event of any military necessity for an unusual move- 
ment at any particular point, the commanding officer at such post 
will communicate fully the character and extent of service to the 
principal officer of the road or roads from which it is required, 
and ask the personal supervision of the proper rail road officers 
to the duty. 
VI. Quartermasters and commissaries will exercise discretion 
in shipping freight not wanted for immediate use, and that may 
be stored at safe and convenient points, taking care not to block 
up roads and thereby impede transportation. 
VII. When it is necessary to send a special messenger with 
freight, such messenger must travel with the freight placed in 
his charge, and his transportation shall be so specified on its face, 
in order to prevent him from traveling in any other way. 
VIII. Enrolling officers will permit conscripts, enrolled while 
in the employment of rail roads, to remain at their duties until 
Col. William M. Wadley,* A. A. G., decide as to who of them it 
is necessary should be detailed for service on the road. 
IX. Any violation of these orders, or remissness on the part 
of rail road officers to perform promptly all government trans- 
portation, will be reported tq Col. William M. Wadley,* A. A. G.» 
who will indicate from time to time where his head quarters will 
be. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS,! 
No. 3. 
Adj’t and Insp’e Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, January S, 1863. 
!• The attention of officers is called to the 34th article of Army 
■Regulations, and especially to those paragraphs of the article 
* Lieut. Col. F. V. Sims is now chief of Rail Road Bureau, vice 
Col. Wadley. 
f See also, Par. VI. G. 0. 28, which relate to the channel of military correspondence. It is no 
exaggeration to state that nearly one-third of the correspondence, 
received at the War Department and at this office, from officers 
of the army and others in the military service, comes directly 
from the writers, without passing through the prescribed channel. 
Therefore, all indirect communication with the department is 
prohibited ; and where it is attempted, either in person or by let- 
ter, the application will be referred to the proper military com- 
mander before action is taken on it, and instructions will at the 
same time be given to bring the offender to trial for violation of 
the regulations and orders respecting military correspi ndence. 
These regulations were made after long experience. They have 
been found indispensable, and must be observed. 
II. Not only are all papers and applications to be forwarded 
through the regular channels of communication, but the officers 
through whom they come, and who are generally supposed to be 
informed on the merits of the case presented, are required to ex- 
press their opinions thereon, either in approval or disapproval. 
These opinions are frequently important to the department, and 
the rule which prescribes them must not be overlooked. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 4. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, January 12, 1863. 
I. A Camp of Instruction for Conscripts will be forthwith es- 
tablished at Petersburg, Virginia. A 1 persons liable to con- 
scription within the following counties, will repair to this camp 
for enrolment; and all enrolling officers within said counties will 
hasten forward Conscripts to the same point. The following are 
the counties referred to, to wit: Greenesville, Dinwidde, Bruns- 
wick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Halifax, Charlotte, Pittsylvania, 
llenry, Patrick, Franklin, Nottoway, Prince Edward and Camp- 
bell. 
II. Major General French will appoint an officer of his com- 
mand to receive and muster into service the troops called out by 
the Governor of Virginia, in Special Orders of the Adjutant 
General of the State, of January 9th, 1863, as they arrive at 
Petersburg, and cause them to be furnished with subsistence and 
other supplies needed for their efficiency. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 7 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 5. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, January 13, 1863. 
I. The following Order is published for the information of all 
concerned : 
Exchange Notice, No. 4 
The following officers and men have been duly exchanged, and 
are hereby so declared : 
1. All officers and men captured in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala- 
bama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, up to De- 
cember 10th,1862. 
2. All officers and men captured in Missouri, Kansas, New Mex- 
ico, Arizonia, Arkansas and Louisiana, up to January 13t, 1863. 
3. The two foregoing sections apply not only to officers and men 
of the Confederate service, but also to persons captured in arms or 
hostile array against the United States, whatever may have been 
the character of the military organization to which they were at- 
tached, and whatever may have been the terms of the paroles given 
by them. If any are in Federal prisons, they are to be immediately 
released and delivered to the Confederate authorities. 
4. All persons who have been captured on the sea or sea coast 
of the Confederate or United States, up to December 10th, 1862. 
If any such are in Federal prisons, they are to be immediately re- 
leased and delivered to the Confederate authorities. 
5. All Confederate officers and men who have been delivered at 
City Point, up to January 6th, 1863. 
6. All Confederate officers and men who have been delivered at 
Vicksburg, up to December 23d, L862, and including said date. 
7. All paroled Confederate officers and men receipted for at 
Vicksburg, up to December 23d, 1862, and including said date. 
8. All Confederate officers and men captured and paroled at 
Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862. 
9. All Confederate officers and men captured and paroled at 
Goldsboro’, North Carolina, in December 1862. 
10 Other miscellaneous and minor exchanges, of which the ap- 
propriate officers will be duly informed. 
Robert Ourd. 
Agent of Exchange. 
Richmond, January 10, 1863. 
By order. 
S. COOPER. 
Adjutant and Inspector General, GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 6. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, January 15, 1863. 
I. The attention of officers charged with the custody of publio 
property, is called to paragraphs 923, 924 and 925, Army Regu- 
lations, which provide the mode of accounting for that which is 
los t or destroyed, and disposing of such as become unsuitable for 
the service. No departure will be allowed from the requirements 
therein contained, and all officers having public property in their 
possession will be held to a strict accountability. 
II. The appointment of agents to purchase wool by any officer, 
except the Quartermaster General, and such officers as may act 
under his authority and sanction, is hereby prohibited; and all 
agencies for that purpose, heretofore authorised by other officers, 
is revoked. 
Ey order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 7. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office. 
Richmond, January 19, 1863. 
I. The exemption from military service of Route Agents of the 
Post Office Department, having been claimed by the Postmaster 
General, as executive officers of the Confederate States, under the 
act of October 11, 1862, is recognized. Such porsons, if within 
conscript ages, will be enrolled, and furnished with certificates 
exempting them during the continuance of their appointments. 
In all cases v/hero the appointment fails, or the term thereof 
expires, the party is required to report himself to the officer by 
whom he was enrolled, or if he cannot be found, to the Adjutant 
and Inspector General at Richmond. 
II. Hereafter all field artillery, belonging to any separate army, 
will be parked together under the direction of the General, or 
other chief officer of artillery having control of the same, to bo 
distributed, when required, according to the judgment of the 
Commanding General of such army. 
III. Cavalry companies will, as far as practicable, be kept with 
their respective regiments. The practice of detailing such 
companies, or parts of them, as couriers and guides for the Head 
Quarters of General Officers, will be discontinued. Their places 9 
can be supplied by such infantry soldiers as may be able to fur- 
nish themselves with horses, and can be detailed for this duty 
by the General from their respective commands—the number not 
to exceed six for the commander of any corps, four for the com- 
mander of division, and two for commander of brigade. 
IV. Medical officers, in furnishing certificates of disability to 
disabled and invalid officers, will confine themselves to the estab- 
lished Forms of the service, provided for such certificates, and 
will hereafter abstain from recommending them for light duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 8. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, January, 20,1863. 
I. Applications for staff appointments to fill vacancies, whether 
occurring in Divisions, Brigades, Regiments or Battalions, must 
in all cases, besides being sent through the proper channels, be 
accompanied by a statement showing how such vacancies hate 
occurred ; and until the previous incumbent shall have been 
properly disposed of, and his absence accounted for to the satis- 
faction of this Department, no other appointment will be made.* 
II. No transfers of bonded officers from the jfolitigng to. wbich 
they have been originally assigned, until 
ratified by this Department. * \T, 
By order. , if . 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 9. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, January 22, 1863. 
I. Pursuant to section 8 of an “act t@ provide for the public 
defence/’ approved April 16th, 1862, men who are mustered into 
service, bringing with them their own arms, are entitled to one 
dollar per month for the use of the same, from the date of mus- 
tering into service. Should they prefer to receive the full value 
of the arms, the same will be fixed by the mustering officer at 
any muster, according to the value of arms fixed by General 
* See also Par. VII., G. 0. 28. 10 
Orders, No. 78. In either case, the fact will be noted on the 
muster roll by the mustering officer, with a statement of the value 
of the arm, or of the amount due per month, as compensation for 
the use thereof. The sums so due for arms, or use of arms, will 
be paid by the brigade, division, or other ordnance officer, and 
such payment noted on the muster roll. 
Payment for the use of arms will not be made oftener than 
once in six months. 
II. In like manner, cavalry equipments brought into service, 
will be valued by the mustering officer, and the value entered 
upon the muster roll, and paid for at the following rates: 
For a good serviceable saddle, ' from S 15 to § 20 
For a good saddle blanket, “ $ 3 to $ 4 
For a good bridle, “ $ 3 to $ 5 
For a good halter, “ $ 2 to $ 3 
And minor articles, at the discretion of the mustering officer. 
III. General Orders, No. 101, last series from this office, are 
amended, so as to allow that the two surgeons to be employed to 
examine conscripts in each congressional district, may be selected 
from the districts in which they are to act, when surgeons cannot 
be obtained from other congressional districts. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 10. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office. 
Richmond, January 24, 1863. 
The following Orders are published for the information of all 
concerned: 
I. The duties of signal officers are confined to those bearing 
commissions as such, appointed under the acts of Congress, 
approved April 19, 1862, and September 27, 1862. 
II. To any general officer requiring a signal officer and entitled 
thereto, one will be assigned by the Adjutant and Inspector 
General. 
III. All signal officers are required to make their reports, 
returns, &c., through the senior signal officer on duty at the seat 
of government, and paragraph IX, General Orders, No. 40, 1862, 
must be more strictly observed. 
Bv order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 11 
GENERAL ORDERS,' 
- No. 11. 
Adj’t and Insp’b Gen’l’s Office. 
Richmond, January 27, 1863. 
The Military Courts, appointed and organized under the act 
approved October 9th, 1862, will be governed and controlled as 
other Courts Martial, by the Articles of War and Regulations of 
the Army, in connection with the aforesaid act of October 9,1862. 
Their proceedings will, therefore, be subject to review by the Com- 
manding General of the army corps to which they are attached, 
who, by the decision of the President, is the proper reviewing 
officer of all such proceedings, under the provisions of the law 
and the Articles of War. The original proceedings of these 
Courts, after final action is had on them, will be transmitted to 
the office of the Adjutant and Inspector General, agreeably to 
the 90th Article of War. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 12. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, January 28, 1863. 
I. Candidates for appointments of artillery officers for ord- 
nance duty, who have passed their examinations at the head 
quarters ot any army, army corps, or department, may be placed 
on ordnance duty as acting ordnance officers. The number so 
placed on duty shall not exceed one-half of the whole number 
passed there, and shall be taken from the head of the list, with- 
out reference to the grade for which they are recommended. 
Acting ordnance officers, so placed on duty, shall be entitled to 
pay as first lieutenants, if recommended for that, or higher grade, 
anil as second lieutenants, if not recommended for higher grade. 
Commissions will be issued as soon as the examinations are 
completed in all the armies, and will be for grades and dates to 
correspond with the general roll of merit established by the ex- 
aminers. 
IT. The quartermaster’s deportment will issue to officers of the 
army, on duty enrolling conscripts, such fuel and stationery, 
within the limits prescribed by existing regulations for allow- 
ances to public offices, as shall be certified by those officers to be 
indispensable for the proper discharge of their duties. 
The legitimate expenses cf the performance of such duty will 12 
be paid, in the case of enrolling officers not commissioned, upon 
accounts approved by the Commandant of Conscripts for the 
State, or Commander of Camp of Instruction. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 13. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, January 31, 1863. 
I. The following Arsenals, Armories, Depots, &c., are imme- 
diately under charge of the War Department; and its orders will 
be given directly through the Ordnance Bureau, viz : 
Richmond Arsenal, . . . Richmond, Virginia. 
“ Armory, . . . “ “ 
Fayetteville Arsenal and Armory, . Fayetteville, N. 0. 
Charleston Arsenal, . . . Charleston, S. C. 
Augusta Arsenal and Powder Works, . Augusta, Ga. 
Macon Arsenal, .... Macon, Ga. 
“ Armory, . . . . “ “ 
“ Laboratory, . . . “ “ 
Columbus Arsenal, . . . Celumbus, Ga. 
Atlanta Arsenal, .... Atlanta, Ga. 
Mount Vernon Arsenal, . . . Mt. Vernon, Ala. 
Montgomery Arsenal, . . . Montgomery, Ala: 
Selma Arsenal, . . . Selma, Ala. 
Jackson Arsenal, .... Jackson, Miss. 
Greensboro’ Depot, . . . Greensboro’, N. C. 
Danville Depot, .... Danville, Va. 
Lynchburg Depot, . . . Lynchburg, Va. 
Little Rock Arsenal, . . . Little Rock, Ark. 
Texas Arsenal, .... San Antonio, Texas. 
II. The stores fabricated and deposited at these posts, are to 
be drawn out on requisitions, as designated in section V, Ord- 
nance Regulations. 
III. Officers stationed at the Arsenals and Depots will, on their 
first arrival, report in person or by letter to the Commanding 
General of the Department, and will obtain leave of absence 
from him ; but while liable to requisitions made upon the Arse- 
nal or Armory, as provided above, are subject to orders only 
from the War Department, through the Ordnance Bureau. 
IV. The Quartermasters’ Depots at Augusta, Atlanta and 
Columbus, Georgia, and at Montgomery and Huntsville, Ala- bama, having been established by the direction of the War De- 
partment, to supply the necessities of the Army at large, are 
placed under the special control of the Quartermaster General, 
though subject to the inspection of the Commanding Officers of 
the Departments in which they are located. Issues from these 
Depots will be made by order of the Quartermaster General, upon 
requisitions of Chief Quartermasters,'approved by Commanding 
Generals. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 14. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, February 3, 1863. 
I. The 2d clause, paragraph IV, of General Orders, No. 72, of 
1862, is hereby revoked. 
The 4th clause of the same paragraph is amended as follows : 
On a certificate of disability, with recommendation for fur- 
lough or discharge, signed in due form by examining board, and 
approved by the Senior Surgeon of the post, the Commander of 
the post may grant the soldier a furlough, not to exceed thirty 
days, and submit the application for a longer period to. the 
General to whose command the soldier may belong; or he may 
refer, without granting the furlough, to the discretion of said 
Commanding General.* 
II. The Superintendent of the Nitre and Mining Bureau ia 
authorized and directed to enforce existing contracts of the gov- 
ernment in iron, lead and other munitions. Where iron and 
other articles thus contracted for, and needed for the service, are 
ascertained to have been sold at private sale, or are not promptly 
delivered according to the terms and spirit of the contract, they 
may be taken wherever found ; and upon requisitio’n, assistance 
shall be afforded by the commandant of the. nearest post or camp 
of instruction, to the officer or agent of the Mining Bureau spe- 
cially charged with the enforcement of the contract. 
When a contract shall have been persistently violated, after ten 
days’ notice, all detailed or conscripted men will be withdrawn, 
and assigned to other works. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
* Revoked by Par. VrII. Gen. Orders, No, 51. 14 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, February 6, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 15. 
I. All commissioned officers of the army in the service of the 
Confederate States, who are absent from their respective com- 
mands without sufficient authority, and from whom satisfactory 
reports have not been received, will be considered as no longer 
in service, thirty days after the publication of this Order, when 
their names will be erased from the returns of regiments and 
corps. All quartermasters [of the army, charged with the pay- 
ment of troops, are hereby prohibited from malting payments to 
officers who do not exhibit sufficient authority for absence from 
their proper commands; and where any doubt exists in the mind 
of the paying officer, for want of such authority, he will suspend 
payment, and report the case to this office, with the name and 
residence of the officer so absent, and the regiment or corps to 
which he belongs. 
II. Where occasions may arise in military commands, for 
charges against a disbursing officer of the army, arrest will be 
stayed until a report of the facts in the case is duly made to the 
War Department, through the office of the Adjutant and Inspec- 
tor General; and the officer will continue to discharge his duties 
until the department shall take proper measures for his relief 
from duty. 
III. In congressional districts ■where surgeons cannot be “ em- 
ployed” to complete the examining boards for conscripts, direct- 
ed in previous Orders, the commandants of conscripts may con- 
stitute such boards, temporarily, by medical officers under their 
authority. By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 16. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, February 7, 1863. 
I. The special measures instituted in the Circular from this 
office, of the 8th of January, ultimo, were intended to aid, and 
in no wise to supercede the operation and rules of the regularly 
established system of conscription. Reports have been received, 
that officers thus sent from the army have been practically set- 
ting aside the system, decisions and exemptions established un- der the authority of the Commandants of Conscripts in the re- 
spective States, and are neglecting to make to those officers any 
returns of the conscripts gathered by them. 
It is hereby ordered, that all officers acting under the authority 
of the Circular in question, shall refrain from interference with 
any conscripts already in the custody of the officers regularly on 
conscription duty, and shall assert no claim over them, otherwise 
than by estimates on the commandants for the quota to which 
their regiments shall be entitled, under the principle of pro rata 
distribution ; also, that they shall respect certificates of exemp- 
tions issued by regular enrolling officers, reporting for decision 
of tho commandants any case in which the exemption may ap- 
pear to them to have been improperly granted; that in no case 
shall they themselves grant certificates of exemption or detail; 
that in all doubtful cases, or cases of appeal from their decision, 
they shall refer to the regular enroliing officers, or the command- 
ants, and that they shall furnish to the local enrolling officers, or 
the Commandants of Conscripts for the State, descriptive lists of 
all persons within conscript ages, recruited or gathered by them. 
II. The Commandants of Conscripts, in making their reports 
to the Bureau of Conscription, will return separately the con- 
scripts gathered and reported to them under the system institu- 
ted by the Circular above referred to. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 17. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, February 13, 1863. 
I. The following additional appointments under the act of Oc- 
tober the 9th, 1862. providing for the establishment of military 
courts, are announced for the information of all concerned: 
Lieutenant General J. G. Pemberton’s Corps. 
George B. Wilkinson, Presiding Judge, Mississippi. 
John J. Good, Texas. * 
Henry W. Allen, Louisiana. 
John P. McMillan, Judge Advocate, Missouri. 
Lieutenant General W. J. Hardee’s Corps. 
John C. Moore, Presiding Judge, Alabama. 
Samuel J. Gholson, Mississippi. 
Taylor Beatty, Louisiana. 
Benton Randolph, Judge Advocate, Texas. II. The above named members will report without delay to the 
commanding officer of the respective army corps to which they 
belong, to whom their letters of appointment will be forwarded, 
except where they may be called for at this office at an early day. 
III. In all cases where the sentence of a court martial directs 
a forfeiture of pay, the just dues of the laundress are to be un- 
derstood as always excepted from such forfeiture. This excep- 
tion will embrace sums which have accrued as well as those 
which became due during the term of the sentence. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 18. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office* 
Richmond, February 16,1863. 
I. With the exceptions herein after named, all outstanding au- 
thorities issued from the War Department to recruit persons of 
conscript age into regiments, battalions or companies not in ser- 
vice on the 16th day of April 1862, will be held as terminated 
from and after the 10th day of March next. 
Any new organization that shall meantime have been comple- 
ted up to the legal standard of a regiment, battalion or company, 
as may have been specified in the original authority issued, will 
be reported before the 10th of March to the Adjutant and In- 
spector General’s office for muster and reception into service. 
The organization itself failing of completion, the material 
within conscript ages (including officers) of such parts as shall 
have been enrolled for the special service, will be reported to the 
local Commandants of Conscripts, respectively,.for enrollment 
and conscription. These commandants will, however, cause to 
be allowed to the persons thus transferred, previous to enrollment, 
the privilege of volunteering in companies that were in service 
on the 16th of April 1862. 
II. From the operations of this .Order are excepted new com- 
panies or corps in process of organization under authority issuing 
from the War Department, of a date later than the 10th of De- 
cember 1862, and all such as. may have been authorized to be re- 
cruited from material found within districts possessed by the 
enemy, or in which the conscript law has been suspended by the 
President, or in which the regular execution of the conscript law 
is, from the vicinity of the enemy, unattainable. III. Ail officers and persons acting under authority, now and 
hereafter, to recruit new organizations, will report to the Com- 
mandants of Conscripts in their respective States, the names of 
those persons who are employed by them in enlisting recruits. 
In the absence of such official evidence, the enrolling officers 
will not recognize the authority claimed. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 19. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, February 17, 1863. 
With a view to determine the military state of certain persons 
in the army, who have left their regular commands and joined 
others, under the impression that they had a right to do so, but 
are claimed as deserters under existing laws, the following Orders 
are published: 
1. Persons who joined new companies at the expiration of 
their first term of service, under the act authorizing re-enlist- 
ments for the war, will be continued in their present companies* 
provided the facts do not show an intention to desert their former 
commands ; also all paroled prisoners whose term of service had 
expired, and who enlisted in new companies under the provisions 
of General Orders, No. 44, Adjutant and Inspector General’s of- 
fice, Richmond, 17th June 1862, will be continued in their pres- 
ent companies. 
II. All persons who have really deserted and have joined other 
companies, will be returned to their original commands; and the 
benefit of this Order is to be strictly limited to cases arising from 
a misconception of rights and duties under the re-enlistment and 
conscript laws. 
III. The privilege heretofore exercised by troops on the battle 
field, of exchanging their small arms and field pieces fonthose 
captured from the enemy, is hereafter forbidden, and the prohi- 
bition will be strictly enforced by commanders. Disasters may 
easily result from a disregard of this necessary order. All such 
exchanges must be made by proper authority, and with a due re- 
gard to the efficiency of the troops. Captured arms and artillery 
will be turned over to the chief ordnance officer, and be assigned, 
whenever practicable, to the troops to whom the General shall, 
on testimony, award their capture. n 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General, GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 20. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, February 19, 1863. 
I. “ General or other officers commanding army corps or de- 
partments will cause full returns of artillery, ammunition and 
other ordnance stores at the various forts and batteries within 
their commands, to be prepared without delay. 
“The Chief of Ordnance of each army corps or department 
will be held responsible that these returns are forwarded to the 
Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance at Richmond within twenty 
days after the receipt of this Order, and will thereafter see that 
the returns required by paragraph 1348, Army Regulations, are 
regularly forwarded. 
II. “ All ordnance and ordnance stores, including cavalry 
equipments captured from the enemy by Partizan Rangers, shall 
be assessed by competent officers, under orders of the command- 
ing General, entered upon the rolls, and paid for by any ordnance 
officer, upon receipt for the money from the men entitled to the 
property, and a property certificate signed by the officer com- 
manding the company, squadron, battalion or regiment of Ran- 
gers, as the case may be.” The rolls must state distinctly the 
company, battalion or regiment to which the arms are assigned, 
in order that the commanding officer of the same may be charged 
with the property on the books of the treasury. 
III. Paragraphs 117, 118 and 119, Army Regulations (being 
contrary to law), are hereby revoked; and no enlisted man in 
the service of the Confederate States will be employed as a ser- 
vant by any officer of the army. 
IY. When a non-commissioned officer, musician or private en- 
titled to a furlough under the acts of Congress, approved Decem- 
ber 11, 1861, and April 16, J862, shall elect to receive the com- 
mutation value in money in lieu of transportation to his home 
and back, the quartermaster of his regiment will promptly pay 
his account therefor, upon his certificate, approved by his compa- 
ny and regimental commanders, that commutation is justly due 
him in lieu of a furlough. 
Y. In making such payments, quartermasters •will estimate the 
amount due in each case at 2-J- cents per mile for the distance the 
soldier would, if upon furlough, be compelled to travel to and 
from his home. 
YI. Company commanders will be required to state upon their 19 
muster and pay rolls, payments made under these orders, oppo- 
site the name of the-soldier so paid. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 21. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Oen’l’s Office* 
Richmond, February 20, 1863, 
I. When the exigency of the service requires it, ordnance 
stores reported unserviceable by the officer who is responsible for 
them, shall be inspected by the Brigade Inspector, under the di- 
rection of the Inspector General of the Army; or in case of the 
absence of the Brigade Inspector, then by any other officer desig- 
nated by the Inspector General, except the officer accountable for 
the property in question. • 
The inspecting officer shall make a report in accordance with 
paragraphs 925 and 926, Army Regulations ; and whatever stores 
lie considers worn out or unserviceable, he shall order, under the 
direction of the Inspector General, to be dropped. 
II. When requisitions for ordnance stores are made to supply 
deficiencies, a copy of the report of the Inspector shall be ap- 
pended, to show the necessity of the issue. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 22. 
Adj't and Insp’r Gen’i/s Office, 
Richmond, February 23,1863. 
The following additional instructions are published for the 
guidance of the medical officers and surgeons comprising the 
Boards of Examination for conscripts : 
I. In their examination of conscripts, they must exercise a 
sound and firm discretion, and not yield their judgment in favor 
of every complaint of trivial disability, by attaching too much 
importance to which, they indirectly favor evasions of the re- 
quired military service. 
II. As a general rule, it may be received that where a con- 
script is equal to all the active duties of the various occupations 
of civil life, he is able to discharge the duties of a soldier III. Temporary exemption is so liable to. abuse, and to le re- 
sorted to as a means of evasion, that the examining surgeon must 
fix the period for which it is granted (which, with the reasons 
therefor, will be stated in the monthly report); at the expiration 
of which period, the conscript must present himself for examina- 
tion, or be considered absent without leave. 
IV. The following are some of the grounds not deemed suffi- 
cient and satisfactory for exemption: 
1. General Debility.—The grades of this condition are nutner* 
ous, and on receiving them all as grounds for exemption, the ex- 
amining surgeon cannot be considered as discharging his duty to 
the service. In arriving at a correct judgment upon this point, 
he will be aided by the consideration, that observation has by no 
means established that a so called high standard of health is 
best adapted to encounter the exposures of military life, such 
physical condition beings especially liable to disease; while 
health of a lower grade, without any co-existing positive disease, 
is frequently strengthened and improved by the exposures inci- 
dent to the life of a soldier. 
2. In case of slight deformity, natural, or the result of acci- 
dent and irregular union of fractures, unless material impair- 
ment of power and motion results from such deformity, the con- 
scripts must be held liable for military service. 
3. Deafness.—This is not a valid reason for exemption, unless 
so excessive (which must be stated in the monthly report,) as to 
incapacitate a man for the duties of a sentinel. The fact of its 
existence must also be established by the affidavit of a respectable 
physician, who has known the conscript to be the subject of the 
infirmity. 
4. Impediment of Speech—Unless of a very aggravated charac- 
ter, is not a valid reason for exemption. 
5. Heart Disease {organic).—Organic disease of the heart 
being comparatively infrequent, the physical and rational signs 
should be scrutinized with great care, and the subject of exami- 
nation should not be excused unless the case is satisfactorily es- 
tablished. . < 
6. Functional Disturbance of Heart’s Action.—This is very 
common—not a valid ground for exemption, and will generally 
be relieved by change to the life of the camp. 
7. Rheumatism.—The kind should be designated, whether 
acute or chronic, articular or muscular. It is a complaint liable 
to be used as a means of evasion. Where it is simpty muscular, 
without swelling or contraction of the joints, and the general 
health of the conscript is otherwise sound, he bhould be held lia- 
ble to military duty. 
8. Epilepsy.■.—This disease being frequently simulated, so as to impose upon a careless observer, nothing less than the obser- 
vation of an actual paroxysm, or the affidavit of a responsible 
physician acquainted with the conscript, should be deemed satis- 
factory by the examining surgeon. 
9. Varicocele.—Not a ground for exemption, unless excessive; 
which must be stated in the monthly report. 
10. Myopia.—Not a ground for exemption. Many myopic 
subjects distinguish distant o jects with accuracy sufficient for all 
practical purposes. 
11. Hemorrhoids.—As many invalids in civil life, subjects of 
this disorder, are engaged in active occupations, they should not,un- 
less excessive, (which must be stated in the monthly reports,) be 
considered satisfactory grounds for exemption. 
12. Opacity of one Cornea, or the Loss of one Eye.—Not valid 
grounds for exemption. 
13. 1 he Loss of one or two Fingers.—Not sufficient cause for 
exemption. 
14. Single Reducible Hernia.—Not a valid cause for exemption. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 23. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, February 25, 1863. 
I. The senior surgeons of commands entitled to medical direc" 
tors will be detailed as medical directors for such commands- 
Whenever, however, the interest of the service shall require a 
departure from this rule, medical directors for commands will be 
recommended by the Surgeon General, and announced in Orders 
from this office. 
II. Par. YI, Special Orders, No. 79, and par. II, Special Ur* 
ders, No. 80, of last series from this office, directing medical pur- 
veyors to obey all instructions relative to the transfer of medical 
supplies and reports of supplies on hand, emanating from Sur- 
geon E. W. Johns, Medical Purveyor, are hereby revoked ; and 
hereafter all reports will be made direct to the Surgeon General, 
and all instructions to medical purveyors will emanate from his 
office. 
Surgeon Johns will send to the Surgeon General’s office, with- 
out delay, all records, books and papers connected with the du- 
ties assigned him under the above named Orders. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 24. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, March 5, 1863. 
I. Paragraph IV of General Orders, No. 47, of 1862, was de- 
signed to apply solely to the cases of officers whose commands 
had re-organized for the war, agreeably to the acts of Congress, 
No. 306, of December 11, 1861, and No. 397, oi February 15, 
1862, where the officers of sueh re-organized commands had been 
re-elected to the same grade of rank they held in those com- 
mands prior to their re-organization, and before the passage of 
the act of April 16, 1862, commonly known as the “conscription 
act.” 
In all re-organizations of commands under this last named 
act (April 16, 1862), the officers will take rank from the date of 
the act, and their relative rank with each other in the same grade 
will be regulated by the date of their former commissions in the 
service. 
II, Officers of the army who are dropped from the rolls, cash- 
iered by courts martial, or whose resignations are accepted, and 
who may thus become liable to military duty under the conscrip- 
tion acts, will, when present with their commands, be at once 
enrolled by their respective brigade commanders. When not so 
present, their names will bo furnished by their commanding 
officers to the proper enrolling officers of the district to which 
they belong, or in which they reside: provided, that any officer 
so liable to enrollment, may select in his former command, any 
company from his own State in which to be enrolled. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 25, 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, March 6, 1863. 
I. The following Act of Congress and Regulations to enforce 
the same, are published for the information of all persona con- 
cerned ; 
Chap. LXII.—An Act to protect the Rights of Owners of Slaves taken 
by or employed in the army. 
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, Tha1 
every person connected with the army or navy of the Confederate States, arresting or coming into possession of any slave, by capture 
from the enemy, or otherwise than by lawful authority, shall imme- 
diately report the same to the commanding officer of the post or 
brigade or station to which he may be attached. The said com- 
manding officer shall, with as little delay as practicable, send the 
slaves so reported to the nearest depot described in the next sec- 
tion, with a register of the place and date of their arrest: provided, 
however, that the said slaves, or any of them, may at once be deliv- 
ered to their respective owners, if claim is made and established 
on satisfactory evidence. 
Sec. 2. The Secretary of War shall establish depots for re-cap- 
tured slaves, at convenient places, not more than five in number, in 
each State; and all slaves captured in such State shall be kept in 
such depots. Public notice shall be given of the places so se- 
lected. 
Sec. 3. Lists of the slaves in each of such depots, showing the 
name and color of such slaves, the place and time of their arrest, 
and the names of their owners, as given by themselves, or other- 
wise ascertained, shall be regularly advertised in each State, in 
one or more newspapers of general circulation. 
Sec. 4. While such slaves are in depot, they may he employed, 
under proper guard, on public works; but no slave shall be re- 
moved from the depot to which he is first carried, for at least one 
month after the first advertisement of his being there, nor then, un- 
less an exact register is made of the removal, and due advertise- 
ment made in the newspapers as aforesaid. 
Sec. 5. Free access shall be permitted to all persons desiring to 
inspect the said slaves for the purpose of identifying them and es- 
tablishing ownership ; and upon due proof, they shall be imme- 
diately restored to the persons claiming them. 
Sec. 6. It shall further be the duty of the Secretary of War to re- 
quire the names of all slaves- in the employment of an officer or 
soldier of the Confederate army or navy, with the names and resi- 
dence of their owners, and of the person by whom hired out, and of 
the officer or soldier hiring, to be reported to his department, and a 
full register thereof to be kept for public inspection. 
Sec. 7. The President shall prescribe regulations for carrying this 
act into effect, and provide for the subsistence of said slaves while 
in such depots. (Approved Oct. 13, 1862.) 
II. Depots for re-captured slaves are hereby established at the 
following places, viz : 
At the Camp of Instruction at Richmond, in the State of Virginia. 
“ “ “ Petersburg, “ “ 
“ “ Dublin Station, “ ** 
“ “ “ Raleigh, “ N, Carolina, 
“ “ Columbia, “ S. Carolina. 
“ “ Macon, " “ Georgia. 
“ “ Decatur, “ “ At the Camp of Instruction at Notasulga, in the State of Alabama. 
“ “ “ Talladega, “ “ 
“ “ “ Tallahassee, “ Florida. 
“ “ “ Brookhaven, ** Mississippi. 
“ “ “ Enterprize, “ “ 
• “ “ “ Monroe, “ Louisiana. 
“ “ “ Camp Moore, “ “ 
“ “ “ New Iberia, . “ “ 
“ “ Houston, “ Texas. 
“ “ “ Knoxville, “ Tennessee. 
“ “ “ McMinnsville, “ “ 
“ “ “ , Little Rock, “ Arkansas. 
III. The commandants of the several camps of instruction will 
provide necessary quarters for all negroes sent to the depots; 
will detail sufficient guards for their safe keeping; provide for 
their custody, employment and subsistence ; require full and ac- 
curate registers to be kept, and advertisements, as prescribed by 
the act of Congress, to be regularly made, and afford all facili- 
ties to claimants to establish their ownership, and on due proof, 
surrender the slaves to their owners. 
IY. Commanding generals will require all persons connected 
with the army to make immediate report of all slaves arrested or 
coming into their possession ; and if claim is not promptly made 
and established by the owner, will send such slaves, with a regis- 
ter of the place and date of their arrest, with as little delay as 
practicable, to the nearest depot in the State wherein the capture 
is made. They will also require all officers and soldiers now em- 
ploying slaves, forthwith to report the same, and those hereafter 
employing them, within ten days thereafter, with the names and 
residence of their owners, and of the person by whom they were 
hired out, and of the officer or soldier hiring, and return such re- 
ports as soon as received, to this office; and will, in all other re- 
spects, enforce from the officers and men under their command a 
strict and prompt observance of the requirements of the above 
recited act of Congress. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS," 
No. 26.- J 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, March 7, 1863. 
The following order of General Robert E. Lee is adopted by 
the War Department, and is re-published for the information and 
government of all concerned: “ To avoid the danger, if not the certainty, of frequent col- 
lisions, and the consequent destruction of life and property, ae 
well as obstruction to all transportation, it is absolutely necessary 
that the movements of railroad trains should be under one undi- 
vided control. 
These considerations make it imperative that all trains should 
be regulated in their movements and speed, only by their con- 
ductors and engineers, in accordance with the regulations and 
time tables of the company. 
All the operations of a road shopfl be controlled by its super- 
intendent, or other authorized officer; and all orders for trans- 
portation of every kind, and the movement of every train, will 
be directed through him, when the exigencies of the service de- 
mand a variation from the regular schedule. 
Disregard of this rule will inevitably be attended with disas- 
trous consequences.” 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 27. 
Adj’t axd Issr’R GenVs Omci, 
Richmond, March 11, 1863* 
I. By direction of the Secretary of War, the proceedings, find- 
ings and sentence of the General Cou t Martial, held at Knox- 
ville, Tennessee, in the case of Captain H. B. Latrobe, “La- 
trobe’s Battery,” approved by General Ileth, and forwarded to 
the War Department tor confirmation, “under the 89th Article of 
War, are now, upon the report of the facts by General Heth, and 
his action thereon, duly confirmed, and Captain H. B. Latrobe 
ceases to be an officer of the army of the Confederate States. 
II. So much of the sentence of General Court Martial awarded 
against private James T. Wilder, Co. E, 4th Georgia Volunteers, 
as directs his head to be shaved, and he drummed out of the ser- 
vice, is, bv direction of the President, remitted—and private 
Wilder will, at the expiration of the term of his confinement, as 
required by the sentence of the Court, be returned to duty with 
his company. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant, and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 28. 
Adj't and Lvsp’r Gen’l’s Office* 
Richmond, March 12,1863. 
I. No regiment, battalion, squadron or company will be dis- 
banded from the army prior to expiration of service, without ex- 
press authority obtained from the War Department. 
II. Brigadier Generals wH not be detached from their bri- 
gades, nor Colonels from their regiments, except on ordinary 
temporary duty, without tha special authority of the War De- 
partment. 
III. The appointment of officers of the army being vested by 
the constitution in the President, by and with the advice and con- 
sent of the Senate, commanding and other officers are hereby 
$iutionetl against assumption of this authority. All payments 
made to persons appointed as officers by military commanders, 
will be charged against the disbursing officers making such pay- 
ments. 
IV. The impositions attempted to be practiced on officers of 
the Quartermaster's Department, charged with paying troops? 
call for the following regulations in respect to the payment of 
officers absent from their proper commands, viz: Regimental 
Quartermasters will furnish to officers of their regiments about 
to leave their commands on detached duty, certificates of last pay- 
ment made by them to such officers ; which certificates will be 
depos’ted with the pay officer making the next payment, who 
will, on such further payment, give the officer a like certificate. 
Payments to officers absent from their appropriate commands, 
sxcept those placed on detached duty by competent authority, 
and sick and wounded officers absent by like authority, are ex- 
pressly prohibited. * 
V. Genera] hospitals will be under the supervision and con- 
trol of medical directors specially selected for the purpose, and 
announced as such in orders from this office. Medical directors 
of armies, army corps and departments vrrll not interfere with 
this arrangement in respect to the general hospitals. 
VI. Doubts having arisen in respect to the mode of addressing 
communications, and in passing them through the channel pro- 
vided in the 34th article of General Regulations, it is hereby di- 
rected that the party making the communication will address 
* Modified by General Orders, No, 67. himself to the staff officer of the General or other commanding 
officer who may have the right finally to decide on the question 
or application presented ; and if the subject matter of the com- 
munication be such as to require uhe action of the War Depart- 
ment, it will be addressed to the Adjutant and Inspector General 
through the usual channel. AH communications in the ascend- 
ing line will be passed through the several intermediate com- 
manders, until they reach the officer having the final control. 
For example: Communications from the members of a company 
wiil pass through the commander of the company; thence, to the 
commander of the battalion or regiment; thence, to the com- 
mander of the brigade; thence, to the division commander; next, 
to the commander of the army corps; and finally, to the General 
commanding in chief, for their several remarks; and, if further 
reference be required, to the Adjutant and Inspector General. 
VII. All recommendations from officers of the army, for mili- 
tary appointments to be conferred, will, besides giving the char- 
acter and qualifications of the person recommended, name the 
State in which he was born, and of which he claims to be a citi- 
zen. * 
VIII. Paragraph II, Oeneral Orders, No. 97, December 1, 
1862, may be so modified as to read, “ Officers and agents of the 
Quartermaster’s Department are hereby ordered not to interfere 
with leather purchased or contracted for by officers or agents of, 
or contractors with, the Ordnance Department.” 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant -and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 29. 
Adj’t and Insf’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, March 14, 1863. 
I. At a Court of Enquiry, convened at Chattanooga, Tennes* 
eee, February 26th, 1863, by virtue of General Orders, No. 38’ 
Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond, Va., issued 
in pursuance of an net approved April 21, 1862, was arraigned 
and tried Lieut. Thomas Nall, Co. B, 5th Georgia Volunteers, 
on the charge of drunkenness. 
II. The Court confirmed the plea of “ guilty ” by the accused, 
and sentenced him to be suspended from command and pay for 
one month, and to be publicly reprimanded. 
* See also General Orders, No, 103 Ill, The proceedings having been submitted to the Secretary 
of War, to be laid before the President, the following decision 
has been made thereon: 
“ The sentence of the CourLapproved: but in consideration of 
the habitual sobriety of Lieut. Nall, and his previous good char- 
acter, sq much of the sentence as suspends him from command 
and pay is remitted.” 
Lieut. Nail will therefore be restored to duty with his compa- 
ny ; but the department takes occasion to express its decided 
disapprobation of his conduct on the occasion referred to in the 
proceedings. 
IY. The Court of Enquiry in the foregoing case is hereby dis- 
solved. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 30. 
Adj’t AND InSp’r GenVs OFFICE, 
Richmond, March 18, 1863. 
I. Any employee of a government establishment, who shall 
leave such employment, shall not be received at any other gov- 
ernment establishment, or by any contractor under the govern- 
ment, unless he exhibits a proper discharge from the employment 
which he leaves. 
II. Any contractor under the government, who shall employ 
any workman leaving, without proper discharge, a government 
establishment, or the employment of another contractor under 
the government, shall be notified at once that the detailed men 
and conscripts in his employment be returned to their proper offi- 
cers, upon report of the facts to the Chief of Ordnance. * 
III. The orders heretofore given arc repeated, that conscripts 
'or detailed men leaving their employment without written per- 
mission, shall be reported to the nearest enrolling officer, to b® 
tried and punished as deserters, 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
* Amended by Par. Ill, General Orders, No. 32. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 31. 
Adj't and Insp’r GenVs OrncE, 
Richmond, March 19,1863. 
In consequence of' numerous applications made by various per- 
sons to the War Department, it ie obvious that some misconcep- 
tion in regard to the instructions of the Secretary of War in re- 
lation to the impressment of supplies, must exist on the part of 
the people, or that the agents of the government have violated 
their instructions : Now, therefore, for the purpose of removing 
Buch misconception, aud to prevent any violation of those in- 
structions, it is hereby ordered : 
I. That no officer of the government shall, under any circum- 
stances whatever, impress the supplies which a party has for his 
own consumption, or that of his family, employees, or slaves. 
II. That no officer shall at any time, unless specially ordered 
bo to do by a General commanding, in a case of exigency, im- 
press supplies which are on their way to market for sale on arri- 
val. 
III. These orders were included in the instructions originally 
issued in relation to impressment by the Secretary of War; and 
the officers exercising such authority are again notified, that 
“ any one acting without or beyond” the authority given in those 
instructions, will be held strictly responsible. 
IV. When non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates 
entitled to furloughs under the act of December 11th, 1861, or 
that of April 16th, 1862, have died, or may hereafter die, before 
the receipt thereof, their personal representatives shall be allowed 
the commutation value of transportation from the point where 
such parties die, to their homes and back. 
V. When non commissioned officers, musicians or privates, en- 
titled under either of the preceding acts to a furlough, shall have 
been, or may hereafter be promoted to the rank of commissioned 
officers, prior to the receipt thereof, they shall be allowed the 
same commutation as is provided in the previous paragraph, or 
when they go on leave, the transportation in kind, at tbeir option. 
VI.. Claims arising under paragraph I, will be settled by the 
Second Au#tor; those under paragraph IT, by officers of the 
Quartermaster’s department. In the latter class, the facts must 
be attested by the certificate of the commanding officer of th# 30 
regiment to which the claimant belonged at the date of his pro- 
motion.* 
By order 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
* Amended by Par. V; uen. Orders No. 33. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 32. 
Ad.Pt and Insp’r Gen’i/s Office. 
Richmond, March 21, 1863. 
I. Paragraph V, General Orders, No. 66. Adjutant and Inspec- 
tor General’s Office, September 12th, 1862, is so far amended as 
to read as follows :: 
Enrolling or recruiting officers, in the discharge of their dutiea 
under the conscript or other acts, are enjoined not to remove or 
interfere with workmen or employees at the nitre, lead or copper 
works, or mines or furnaces worked by government officers, or by 
contractors for the Ordnance department, without first apprising 
and obtaining the consent of the superintendent or officer in 
charge, who will be held strictly responsible for any abuse or 
evasion of the law. 
II. The operation of paragraph 1253, Confederate States Army 
Regulations, is hereby suspended during the existing war. 
III. Paragraph II, General Orders, No. 30, current series, ia 
amended to read as follows : 
Any contractor under the government, who shall employ any 
workman leaving, without proper discharge, a government estab- 
lishment, or the employment of another contractor under the 
government, shall be notified at once that the detailed men and 
conscripts in his employment be returned to their proper officers, 
upon report of the facts to the Chief of the Bureau or Depart- 
moot for the service of which the details were made. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Jnsyecty General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 33. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen Vs Office, 
Richmond, March 26, 1863. 
I. The corps of officers for ordnance duty will hereafter be 
composed exclusively as follows* viz : 
1st. Officers of the regular Confederate army, detailed by the 
War Department for ordnance duty. 
2d. Officers of the provisional artillery, appointed under the act 
of congress April 21st, 1862. 
3d. Officers of the provisional artillery for ordnance duty, ap- 
pointed under act of 16th September 1862 (including at present 
those on duty under General Orders, No. 12, 1863). 
4th. Officers of artillery in the provisional army and volunteer 
corps, appointed under act of congress approved January 22d, 
1862, and detailed on ordnance duty by the War Department. 
5th. Officers of the Nitre and Mining hureau, appointed under 
act of Congress. 
II. Officers heretofore assigned to ordnance duty, under provi- 
sions of General Orders, No. 24 and No. 46, of 1862, although 
not forming a part of the ordnance corps, will continue to be 
recognized in their positions until relieved by the assignment of 
officers of the ordnance corps regularly appointed or detailed. 
Officers of this class will be replaced by the regularly appointed 
officers assigned for ordnance duty, at the discretion of any Gen- 
eral commanding an army or department, when the interest of 
the service requires it. 
All such changes will be communicated to the Chief of Ordi- 
nance at Richmond. 
III. All officers in charge of arsenals, armories, work shops, 
depots, or other posts, where work is performed by detailed men, 
who are paid by the department in which they are employed, 
and who relinquish claim for pay as soldiers, shall make monthly 
reports to the chiefs of their respective bureaux, containing full 
lists and descriptions of the men, with a correct statement of the 
pay they receive. These reports will be forwarded to the Quar- 
termaster General, for the information and guidance of the Pay 
department, to prevent the payment of fraudulent claims. 
IY. All Generals or other officers commanding military depart- 
ments or districts, will require from provost marshals and com- 
mandants of prisons, monthly reports of all citizens and other 
persons, not connected with the Confederate army, held in con- finement, with specifications of date and cause of arrest, and by 
whom arrested, accompanied with such remarks as they may 
deem proper, and forward the same without delay to this office 
V. Paragraph VI, General Orders, No. 31, current series, is so 
far amended as to read as follows : 
Claims arising under paragraph IV, will be settled by the 
second auditor; those under paragraph V, by officers of the Quar- 
termaster’s department. In the lattar class, the facts must be 
attested by the certificate of the commanding officer of the regi- 
ment to which the claimant belonged at the date of his promotion. 
By order. 
S. COOPER. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 34. 
Adj’t and Insp’k GenVs Office, 
Richmond, April 1, I860, 
I. The attention of commanding and other officers is called to 
the act of congress of April .21, 1862, as published in General 
Orders, No. 38, of that year. A more rigid enforcement of the 
requirements of that act on the part of commanding officers 
therein referred to, is deemed important to the interest of the 
service. 
II. The geographical limits of the command of Lieutenant 
General Longstreet, embracing the Defences of Richmond, and 
extending south, to include the State of North Carolina—the 
whole under the supervision and general direction of General It. 
E. Lee—will be divided into three Military Departments, as fol- 
lows ; All north of the James river, for the defence of Richmond, 
will constitute the Department of Richmond, underAflfcior Gene- 
ral Elzey—Head Quarters, Richmond. All that pwflSfn of Vir- 
ginia south of the James river, and east of the county of Pow- 
hatan, will constitute the Department of Southern Virginia, under 
Major General French, Head Quarters at some central point near 
the Blackwater. The State of North Carolina will constitute the 
Department of North Carolina, under Major General D. H. Hill 
—Head Quarters, Goldsboro’. 
III. The price of beef hides, transferred in accordance with 
paragraph III, General Orders, No. 64, of 1862, will be at the 
following rates: For green hides, five cents per pound, and dry 
hides ten cents per pound, in the Trans-Mississippi Department • and for all beef hides, east of the Mississippi river, thirty cents 
per pound. 
These prices will be paid by the Quartermaster and Assistant 
Quartermaster to the Commissaries transferring them, and the 
latter will account for the fund thus received, in their next ac- 
counts current. 
IV. By General Orders, No. 61, paragraph II, last series, from 
this office, Quartermasters are directed to bear on their returns, 
ambulances and wagons for the transportation of regimental hos- 
pital supplies, the teams and drivers. It is also their duty to 
keep them in good condition, and ready for active service. Com* 
manders will require the performance of this duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 35. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
jRichmond, April 4, 1863. 
I. Afc a General Court Martial, convened at Pollard, Alabama, 
December 9th, 1862, by virtue of General Orders, No. 93, Head 
Quarters District of the Gulf, were arraigned and tried: 
1. —Major M. R. Marks, 2d Alabama Cavalry: 
On the following charges: (Specifications omitted in this Or* 
der.) 
Charge lsrf, - - Violation of the 24th Article of War. 
Charge 2d, - - Violation of the 99th Article of War. 
Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
The Court find the accused, Major M. It. Marks, 2d Regiment 
Cavalry, guilty of the charges preferred, and sentence him to be 
dismissed from the service of the Confederate States. 
2. —Colonel F. M. Hunter, 2d Regiment Alabama Cavalry: 
Charge ls£, - - Violation of 6th Article of War. 
Charge 2d, • - Violation of 24th Article of War. 
Charge 3d, - - Violation of 83d Article of War. 
Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
The Court find the accused, Colonel F. M. Hunter, 2d Regiment Alabama Cavalry, guilty of the charges preferred, and sentence 
him to be dismissed from the service of the Confederate States. 
II. The proceedings, findings and sentences in the foregoing 
cases having been submitted to the President, are by him appro- 
ved. Major M. R. Marks and Colonel F. M. Ilunter, 2d Alabama 
Cavalry, cease to be officers of the Confederate States army from 
this date. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS,* 
No. 36. 
Adj't and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, April, 6, 1863. 
The Superintendent of the Nitre and Mining Bureau is author- 
ized to pay, from the appropriation for the purchase and manu- 
facture of nitre, the actual travelling expenses of officers of the 
nitre corps on duty, under orders, in lieu of any commutation 
for the time, of rations and forage. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
* Revoked by Gen. Orders, No. 102. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 37. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office> 
Richmond, April 6, 1863. 
I. The following Acts of Congress, concerning “impressments” 
and the instructions of the War Department respecting it, are 
published for the information and direction of all concerned : 
“ Whenever the exigencies of any army in the field are such 
as to make impressments of forage, articles of subsistence or 
other property absolutely necessary, then such impressments may 
be made by the officer or officers whose duty it is to furnish such 
forage, articles of subsistence or other property of such army. 
In cases where the owner of such property and the impressing 
officer cannot agree upon the value thereof, it shall be the duty 
of such impressing officer, upon an affidavit in writing of the 
owner of such property, or his agent, that such property was 
grown, raised or produced by said owner, or is held or has been 35 
purchased by him, not for sale or speculation, but for his own 
use or consumption, to cause the same to be ascertained and de- 
termined by the judgment of two loyal and disinterested citizens 
of the city, county or parish in which such impressments may 
be mn,de—one to be selected by the owner; one by the impress- 
ing officer; and in the event of their disagreement, these two 
shall choose an umpire of like qualifications, whose decision shall 
be final. The persons thus selected, after taking an oath to ap- 
praise the property impressed fairly and impartially (which oath, 
as well as the affidavit provided for in this section, the impressing 
officer is hereby authorized to administer and certify,) shall pro- 
ceed to assess just compensation for the property so impressed, 
whether the absolute ownership or the temporary use thereof 
only is required. 
“ Sec. 2. That the officer or person impressing property as 
aforesaid, shall, at the time of said taking, pay to the owner, his 
agent or attorney, the compensation fixed by said appraisers; 
and shall all also given to the owner, or person controlling said 
property, a certificate, over his official signature, specifying the 
battalion, regiment, brigade, division or corps to which he be- 
longs, that said property is essential for the use of the army, 
could not be otherwise procured, and was taken through absolute 
necessity; setting forth the time and place when and where 
taken, the amount of compensation fixed by said appraisers, and 
the sum, if any, paid for the same. Said certificate shall be evi- 
dence for the owner, as well of the taking of said property for 
the public use, as the right of the owner to the amount of com- 
pensation fixed as aforesaid. And in case said officer or per- 
son taking said property shall have failed to pay the owner or 
his agent said cempensation as herein before required, then said 
owner shall be entitled to the speedy payment of the same by the 
proper disbursing officer ; which, when so paid, shall be in full 
satisfaction of all claim against the government of the Confede- 
rate States. 
“ Sec. 3. Whenever the appraisement provided for in the first 
section of this act shall, for any reason, be impracticable at the 
time of said impressment, then, and in that case, the value of 
the property impressed shall be assessed as soon as possible by 
two loyal and disinterested citizens of the city, county or par- 
ish, wherein the property was taken, chosen as follows: One by 
the owner, and one by the Commissary or Quartermaster Gene- 
ral, or his agent, who, in case of disagreement, shall choose a 
third citizen of like qualifications as an umpire, to decide the 
matters in dispute, who shall be sworn as aforesaid, who shall 
hear the proofs adduced by the parties as to the value of said 
property, and assess a just compensation therefor, according to 
the testimony. 36 
“ Sec. 4. That whenever the Secretary of War shall be of opin- 
on that it is necessary to take private property for public use, by 
reason of the impracticability of procuring the same by purchase, 
so as to accumulate necessary supplies for the army, or the good 
of the service, in any locality, he may, by general order, through 
the proper subordinate officers, authorize such property to be ta- 
ken for the public use; the compensation due the owner for the 
same to be determined and the value fixed as provided for in the 
first and second sections of this act. 
“ Sec. 5. That it shall be the duty of the President, as early 
as practicable after the passage of this act, to appoint a commis- 
sioner in each State where property shall be taken for the public 
use, and request the Governor of such of the States in which the 
President shall appoint said commissioner, to appoint another 
commissioner, to act in conjunction with the commissioner ap- 
pointed by the President, who shall receive the compensation of 
eight dollars per day, and ten cents per mile as mileage, to be 
paid by the Confederate government. Said commissioners shall 
constitute a board, whose duty it shall be to fix upon the prices 
to be paid by the government for all property impressed or taken 
for the public use as aforesaid, so as to afford just compensation 
to the owners thereof. Said commissioners shall agree upon and 
publish a schedule of prices every two months, or oftener if they 
shall deem it proper; and in the event they shall not be able to 
agree in any matter confided to them in this act, they shall have 
power to appoint an umpire to decide the matter in dispute, 
whose decision shall be the decision of the board; and said um- 
pire shall receive the same rate of compensation for the time he 
shall serve, allowed to said commissioners respectively: Provided, 
that said commissioners shall be residents of the State for which 
they shall be appointed; and if the Governor of any State shall 
refuse or neglect to appoint said commissioner within ten days 
after a request to do so by the President, then the President shall 
appoint both commissioners, by and with the advice and consent 
of the senate. 
“ Sec. 6. That all property impressed or taken for the public use, 
as aforesaid, in the hands of any person other than the persons 
who have raised, grown or produced the same, or persons holding 
the same for their own use or consumption, and who shall make 
the affidavit as herein before required, shall be paid for accord- 
ing to the schedule of prices fixed by the commissioners as afore- 
said. But if the officer impressing or taking for the public use 
such property, and the owner, shall differ as to the quality of the 
article or property impressed or taken as aforesaid;* thereby mak- 
ing it fall within a higher or lower price named in the schedule, 
then the owner or agent and the officer impressing or taking, as 
aforesaid, may select each a loyal and disinterested citizen, of the qualifications as aforesaid, to determine the quality of said arti- 
cle or property, who shall, in case of disagreement, appoint an 
umpire of like qualifications, and his decision, if approved by the 
officer impressing, shall be final; but if not approved, the im- 
pressing officer shall send the award to the commissioners of the 
State where the property is impressed, with his reasons for dis- 
approving the same, and said commissioners may hear such 
proofs as the parties may respectively adduce, and their decision 
shall be final: Provided, that the owner may receive the price 
offered by the impressing officer, without prejudice to his claim 
to receive the higher compensation. 
“ Sec. 7. That the property necessary for the support of the 
owner and his family, and to carry on his ordinary agricultural 
and mechanical business, to be ascertained by the appraisers, to 
be appointed as provided in the first sectifin of this act, under 
oath, shall not be taken or impressed for the public use; and 
when the impressing officer and the owner cannot agree as to the 
quantity of property necessary as aforesaid, then the decision of 
the said appraisers shall be binding on the officer and all other 
persons. 
“ Sec. 8. Where property has been impressed for temporary 
use, and is lost or destroyed, without the default of the owner* 
the government of the Confederate States shall pay a just com- 
pensation therefor ; to by appraisers appointed and 
qualified as provided in the first section of this act. If such 
property when returned has, in -the opinion of the owner, been 
injured whilst in the public use, the amount of damage thereby 
sustained shall be determined in the manner described in the 
third section of this act, the officer returning the property being 
authorized to act on behalf of the government; and upon such 
enquiry, the certificate of the value of the property, when origi- 
nally impressed, shall be received as yrima facie evidence of the 
value thereof. 
“Sec. 9. Where slaves are impressed by the Confederate gov- 
ernment to labor on fortifications or other public works, the im- 
pressment shall be made by said government according to the 
rules and regulations provided in the laws of the State wherein 
they are impressed; and in the absence of such law, in accord- 
ance with such rules and regulations not inconsistent with the 
provisions of this act, as the Secretary of War shall from time to 
time prescribe: Provided, that no impressment of slaves shall 
be made when they can be hired or procured by the consent of 
the owner or agent. 
“ Sec. 10, That previous to the first day of December next, no 
slave laboring on a farm or plantation exclusively devoted to the 
production of grain and provisions, shall be taken for the public 38 
use, without the consent of the owner, except in case of urgent 
necessity. 
“ Sec. 11. That any commissioned or non-commissioned officer 
or private who shall violate the provisions of this act, shall be 
tried before the military court of the corps to which he is attach- 
ed, on complaint made by the owner or other person ; and on 
conviction, if an officer, he shall be cashiered and put into the 
ranks as a private; and if a non-commissioned officer or private, 
he shall suffer such punishment, not inconsistent with military 
law, as the court may direct.” 
' II.—1. By the authority of the act of Congress aforesaid, the 
Secretary of War hereby recognizes impressment as a legal and 
operative mode of securing necessary supplies of subsistence, 
medical and quartermaster’s stores fur the armies of the Confed- 
erate States in the field, and to accumulate them in magazines, 
posts and depots, owing to the impracticability of procuring them 
by contract. 
2. Impressments may be made under orders from Generals 
commanding armies, departments, corps, divisions, brigades, and 
by commanders of detached parties and posts, when a necessity 
arises; which orders may be executed by quartermasters, com- 
missaries or medical purveyors and their subordinates, for their 
respective departments. 
The Quartermaster General, CommissWy General and Surgeon 
General may designate the officers and persons who shall be com- 
petent to make impressments to accumulate supplies at posts and 
depots. 
3. No officer or agent shall impress the necessary supplies 
which any person may have for the consumption of himself, his 
family, employees, slaves, or to carry on his ordinary mechanical, 
manufacturing or agricultural employments. 
4. Before any impressment of property shall take place, the 
impressing officer or his agent shall make an offer, addressed to 
the owner, his bailie or other agent, to purchase the property, 
describing the property he wishes to purchase, the price to be 
paid, and the mode of payment, whether in money, or by certifi- 
cate, and stating that upon the refusal of the price offered, that 
compensation for the property will be made according to the act 
of Congress aforesaid, for the regulation of impressments ; which 
notice shall bind the said property until the completion of the ne- 
gotiation for the sale or appropriation thereof, so that there can 
be no removal or transfer of the same. 
5. In the event of the refusal of the price offered, the impress- 
ing officer shall proceed to settle the compensation to be paid, ac- 
* See Par. I. General Orders, No. 39. cording to the first section of the act aforeeaid, if the property 
belongs to a person who has grown, raised, or produced the same, 
or who holds or has purchased the same for his own use or con.- 
sumption ; but the said property shall be paid for according to 
the 5th section of the act aforesaid, if the property is held for 
sale or other purposes than those before mentioned.* 
6. That the property shall remain in the possession of the 
owner, bailee or agent, and at his risk, during the pendency 
of the proceedings for the ascertainment of the compensation, 
unless it shall be otherwise agreed to, or unless some urgent ne- 
cessity shall require the possession of the property to be changed. 
In case of a change of possession, the Confederate States shall 
be regarded as the owner, and the property shall be held for their 
account and risk. 
7- The impressing officer shall, at the date of the impressment, 
pay to the owner, his agent or attorney in fact, the compensation 
agreed upon, if it be practicable; but if he cannot do so, he shall 
give a certificate, according to the second section of the act afore- 
said ; which shall be paid upon presentation to the disbursing 
officers, who shall be designated for that purpose. 
8. Impressments, which shall be made before the appointment 
of the commissioners designated in the 5th section of the act 
aforesaid, shall notwithstanding be legal, and in the cases provi- 
ded for by that section, a portion of the property shall be retain- 
ed as samples, so that the price may be settled and compensation 
adjusted according to the provisions of the same. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 38. 
Adj't and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, April 7, 1863. 
I. The following provision of an act of the legislature of Vir- 
ginia, passed March 26th, 1863, is, by the direction of the Presi- 
dent, published for the information and guidance of such officers 
and soldiers of the Confederate States army as it concerns: 
“ 7. Be it further enacted, that it shall be the duty of the gov- 
ernor of the commonwealth to issue his proclamation giving 
notice to the qualified voters of the state in the military service 
of the state or of the Confederate States, or who may be absent 
from the county or corporation of their residence, because of the 
* Amended by General Orders, No. 161. 40 
presence of the public enemy, of their right to vote for members 
of the general assembly, by virtue of the provisions of the first, 
second and fourth sections of the ordinance passed by the con- 
vention of Virginia (No. 99) on the sixth day of December, 
1861. And also to all whom it may concern, of the passage of 
this act, and of the rights and duties set forth in its provisions : 
and it shall further be his duty to request the President of the 
Confederate States to issue an order to all commandants of camps, 
posts and detachments in command of Virginia troops, requiring 
them to give their aid in the due execution of the ordinance 
aforesaid and of this act." 
II. Cadets, on attaining their majority, will be examined, and 
if found competent, will be promoted to the grade of second lieu- 
tenant in the arm of the service to which they are attached. 
Commanders of armies in the field are charged with the assem- 
bling of the requisite boards. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 39. 
Adj’t and Insp’t GenVs Oefice, 
Richmond, April 10, 1863. 
I. That in all cases of impressment heretofore made under the 
authority of any of the persons mentioned in paragraph 2d of 
section 11, of General Orders, No. 37, in which the property 
impressed is either in the possession of the owner or of the 
impressing officer or his subordinates, and the compensation 
therefor shall not have been adjusted, and it shall be necessary 
to determine the compensation to be made, It shall be lawful to 
employ the rules and agencies provided in the act of congress 
concerning impressment, and the General Orders aforesaid for 
that purpose, in the same manner and under the same circum- 
stances as if the impressment had been made since the date of 
the same. 
II. “ Conscripts examined prior to the publication of General 
Orders, No. 22, Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Febru- 
ary 23d, 1863, and excused from military service, for reasons 
announced in that order as insufficient cause for exemption, -will 
be re-examined by the examining board of surgeons appointed 
for the different congressional districts, and’if not deemed unfit 
for military duty under the instructions issued, will be received 
into service.” 41 
“ Temporary exemption" will not be given for a “ period be- 
yond thirty days." 
By order, 
S. COOPER, 
. Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 40. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen'l’s Office, 
Richmond, April 11, 1863. 
I. At a Court of Inquiry convened January 20th, 1863, at 
Quincy, Florida, by virtue of General Orders of January 8th, 
1863, Department of Florida, and in pursuance of the act of 21st 
April, 1862, “to punish drunkenness in the army," was ar- 
raigned and tried: 
Captain IIaley T. Blocker, Blocker’s Cavalry, P. A. C. S.: 
On the charge of Drunkenness. 
(The Specifications are omitted in this Order on account of 
their prolixity.) 
Finding and Sentence. 
The Court find the accused “guilty" of the charge, and sen- 
tence him to be suspended from his command for twenty days. 
II. The proceedings in the foregoing case having been sub- 
mitted to the Secretary of War, to be laid before the President, 
have been retured to this office, with the following order thereon 
endorsed: 
“ The finding of the Court of Inquiry, convened at Quincy, 
Florida, in the case of Captain Haley T. Blocker, of the cavalry, 
charged with drunkenness, under the act of congress of April 
21st, 1862, has been examined, and upon consideration thereof, 
the same is approved. The sentence of the Court is regarded as 
very lenient, and the department cannot but express the hope 
that it will be received by the officer as a solemn admonition as 
well as a rebuke. 
“ The department, in reviewing the proceedings, is compelled 
to express its disapprobation of the harsh language employed 
against the prosecutor, in the course of the same, by the defend- 
ant's counsel. The prosecutor performed a duty, imposed by act 
of congress/' 
Ill, The General commanding will carry into effect the sen- 42 
tence in the case, and direct the dissolution of the Court of In- 
quiry, 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 41. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, April 14, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Martial, held at Holly Springs, Miss., 
October 25th, 1862, by virtue of General Orders, No. 3, from the 
Head Quarters of the Department of Mississippi and Louisiana, 
of October 18, 1862, was arraigned and tried ; 
First Lieutenat Mason G. Anderson, Company G, 31st Miss. 
Volunteers, on the following Charge—(The Specifications are 
here omitted :) 
Charge, . . Violation of the 77th Artiole of War, 
II. Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
Of the 1st Specification, .... Not Guilty. 
Of the 2d Specification, .... Guilty. 
Of the 3d Specification, ., , . . Guilty, 
Of the Charge, ..... Guilty. 
And the Court, after mature deliberation, sentence the said 
Mason G. Anderson, First Lieutenant Company G, 31st Miss, 
Volunteers, to be cashiered. 
III. The proceedings in the foregoing case having been laid 
before the Secretary of War, to be submitted to the President, 
the following order has been made thereon : 
The proceedings, findings and sentence in the case of Lieut. 
Mason G. Anderson are approved and confirmed ; but in con- 
sideration of his good character, as established at his trial, and 
the recommendation of a portion of the officers of his company, 
the sentence is remitted, and Lieutenant Anderson will be re- 
stored to duty with his company. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General, 43 
GENERAL ORDERS,' 
No. 42. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, April 14, 1863. 
I. At the Military Court of the Department of Virginia and 
North Carolina, appointed under Act of Congress of October 
9th, 1862, was arraigned and tried; 
Major Kirkwood Otey, 11th Regiment Va. Infantry, on the 
following Charges—(The Specifications are omitted:) 
Charge 1 st, . Drunkenness on duty. 
Charge 2d, . Violation of the 77th Article of War. 
II. Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
The Court affirm the plea of the said Major Kirkwood Otey, 
11th Va. Infantry, to the first Charge, and Specification there- 
under, and find him 
Of the Specification of 1st Charge, . . Guilty. 
Of the 1st Charge, .... Guilty. 
Of the 1st Specification of 2d Charge, . . Not Guilty. 
Of the 2d Specification of 2nd Charge, . . Not Guilty. 
Of the 2d Charge, .... Not Guilty. 
And do, therefore, sentence him, the said Major Kirkwood 
Otey, 11th Ya. Infantry, to be cashiered, and dismissed the ser- 
vice of the Confederate States. 
III. The proceedings in the foregoing case having been laid 
before the Secretary of War, to be submitted to the President, 
the following order has been made thereon; 
The proceedings, findings and sentence in the case of Major 
Kirkwood Otey, 11th Regiment Ya. Infantry, are approved ; but 
in consideration of his previous good character, and the recom- 
mendation of the Court and the General commanding, the sen- 
tence is remitted, and Major Otey will be restored to duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, • 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS,' 
No. 43. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, April 15, 1863. 
X, At the Military Court of the Department of Yirginia nod 44 
North Carolina, held at Petersburg, Va. March 13th, 1863, was 
arraigned and tried : 
First Lieut, and Adjt. John N. C. Stockton, of the 1st Regi- 
ment of Virginia Infantry, on the following Charges—(The 
Specifications are omitted in this order :) 
Charge 1st, . . Violation of the 45th Article of War* 
Charge 2d, . . Conduct prejudicial to good order and 
military discipline. 
II. Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
The Court having maturely considered the case, find the ac- 
cused, First Lieut, and Adjt. John N. C. Stockton, 1st Virginia 
Infantry, as follows: 
Of the 1st Specification of 1st Charge, . . Guilty. 
Of the 2d Specification of 1st Charge, . . Guilty. 
Of the 1st Charge, ..... Guilty. 
Of the Specification of 2d Charge, ; . . Guilty. 
Of the 2d Charge, ..... Guilty. 
And do, therefore, sentence him to be cashiered, and dismissed 
the service of the Confederate States. 
III. The proceedings in the foregoing case having been laid 
before the Secretary of War, to be submitted to the President, 
the following orders are made thereon ; 
The proceedings, findings and sentence in the case of First 
Lieut, and Adjt. John N. C. Stockton, 1st Virginia Infantry, are 
approved; but in consideration of the previous good character, 
and the recommendation of the Court and Commanding General, 
the sentence is remitted, and Lieut, and Adjt. Stockton will be 
restored to duty with his regiment. His conduct is deemed highly 
discreditable ; but the department indulges the hope that this 
exercise of clemency towards him will exert a beneficial influence 
over his future course, both as an officer and citizen. 
By order, 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 44. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l's Office, 
Richmond, April, 16, 1863. 
The following Acts having been duly approved by the Presi- 
dent, are published for the information of all concerned: 45 
An Act to prohibit the Punishment of Soldiers by Whipping, 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
that from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful 
for any court martial or military court to cause any soldier in the 
service of the Confederate States to be punished by whippirfg, or 
the infliction of stripes upon his person ; and that all laws and 
customs contravening the previsions of this act, be and the same 
are hereby repealed. 
Sec. 2. That article twenty of the Articles of War be so amen- 
ded as to read as follows: ‘ All officers and soldiers who have 
received pay, or have been duly enlisted in the service of the 
Confederate States, and shall be convicted of having deserted the 
Bame, shall suffer death or confinement in a penitentiary, with or 
without hard labor, for a period not less than one year or more 
than five, or such other punishment, not inconsistent with the 
provisions of this act, as the court martial or military court may 
determine.’ ” [Approved April 13, 1863.] 
An Act to Exempt Contractors for Carrying the Mails of the Con- 
federate States and the Drivers of Post Coaches and Hacks from 
Military Service. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact’ 
That the contractors for carrying the Mails of the Confederate 
States shall be exempt from the performance of military duty in 
the armies of the Confederate States, from and after the passage 
of this act, during the time they are such contractors : provided, 
that no more than one contractor shall be exempt on any one 
route, and that no moie than one member of any firm of contrac- 
tors shall be exempt, and no contractor on any route of less than 
ten miles in length, and on which the mail is carried on horse, 
shall be exempt under this act; and if any one or more members 
of any such firm be exempt, from age or other cause, from the 
performance of military duty, the other member or members of 
such firm shall not be exempt by this act on account of being 
mail contractors: and provided further, that no person to whom 
a contract for carrying the mails may be transferred, with the 
.consent of the post office department, after the passage of this 
act, shall be exempt from military service on that account. 
“ Sec. 2. That the drivers of post coaches and hacks for carry- 
ing the mails, on all routes where the weight of the mails re- 
quires that they should be carried in coaches or hacks, shall be 
exempt from military service in the armies of the Confederate 
| States, from and after the passage of this act, so long as tbfey 
; continue to be employed as such drivers: provided the contractor 
by whom any such driver is employed shall take and subscribe 
an oath, to be furnished to the enrolling officer, that the weight 46 
of the mails on his route requires the use of coaches or hacks for 
their conveyance, and that he has not a greater number of dri- 
vers employed in his service than are indispensable to enable him 
to fulfil his contract for carrying the mails ; and that he will not, 
while a contractor, employ a greater number of drivers than may 
be indispensably necessary for that purpose; and that he will 
give notice to the enrolling officer when any such driver ceases 
to be in his employment.” [Approved April 14, 1863.] 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
' No. 45. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office’ 
Richmond, April 18, 1863. 
I. The issue of whiskey to troops, except in cases of extraordi- 
nary fatigue and exposure, is prohibited. Commanding officers 
are enjoined to see that this prohibition is enforced. 
II. Paragraph IV, General Orders, No. 32, April 30th, 1862, 
is so modified as to allow only a two horse wagon and team to 
each regiment in the field, to be appropriated to the transporta- 
tion of hospital supplies. 
. By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 46. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, April 20, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Martial, held in the city of Richmond, 
Va., April 5, 1863, pursuant to General Orders, No. 35, Head 
Quarters Department of Henrico, 1862, and of which Col. Jametf 
L. Hendeison is president, was arraigned and tried: 
Major Elias Griswold, P. A. C S., on the following Charges 
and Specifications: 
Charge Is/, ... Disobedience of lawful orders. 
Specification—In this, that the said Major Elias Griswold, on 
or about the 2d day of January 1863, at Richmond, Va., did give a written permit to one James E. Lipscomb, to bring into the said 
city of Richmond ninety-one barrels of brandy, in violation qf 
the lawful command of his superior officer, Brig. Gen. Jno. II. 
Winder. 
Charge 2d, - Conduct to the prejudice of good 
order and military discipline. 
Specification—In this, that the said Major Elias Griswold, on 
or about the 2d day of January, 1863, at Richmond, Ya., did give 
a written permit to one James E. Lipscomb, to bring into the 
said city of Richmond ninety-one barrels of brandy, after the 
publication - of General Orders, No. 41, issued from the Head 
Quarters of the Department of Henrico, requiring that all appli- 
cations for permits to bring intoxicating liquors into Richmond, 
should bo addressed to said Head Quarters. 
Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
The Court having maturely considered the evidence adduced, 
find the accused as follows : 
Of the Specification of 1st Charge, .... Guilty. 
Of the 1st Charge, Guilty. 
Of the Specification of 2d Charge, .... Guilty. 
Of the 2d Charge, Guilty. 
' And the Court do therefore sentence the said Major Elias Gris- 
wold to be privately reprimanded by the Commander of the De- 
partment of Henrico. 
The Court is thus lenient in its sentence, because it is satisfied, 
that although there was a technical violation of orders by the 
accused, it arose from inadvertence, and was not accompanied 
with any evil intent or improper purpose. 
II. The proceedings, finding and sentence in the foregoing 
case having been submitted to the Secretary of War, and by him 
duly considered, are approved. Major Griswold will therefore be 
released from arrest and restored to duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 47. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, April 21, 1863. 
The following Regulations respecting the rights of “ Partizan 48 
Rangers,” under the Act of April 21st, 1862, are published fof 
the information of all concerned : 
I. The Act of April 21st, 1862, provides, that for any arms 
and munitions of war captured from the enemy by Partizan Ran- 
gers, and delivered up at such place as may be designated by the 
Commanding General, the Rangers shall be paid their full value 
in such manner as the Secretary of War may prescribe. 
2. The terms “ arms and munitions of war” will include all 
small arms and artillery, ammunition, infantry accoutrements 
and cavalry equipments, and also cavalry and artillery horses. 
The animals referred to will be appraised by competent officers, 
under the orders of the Commanding General, and will be paid 
for when delivered up, by any quartermaster, who will take re- 
ceipts from the parties entitled to receive compensation, and 
afterwards account for the property, as in the case of an ordinary 
purchase. The rest of the property specified will be paid for in 
accordance with paragraph II, General Orders, No. 20, current 
series. 
By order, 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office* 
Richmond, April 22, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 48. 
I. The following Act of Congress having been duly approved 
by the President, is published for the information of all con- 
cerned : 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
That any officer, non-commissioned officer or private now in the 
military service of the Confederate States, who has been elected 
or appointed since entering said service, or who may hereafter be 
elected or appointed a Senator or Representative in Congress, or 
in any State Legislature, or Judge of the Circuit, District or Su- 
perior Courts of Law or Equity in any State of the Confederacy, 
District Attorney, Clerk of any Court of Record, Sheriff, Ordi- 
nary, Judge of any Court of Probate, Collector of State Taxes 
(not to exceed one for each county) or Parish Recorder, upon 
furnishing the Secretary of War with evidence of such election 
or appointment, if an officer, his resignation shall be promptly 
accepted ■ and if a non-commissioned officer or private, he snail 49 
be honorably discharged by the Secretary of War.” [Approved 
April 2d, 1863.1 
II. The evidence required as to the election referred to, will be 
a certificate of the fact from the clerk of the county or parish or 
other officer, whose duty it may be to certify to such elections, 
under the laws of the State, in manner and form required by 
said laws. This certificate must accompany the resignation, 
through the usual channel of communication, as prescribed in 
General Orders, No. 3, and the Army Regulations. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 49. 
Adj't and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, April 23, 1863. 
I. The following regulation is made, and will hereafter be ob- 
served in the army, relative to the clothing of dece lsed soldiers: 
Upon the death of any soldier, the surgeon in charge of the 
hospital at which it occurs, will cause an inventory to be made of 
all his military clothing, and will make a fair appraisement of 
each article thereof. It will then be turned over to the nearest 
quartermaster for re-issue. The original appraisement shall be 
forwarded to the second auditor, to secure its value to the per- 
sonal representatives of the deceased soldier, and a copy thereof 
be furnished to the receiving quartermaster, who wifi issue the 
clothing at the appraised prices, and not at those set forth in 
General Orders, No. 100, last series. * 
* Amended by General Orders, No. 93 
II. Engineer officers, while employed on reconnoissances, sur- 
veys or other duty, under special orders causing temporary ab- 
sence from their posts or from the head quarters of the armies, 
corps, divisions or brigades w\th which they may be serving, 
shall be allowed their personal expenses, to be paid out of the 
appropriation for engineer service, in lieu of all allowances for 
fuel, quarters and forage for the same period. Each account 
must be certified to by the party receiving the payment, and ap- 
proved by the officer under whose orders he acts. 
III. All supplies of contractors engaged exclusively in iron or 
munitions of war for the government, are exempted from im- 
pressment, either at the establishment or at the place of pur- chase. Satisfactory evidence by affidavit or otherwise may be re- 
quired to establish ownership. 
By order. 
S. COPPER. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 50. 
•Adj’t and Insf’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, April 25, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Martial, convened at Grenada, Missis- 
sippi, by virtue < f bpeeial Orders of January 3, 1863, from Head 
Quarters Army of the Mississippi, was arraigned and tried: 
Lieut. J. W. Gibson, Co. D, 22d Regiment Miss. Volunteers, 
*n the following Charges. (The specifications are omitted in this 
order:) 
Charge —Violation of the 83d Article of War. 
Charge 2d—Violation of the 7th Article of War. 
Charge 3d—Violation of the 45th Article of War. 
II. Finding atid Sentence of the Court. 
The Court having maturely considered the evidence adduced, 
find the accused, Lieut. J. W. Gibson, Co. D, 22d Regiment Miss. 
Volunteers, as follows : 
Of the Specification of 1st Charge, - - Guilty* 
Of the 1st Charge, - - - - Guilty* 
Of the Specification of 2d Charge, * - Not Guilty* 
Of the 2d Charge, .... Not guilty. 
Of the Specification of 3d Charge, - - Not Guilty* 
Of the 3d Charge, .... Not Guilty. 
And do therefore sentence him to be dismissed the service. 
III. The proceedings in the foregoing case having been laid 
before the Secretary of War, to be submitted to the Presiden , 
the following decision has been pronounced thereon: 
The finding and sentence are approved ; but in consideration 
of the recommendation of the Court, and the good behavior of 
Lieut. Gibson while a soldier in the ranks, the penalty of dismis- 
sal from the service is remitted, and he will be publicly repri- 
manded. 
By order, 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 51. 
Adj.’t and Inbp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, April 20, 1863. 
To simplify the manner of effecting discharges and furloughs, 
the following orders, condensed from those heretofore issued, are 
published for the government of the-army : 
I. When a soldier, present with his regiment or company, shall 
be unfit for military service in consequence of wounds, disease or 
infirmity, his captain shall forward to the commander of the de- 
partment or of the army in the field, through the regimental, bri- 
gade and other commanders, a statement of the case, with “ cer- 
tificates of disability,” that he is totally unfit for service, signed 
by the surgeon of the battalion or regiment, according to the form 
prescribed in the Medical Regulations. It the recommendation 
for the discharge of the invalid be approved by the department or 
army commander, he will endorse the order for the discharge, 
upon the “certificate of disability which will be sent back, to 
be signed by the commanding officer of the regiment or battalion, 
to which the invalid soldier’s company belongs, and afterwards 
forwarded by the Captain to the Adjutant and Inspector Gene- 
ral. The “ discharge ” will be signed by the regimental or bat- 
talion commander, and “ final statements,” by the company com- 
mander. * 
If. When the soldier, present with his command, is certified to 
be laboring under temporary disability, which requires his re- 
moval or a change of climate, the commander of the department 
or of the army in the field may grant a furlough of thirty days ; 
which, in extreme cases, may be extended by him to sixty days. 
ITT. When a soldier is absent from his company, battalion or 
regiment, in hospital, and is unfit for militai-y service, for reasons 
set forth in paragraph I of these Orders, the commandant of the 
post, upon the recommendation of an examining board, to con- 
sist of two or more medical officers, established by the command- 
ant of the post (or if there be nu such board, the senior surgeon 
of the hospital), may gr.int him a furlough for thirty days, sub- 
ject to extension by the commander of the department or army 
in the field, when he will make out “certificates of disability,” 
and send them to the commander of the company, to be forward- 
ed by him, as prescribed in the preceding paragraph. But when 
acce.-s to commanders is difficult, and attended with great delay, 
and the case is urgent, the certificates of disability may be tor- 
warded by the surgeon directly to the Surgeon General, for bis 
* Amended by Par. V, General Orders, No, 141. 52 
approval; which being given, the discharge will be authorized 
from the Adjutant and Inspector General’s office; and the sur- 
geon will make out “final statements.” * 
IV. When a soldier, absent from his command, certified by the 
surgeon or assistant surgeon of the army to be unfit for present 
duty, and that his health requires his removal or change of cli- 
mate, the commander of the post, if access to the commander of 
the department or of the army in the field be difficult, may grant 
the soldier a furlough, not to exceed thirty days, and submit the 
application for a longer period, if necessary, to the General to 
whose command the soldier may belong; or, without granting 
the furlough, he may refer it to the discretion of such Com- 
manding General. * 
V. In every case where a soldier has been discharged under 
paragraph-III, by orders from the Adjutant and Inspector Gene- 
ral’s office, and the “descriptive list” and “final statements” 
cannot be had, he will be mustered for payment upon hospital 
•rolls by the surgeon in charge, upon his affidavit, taken before 
one or more witnesses, that he has not received pay for the pe- 
riod for which he claims it to be due, and that he is not indebted 
to the Confederate States government beyond the amount stated 
by him. * 
VI. Due notices of all furloughs and discharges granted under 
these Orders, will be forwarded, through department and army 
commanders, to the Adjutant and Inspector General, and to the 
immediate commander of the company to which the soldier be- 
longs. 
VII. All Orders heretofore issued relating to furloughs and 
discharges for the causes aforesaid, are hereby revoked. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
% 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, April 30, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 52. 
I. At tho Military Court appointed under act of Congress, ap- 
proved October 9th, 1862, for the Army Corps of Major General 
Samuel Jones, and held at Newbern, Pulaski county, Va-, was 
arraigned and tried: 
* Revoked by Par. IX, General Orders, No. 169. Private Granvilee S. McCptceen, Co. C, 22d Va. Volunteers, 
on the following Charge and Specification : 
Charge, Violation of the 20th Article of War. 
Specification—That the said private Granville S. McCutchen, 
Company C, 22d Va. Volunteers, on or about the 7th day of May, 
1862, on the march from White Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier 
to Jackson’s river depqt, in Alleghany county, Va., did desert 
his company and regiment, and remained absent therefrom until 
about the 8th day of January next ensuing, when he was arrest- 
ed and brought back to his company and regiment. 
II. Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
Having mutually weighed and considered the evidence ad- 
duced, the Court find the accused as follows: 
Of the Specification of the Charge, - - Guilty. 
Of the Charge, - - - - - Guilty. 
And do therefore sentence him to be shot to death by musket- 
ry, at such time and place as the Commanding General may ap- 
point. 
III. The proceedings, findings and sentence in the foregoing 
.case having been laid before the Secretary of War, for the decis- 
ion of the President, the following orders are made thereon : 
To justify a general charge of violation of an Article of War, 
some offence must be defined and prohibited, or some duty pre- 
scribed in the Article. But the 20th Article of War merely de- 
nounces the punishment to he inflicted for desertion; and a charge 
of its violation is obviously too indefinite and uncertain to justi- 
fy action. The defect is fatal, and vitiates the whole proceed- 
ings, which are therefore set aside. 
Private McCutchen will be released from confinement, and re- 
turned to duty. It is hoped that his accidental escape from pun- 
ishment will have a good effect, and induce him hereafter to con- 
duct himself as becomes a soldier in the defence of his country. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 53- 
AdPt and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, May 1, 18G3. 
The following Act of Congress, approved b.y the President, is 
published for the information and direction of all concerned, in connection with tho Act relating to impressments, heretofore an* 
nounced'in General Orders, No. 37, from the Adjuta it and In- 
spector General's Office, April 6th, 1863, and as supplementary 
to said Act: 
An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to Regulate Impressments 
by Officers of the Army. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
That in all cases of appraisement provided for in said Act, the 
officer impressing the property shall, if he believe the appraise- 
ment to be fair and just, endorse upon it his approval; if not, he 
shall endorse upon it his reasons for refusing, and deliver the 
same, with a receipt for the property impressed, to the owner, 
his agent or attorney, and as soon as practicable, forward a copy 
of the receipt and appraisement, and his endorsement thereon, 
to the board of appraisers appointed by the President and Gov- 
ernor of the State, who shall revise the same, and make final 
valuation, so as to give just compensation for the property taken ; 
which valuation shall be paid by the proper department for use 
of which the property was taken, on the certificate of the ap- 
praisers, as provided in the act of which this is amendatory.” 
[Approved, April 27th, 1863.J 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 54. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, May 2, 1863. 
I. At ft General Court Martial, convened at Shelbyville, Ten- 
nessee. by virtue of Special Orders, No. 54, of March 1, 18G3, 
Head Quarters Army of Tennessee, was arraigned and tried: 
Assistant Surgeon Edward Cross, Fist Regiment Ark. Volun- 
teers, on the following Charge and Specification: 
Charge, .... Absent without leave. 
Sped peat ion—In this, that the said Assistant Surgeon Edward 
Cross, 31st Ark. Regiment, did leave his command, without pro- 
per anti < ,-ity, on or about, the 1st February. 1863, and remain 
absent until’ the 26th « : February, 1863. • Ail this at or near 
Sheibytille, Tennessee, in and between the 1st February and the 
both February, 1863. 11. Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
The Court having affirmed the plea of “ guilty ” to the Charge 
and Specification by the accused, do sentence him to be dis- 
missed from the service of the Confederate States. 
III. The proceedings, findings and sentence in the foregoing 
case having been submitted to the Secretary of War, for the de- 
cision of the President, are *by him approved ; but in considera- 
tion of the previous good conduct and efficient services of Assis- 
tant Surgeon Cross, the sentence against him is commuted to for- 
feiture of all pay during the period of his absence from his post 
of service; and he will accordingly be released from arrest, and 
returned to duty. 
By order. 
, S. COOPER. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 55. 
Adj’t and Insp’k Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, May 5, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Martial, convened by virtue of General 
Orders, No. 128, of November 25th, 1862, from Head Quarters 
Earley’s Brigade, was arraigned and tried : 
Captain John W. Bell, Quartermaster 49th Regiment Va. 
Volunteers, on the following charges. (The Specifications, on 
account of their number and length; are omitted in this order :) 
Charge 1st, . . Absence without leave. 
Charge 2d, . . Conduct to the prejudice of good 
order and military discipline. 
Charge 2>d, . , Conduct unbecoming an officer 
and gentleman. 
II, Finding* and Sentence of the Court. 
The Court having maturely considered the evidence adduced, 
find the accused, Captain John W. Bell, 49th Regiment Va. Vol- 
unteers, as follows : 
Of 1st Specification of 1st Charge, . . . Guilty. 
Of 2d Specification, , That he was absent without leavo 
at the time specified, but that he 
was physically unable to follow 
bis regiment on its march* and 
therefore without guilt. Of the 1st Charge, ..... Guilty. 
Of the Specification of 2d Charge, . . . Guilty. 
"Of the 2d Charge, . . . . Guilty. 
Of the Specification of 3d Charge, . . . Guilty, 
to the extent of addressing a letter to the Qurtermaster 
General C. S. A., couched in words and figures, set forth 
in the Specification, and not guilty of the residue. 
Of the 3d Charge, . . • . . Not Guilty. 
Of the Specification of 4th Charge, . . . Guilty. 
Of the 4th Charge, ..... Guilty. 
And the Court do therefore sentence the said Captain J. W. 
Bell, Quartermaster 49th Regiment Va. Volunteers, t,o be 
cashiered. 
III. The proceedings in this case having been submitted to the 
Secretary of War, for the orders of the President, the following 
decision has been made thereon : 
“Upon consideration of the testimony to the character of 
Captain Bell, as an efficient and capable officer, of his zeal in 
the service, and also the recommendation of the Court, the de- 
partment, though entirely concurring with the Commanding 
General in his estimate of the gravity of the offence committed, 
has determined to remit the sentence of the Court Martial in his 
case. He will therefore be released from arrest, and return to 
duty.” 
By order. 
. S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS,' 
No. 56. 
Adj’t and lNsr’R Gen’i/s Office, 
Richmond, May 7, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Martial, convened at Camp of Pender’s 
Brigade, by virtue of General Orders, No. 23, February 19th, 
1863, from the Head Quarters Department of Northern Virginia, 
was arraigned and tried : 
Second Lieutenant J. K. Martin, 22d N. C. Volunteers, on the 
following Charges—(The Specifications are omitted in this order:) 
Charge 1st, . . Violation of the 45th Article of War. 
Charge 2d, . . Violation of the 83d Article of War. II. Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
The Court having maturely considered the evidence adduced, 
find the accused, Second Lieut. J. K. Martin, 22d N. C. Volun- 
teers, as follows: 
Of the Specification of 1st Charge, . ' . Not Guilty. 
Of the 1st Charge, .... Not Guilty. 
Of the Specification of 2d Charge, . . Guilty. 
Of the 2d Charge, .... Guilty. 
And sentence him to be dismissed the service. 
III. The proceedings, findings and sentence in the foregoing 
case having been laid before the Secretary of War, for the decision 
of the President, are approved; but upon the recommendation of 
the Court, the sentence is remitted. Lieutenant Martin will 
therefore be relieved from arrest, and restored to duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 57. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office. 
Richmond, May 8,1863. 
The”operation of paragraph IY, General Orders, No. 28, March 
12th, 1863, from the Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, is 
so far modified for the present as to allow payment of officers in 
hospitals, without the certificate of last payment, as required in 
said Orders, No. 28; but the Quartermaster making such pay- 
ment will furnish certificates as heretofore required of him. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 58. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, May 11, 1863. 
I. The following Notice, relative to Exchanged Prisoners, is 
published for the information of all concerned: Exchange Notice, No. 5. 
Richmond, May 9, 1863. 
The following Confederate officers and men have been duly 
exchanged, and are hereby so declared : 
1. All officers and men who have been delivered at City Point 
at any time previous to May 6th, 1863. 
2. All officers captured at any place before the 1st of April, 
1863, who have been released on parole. 
3. All men captured in North Carolina or Virginia before the 
1st of March, 1863, who have been released on parole. 
4. The officers and men captured and paroled by Gen. S. P. 
Carter, in his expedition to East Tennessee in December last. 
5. The officers and men captured and paroled by Lieut. Col. 
Stewart at Van Buren, Arkansas, January 25th, 1363 ; by Col. 
Dickey, in December, 1862, in his march to the Mobile and Ohio 
rail road, and by Capt. Cameron, at Corinth, Mississippi in De- 
cember, 1862. 
6. The officers and men paroled at Oxford, Miss., on the 23d 
of December, 1862; at Des Arc, Arkansas, on the 17th of Janu- 
ary 1863, and at Baton Rouge, La., on the 23d Februar)*-, 1863, 
7. All persons who have been captured on the sea or the waters 
leading to the same, or upon the sea coast of the Confederate or 
United States, at any time previous to December 10th, 1862. 
8. All civilians who have been arrested at any time before the 
6th of May, 1863, and released on parol, are discharged from any 
and every obligation contained in said parol. If any such person 
has taken any oath of allegiance to the United States, or'given 
any bond, or if his release was accompanied with any other 
condition, he is discharged from the same. 
9. If any persons embraced in any of the foregoing setions, or 
in any section of any previous Exchange Notice, wherein they 
are declared exchanged, are in any Federal prison, they are to be 
immediately released and delivered to the Confederate authorities. 
Robert Oulb, 
Agent of llxcliange. 
II. All persons, whether citizens or soldiers, are expressly pro- 
hibited from using or in any manner interfering with fuel or 
wood cut and delivered for the use of rail roades, and rail road 
companies. It isof the first importance that this order should 
he observed, and it will be'strictly obeyed and enforced by the 
army. 
By order. 
S. COOPEE, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 59 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 59. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen Vs Office, 
Richmond, May 12, 1863. 
I, The attention of regimental commanders throughout the 
army is called to the requirements of paragraph I, General 
Orders, No. 69, of 1862, which makes it the duty of adjutants to 
enquire into and report to this office all cases of slaves serving 
with their respective regiments, without written authority from 
Iheir masters. It is specially required of all regimental com- 
jianders to enforce a duo observance of said order, which is 
hereby extended to include commanders of posts and senior sur- 
geons of hospitals, who will make similar reports, so far as they 
•elate to their respective commands, to those required from adju- 
ncts of regiments. 
II. It will be the duty of a surgeon in charge of a hospital, 
:o make a separate Provision Return for all the persons attached 
;o the hospital who may be entitled to rations, except the sick and 
rounded soldiers, and the issuing commissary will issue to said 
cersons the same rations that are issued to soldiers in the field. 
These rations will not be commuted, if the commissary can issue 
-n kind. If he cannot issue in kind, the ration may be commuted, 
it sixty cents per ration, on the certificate of the surgeon as to 
he dates and facts. 
Separate and distinct Provision Returns will be made for the 
sick and wounded soldiers in the hospital, according to the form 
hereunto annexed, marked A. No portion of the subsistence 
stores drawn for the sick and wounded will be otherwise appro- 
priated. 
The attention of the medical directors and inspectors is par- 
ticularly directed to this prohibition. 
III. So much of paragraph V, General Orders, No. 24, of 
1862. as requires ordnance sergeants to make returns of surplus 
stores with regiments to the ordnance bureau, is revoked. All 
the returns required by the Regulations, of ordnance stores in 
the possession of regiments or battalions, other than artillery, 
will be made by commanding officers of the same. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 60 
Morning Report. 
Calls for 
Men. 
Days. 
Rations. 
Over or under issued on last return, 
Rations. 
Entitled to 
Rations. 
Commuted. 
Drawn. 
Rations op 
1 
1 
Fresh beef. 
Bacon. 
Flour. 
Meal. 
Rice. 
Beans. 
Fruit. 
Potatoes. 
Coffee. 
Sugar. 
1 
Vinegar. 
Candles. 
| Soap. 
| Salt. 
| Molasses. 
1 1 1 
1 1 1 
Provision Return for Hospital, , for days, commencing , 186 , and ending , 1S6 
A. 61 
Days. 
Entitled to 
Rations. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
io 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
25 
26 
27 
28 
29 
30 
31 
Total entitled to rations, 
No. of rations Morning Report called 
for on last return, . 
Rations issued ®n Special Requisition, 
Total number of rations issued, 
Due the Government, ' • 
I certify that the above is a true report of all entitled to rations in Hospital, , on the days named, 
copied from the Morning Reports. 1 Surgeon in charge. 
The A. C. S. will issue on the above return. > 62 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 60. 
Adj’#and Insp’r Gen Vs Office, 
Richmond, May 13, 1863. 
I. The exigencies of the service requiring a large number of 
artillery horses, all public horses suitable for that service, em- 
ployed in transportation or otherwise with arms in the field, will 
be turned over to the Chief Quartermasters of said armies, and 
will supply their places where necessary with mules., The Chief 
Quartermasters of armies are charged with the prompt execution 
of this order, under the direction of the Commanding Generals. 
II. At posts or depots other than those immediately belonging 
to armies in the field, all public horses suited for artillery will 
be collected under the orders of Major A. II. Cole, Inspector Gen- 
eral Field Transportation, for the purpose named above, and 
mules substituted where necessary. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 61. 
Auj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, May 15, 1863. 
I. Farmers upon whose premiles horses and mules have been 
or may hereafter be left by the enemy, are admonished to pursue 
the requirements of the laws of their respective states respecting 
estrays, so far as to have the same properly valued, and the valu- 
tion thereof duly recorded; and where it is not apparent that 
such property was the property of the United States government, 
to have advertisement thereof made as required by law. 
II. Upon compliance with the above admonition, the govern- 
ment will not assert any adverse claim to such horses and mules, 
unless they shall exceed in value the property whereof the citi- 
zens having possession may have been despoiled by the enemy, 
and then only to the extent of such excess in value. 
III. All officers of the army will respect the rights of citizens, 
as defined and conceded in the foregoing sections. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 63 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 62. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Genl’s Office, 
Richmond, May 16, 1863. 
I. In accordance with an act to amend an act entitled an act to 
better provide for the sick and wounded of the army in hospitals, 
approved May 1st, 1863, the following modifications in General 
Orders, No. 95, last series, from this office, are published : 
The commuted value of rations for sick and disabled soldiers 
in hospitals (field or general), will, until further orders, be one 
dollar and twenty-five cents. 
II. Hospital laundresses will be paid twenty-five dollars per 
month, and allowed rations and quarters. 
/ By order. 
S. COOPER. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 63. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, May 18, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Mart'ml, convened by General Orders, 
No. 133, of November 7th, 1862, from Head Quarters Department 
of Northern Virginia, was arraigned and tried : 
First Lieutenant Robert W. Saunders, 8th Ala. Volunteers, on 
the following Charges—(The Specifications are omitted) : 
Charge 1st, Cowardice. 
Charge 2d, Drunkenness. 
IT. Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
After due deliberation, the Court find the accused, Lieut, Ro- 
bert \Y. Saunders, 8th Ala. Regiment, as follows: 
Specification 1st, Charge 1st, .... Not Guilty* 
Specification 2d, Charge 2d, - - - Not Guilty* 
Of the 1st Charge, Not Guilty* 
Of the Specification of 2d Charge, - - - Guilty, 
except the words “ without provocation.” 
Of the 2d Charge, Guilty. 
And the Court do, therefore, sentence him to bo cashiered. 
III. The proceedings, finding and sentence in the foregoing 64 
case have submitted to the Secretary of War, to be laid be- 
fore the President, and the following orders on the case are now 
made: 
Proceeding, finding and sentence approved ; but it appearing 
that the members of the Court recommend a pardon; that the 
regimental and other officers of Lieut. Saunders concur in the 
recommendation; and that material witnesses on the trial against 
him have become infamous by desertion—and in one case by 
desertion to the enemy—the sentence-is remitted, and Lieut. San- 
ders will be restored to duty with his company. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS,' 
No. 64. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, May 19, 1863. 
I. At a Court of Enquiry, convened at Richmond, Virginia, by 
virtue of Special Orders, No. 102, of April 27tli, 1863, from the 
Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, “ to examine and enquire 
into certain allegations set forth on papers to be laid before the 
Court, against Col. Robert II. Cmlton, Assistant Adjutant Gen- 
eral C. S. Army, which allegations he conceives impugn his 
character as an officer,” and also to “report the facts of the case, 
and their opinion thereon,” the following report of facts was 
made ; and having been submitted by the Court, with their opin- 
ion thereon, as required, the same are approved by the Secretary 
of War, and are now published for the information of all con- 
cerned : 
II. Finding and Opinion of the Court. 
On a careful examination of the testimony adduced in this case, 
the Court find the following facts: 
1st. That on the 11th July 1862, Col. R. H. Chilton, then on 
the staff of General Lee, commanding the Army of Northern 
Virginia, as Adjutant and Inspector General, did write a letter to 
General Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General of the Army, 
impeaching the professional ability of Maj. Gen. Magruder, de- 
nying his fitness for responsible command, and urging a revocation 
of the order assigning him to the Trans-Mississippi Department. 
2d. That Col. Chilton incorporated in that letter an offer to 
make good his allegations before a Court of Enquiry. 3d. That the letter was communicated to the President by 
General Cooper. 
4th. That being apprised of this disposition of the letter, Col. 
Chilton immediately furnished Maj. Gen. Magruder a copy of so 
much of it as contained his (Col. Chilton’s) strictures on Maj. 
Gen. Magruder’s official conduct and capacity. 
Opinion. 
The Court is of opinion, that in his communication to General 
Cooper, dated July 11th, 1862, Col. Chilton was actuated by no 
unworthy motive, but by a laudable regard for the public inter- 
est, and that his conduct in the transaction was such as became 
an honorable and patriotic officer. 
III. The Court of Enquiry in the case of Col. R. H. Chilton, C. 
S. Army, is hereby dissolved. 
By order. 
• S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
May 21, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 65. 
I. The following schedules of prices for articles named there- 
in, adopted by commissioneis appointed pursuant to law, for the 
States of Virginia and Georgia, respectively, are announced for 
the information of all concerned; and the special attention of of- 
ficers and agents of the government is directed thereto : 
\Copyj\—Schedule A. 
II.—VIRGINIA. 
lion. Jas. A. Seddon, Sec'y of War. 
Sir—The Commissioners appointed under section 5th, of the 
bill recently passed by the Confederate Congress, regulating im- 
pressments, constitute a Board, whose duty it shall be to fix upon 
the prices to be paid by the government for all property impress- 
ed or taken for the public use aforesaid, so as to afford just com- 
pensation to the owners thereof. Said commissioners shall agree 
upon and publish a schedule of prices every two months, or of- 
tener, if they shall deem it proper. 
In accordance with the foregoing requisition, we respectfully 
lay before you the following schedule of prices for the ensuing 
Richmond, May 18, 1863. two months. Owing to the difficulty of obtaining satisfactory 
information as to pork, beef and materials of clothing, &c., we 
have postponed their appraisement till our next assessment. It 
is proper to add that Mr. W. B. Harrison was invited to act as 
third commissioner, and that this appraisement received the 
unanimous approval of the commissioners. 
The following are the maximum prices to be paid for the arti- 
cles appraised, at all cities and usual places of sale, and when 
impressed elsewhere, the same prices are to be paid elsewhere, 
less the cost of transportation to the city or usual place of sale to 
which the article would go ordinarily for sale from that neigh- 
borhood, or less the cost of transportation to the point at which 
the government needs the article, and wishes it to be sent: Pro- 
vided, that in no case the amount deducted -for transportation as 
above shall exceed 25 cents per bushel for grain, and 25 cents per 
cwt. for long forage, flour, bacon, iron, &e. In addition to the 
established price of transportation, the government to pay all 
legal tolls, and, where farmers cannot procure nails for baling 
forage, government to furnish the same at cost, which will be de- 
ducted from the established price of baling: 
ARTICLE. 
QUALITY 
■■ -■ , . 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
1 Wheat, 
Prime, 
White, 
Pr bush of 60 lbs. 
$ 4 50 
2 Flour, 
Good, 
Superfine, 
Pr barrel of 190 lbs. 
22 50 
3 Corn, 
Prime. 
W hite, 
Pr bush of 56 lbs. 
4 00 
4 Unshelled corn, 
“ 
“ 
“ “ 56 lbs. 
3 95 
ft Corn meal, 
Good, 
“ • “ 50 lbs. 
4 20 
6 Rye, 
Prime, 
“ “ 56 lbs. 
3 20 
7 Cleaned oats, 
a 
“ “ 32 lbs. 
2 00 
8 Wheat brarj) 
Good, 
“ “ 17 lbs. 
50 
9 Shorts, 
11 
“ “ 22 lbs. 
70 
10 Brown stuff', 
U 
“ “ 28 lbs. 
90 
11 Ship stuff", 
ct 
“ “ 37 lbs. 
1 40 
12 Bacon, 
u 
Hog round, 
Per pound, 
1 00 
13 Salt pork, 
<< 
U 
1 00 
14 Lard, 
v( 
1 00 
15 Horses, 
1st cl’s 
Artillery, &c. 
Av’ge price pr head 
350 00 
16 Wool, 
Fair, 
Washed, 
Per pound, 
3 00 
17 Peas, 
Good, 
Per busli of 60 lbs. 
4 00 
18 Beans, 
(< 
u a (< 
' 4 00 
19 Potatoes, 
<< 
Irish, 
(( 
4 00 
20 Potatoes, 
U 
Sweet, 
a 
5 00 
21 Onions, 
U 
(( 
5 00 
22 Dried peaches, 
• ( 
Pealed, 
“ of 3S lbs. 
8 00 
23 Dried peackes. 
a 
Unpealed, 
“ of 38 lbs. 
4 50 ARTICLE. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
24 Dried apples, 
Good, 
Pealed, 
Per bush of 28 lbs. 
$ 3 00 
25 Hay, baled, 
U 
Timothy or 
clover, 
Per 100 pounds, 
4 00 
26 Hay, baled, 
u 
Orchard or 
herd grass, 
tt tc 
4 00 
27 Hay, unbaled, 
is 
Orchard or 
* 
herd grass, 
cc c; 
3 70 
28 Sh’f oats, baled, 
(i 
IS * It 
4 00 
29 Sh’f oats, unb’d. 
tc 
“ 
3 70 
30 Blade fodder, 
baled, 
ct 
II II 
4 00 
31 Blade fodder, 
un baled, 
tc 
II II 
3 70 
32 Shucks, baled, 
“ 
tt tt 
2 50 
33 Shucks, unb’d, 
“ 
tt It 
2 20 
34 Wheat straw, 
baled, 
tc a 
1 30 
35 Wheat straw, 
unbaled, 
<i 
1 00 
36 Pasturage, 
tc 
Interior, 
Per head pr month, 
3 00 
37 Pasturage, 
ct 
Near cities, 
tt a . 
6 00 
38 Salt, 
tt 
Per bush of 50 lbs. 
5 00 
39 Soap, 
cc 
Per pound, 
30 
40 Candles, 
tc 
Tallow, 
1 00 
41. Vinegar, 
cc 
Cider, 
Per gallon, 
I 00 
42 Whiskey, 
ct 
Trade, 
ti 
3 00 
43 Sugar, 
a 
Brown, 
Per pound, 
1 00 
44 Molasses, 
a 
New Orleans, 
Per gallon, 
8 00 
45 Riee, 
a 
Per pound, 
J 5 
46 Coffee, 
“ 
Rio, 
u 
3 00 
47 Tea, 
“ 
Trade, 
a 
10 00 
48 Vinegar, 
tt 
Manufact’d, 
Per gallon, 
50 
49 Pig iron, 
t; 
No. 1 quality. 
Per ton, 
125 00 
50 Pig iron, 
“ 
No. 2 
110 00 
5 l Pig iron, 
a 
No.3 “ 
It 
100 00 
52 Bloom iron, 
ct 
(t 
180 00 
53 Smith’s iron, 
“ 
Round, plate 
and bar, 
tt 
380 00 
54 Leather, 
tc 
Harness, IPer pound, 
2 60 
55 Leather, 
ct 
Sole, 
2 40 
56 Leather, 
tc 
Upper, 
u 
2 80 
We respectfully suggest to the Secretary of War, to instruct 
the agents of the government not to impress any article of food 68 
going into cities or towns, or when held therein by retail dealers 
in small quantities for the daily or weekly consumption of the 
inhabitants. 
But this restriction not to apply to such articles held by speeu- 
lators, or those holding them up for higher prices. 
Signed, 
E. W. IIUBARD. 
Robert Gibboney. 
Wm. B. Harrison. 
Schedule B.—Aire of Labor, Teams, Wagons and Drivers. 
1. Baling long forage, . . 
Per 100 lbs. 
PRICE. 
$ 30 
2. Shelling and bagging corn, fur- 
nished by the government, 
“ 56 “ 
05 
3. Hauling, .... 
“ cwt. p. mile, 
06 
4. Hauling grain, . , 
“ bush lt 
03 
5. Hire of two-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
“ day, 
10 00 
6. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government. .... 
te <c 
5 00 
7. Hire of four-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
Cl (( 
13 00 
of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
ii it 
6. 50 
9. Hire of six-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
U it 
16 00 
10. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
it It 
8 00 
11. Hire of laborer, rations furnished by- 
owner, .... 
U it 
2 00 
12. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
U ll 
1 25 
13. Hire of same, rations furnished by 
owner, .... 
“ month, 
40 00 
14. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
20 00 
Signed, 
E. W. IIUBARD, 
Robert Gibboney, 
Wm. B. Harrison. 69 
Schedule No. 1.—Maximum Prices fixed by the Commissioners for the 
State of Georgia, for Produce and Army Supplies delivered at the usual 
Shipping Points on the following named Rail Roads, to continue in force 
until the ] 5th of June, 1863. 
III. GEORGIA. 
Salt, 
Tallo 
Whis 
Bran 
g 2 g> g 
o‘ o eg r J s1 o p- o 
p p p B <1 B 
Whe 
Flou 
Corn 
Corn 
Hogs 
Baco 
Pork 
Lard 
Beef 
it 
Peas 
Bean 
Pota 
Onio 
Peac 
App 
Hay 
)»- 
w 
H 
o- 
K> S* 
- !< 
3 »* & Ji 3 S- 3 
<D Qj O ff . S'* 
j* = re ' g. v( o vi § 
8 p g- 
Ai- - - o - g ~ 
Si 
o 
g 
■ 
Q £lq2 |T) 
f 
'‘o i o "a ”o B’ 
g- o* - Qi p a p 
M 
H 
- 
By gov 
When i 
Peach, 
Apple, 
Baled, 
Unbale 
Baled, 
Unbale 
Baled, 
Unbale 
Brown, 
Old, 
New, 
Irish, 
Sweet, 
Dried p 
Dried u 
Dried, 
Baled, 
Unbale 
White, 
Superfl 
Less co 
Shelled 
Unshel 
Net, 
Gross, 
Sides, 
Hams, 
Shoulde 
Jowls, 
Salt, 
Fresh- 
Salt or 
Dried, 
Gross, 
1 
s 
B „ 
w w Qi 
CU D (t> 
** *0 O 
Sg a a 
s 
<t> 
B ~ p 
5 o 
G PT 
o 
5*5 
O' * 
hS 
►om ha 
►d hsJ hj hj hj >rj >Tj 
,» „ „ ® „ 
„ •"< *1 
H, „ „ „ 
„ T >1 
" ** "oq •* - 
'ff S 
o 
O 
og g 
gip* p* 
c recccgcre 
S' §, o' S' S er ; , & 
£> 
a 
- 
i® bO CO 
o 3 --i 2J oo ® a> 
sr '5="s' 
** g* of S" 
H 
Macon and Western, 
A. & W. P. Augusta 
and Savannah, West- 
*-t to 
Ci tO bO 
to o o to to to —i at 
ern and Atlantic, 
o* 
fcO O O Oi © o 
OOOOiOJ 
© o oo o 
to t-1 Ct to -I O) CO GC GO o C to nr o 
Ol CO © OiClOOOlOOlOOOOCOO 
Rome, Ga., and the 
Georgia Rail Road 
and its branches. 
Muscogee, Central, Sa- 
M to 
vannah, Albany and 
rfi. rfi. 05 to 
M- o O M- M- o O 
Gulf, Southwestern 
Or 
o 
MMCl^OO 
fcO O O Of o o 
OOOOiOi 
©©©© © 
O >-* M^CiCO^CDCDOOO^OlOO 
O to O ODOiOOOlOOiOOOOOOO 
and iti branches. We, the Commissioners appointed in accordance with the pro- 
visions of the Impressment Act for the State of Georgia, after 
mature and careful deliberation, have agreed upon the foregoing 
tariff of prices, which we think fully meets the contemplation of 
the law in fixing a just compensation for the articles mentioned. 
We need not add any thing to the recent patriotic address of 
our most excellent President as to the duty cf producers in this 
crisis. Blind, indeed, must be the judgment, and cold the pa- 
triotism that will not rally to the support of an army whose glo- 
rious triumphs have shed such undying lustre upon our national 
history. Standing as it does a wall of brass between us and our 
malignant foes, shall it feel the pinchings of hunger when our 
granaries are filled to overflowing and our broad fields are waving 
with rich grain nearly ready for the sickle? The government 
demands only your surplus supplies, and for them will pay remu- 
nerative prices. Fortify the hearts of our soldiers then, by show- 
ing that while they illustrate the chivalry of Georgia upon the 
tented field, we at home are ready to dispense with all superflui- 
ties, relinquish all luxuries, and make any sacrifice necessary to 
maintain and perpetuate our honor and our liberties. While we 
may have erred in our judgment as to what is a fair compensa- 
tion for some of the articles in the above schedule of prices, we 
feel that we have stood impartially between the government and 
the producer, and while protecting one have not lost sight of the 
other. We have omitted to annex prices to certain articles, either 
on account of their scarcity, or because the government is fully 
supplied. At the proper time prices will be fixed for all. 
John E. Morgan, 
U. B. Wilkinson, 
0 Commissioners. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 66. 
Adj't and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, May 22, 1863. 
I. The Act of Congress “ to provide and organize engineer 
triops to serve during the war,” approved March 20, 1863, and 
the accompanying rules and regulations for the selection and or- 
ganization of the same, are published for the information and di- 
rection of all concerned : 
“ Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Ameri- 
ca do enact. That there shall be selected, in such manner as the 
Secretary of War may direct, from each division of infantry in service, one company of engineer troops, to consist of one hun- 
dred men, chosen with a view to their mechanical skill and phys- 
ical fitness, and that the men assigned to such company shall be 
required to serve in the same only during the balance of their 
term of service respectively. 
“ Sec. 2. That each company shall consist of eight sergeants* 
seven corporals, forty artificers and forty-five laborers, and that 
two musicians may be added. 
“ Sec. 3. That the commissioned officers of each company 
shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant and two second 
lieutenants, and that the original vacancies in these companies 
shall be filled by‘the transfer of officers of corresponding grade 
from the engineer corps, if practicable, and where not, then from 
the other corps, or from the line or stall’ of the army, reference 
being always had to their qualification as engineers, or by selec- 
tion ; but no one shall be selected who is not now serving in or 
with the army, unless he is a military or civil engineer. 
“Sec. 4. That the companies shall be organized into regi- 
ments of ten companies each, and that the field and staff officers 
shall consist of one colonel, one lieutenaflt colonel, one major, 
one adjutant with the rank of first lieutenant, one quartermaster 
sergeant, and one sergeant major, and that the original vacan- 
cies in the regiment shall be filled in the manner provided for 
filling the same in the companies by the third section of this act, 
and that the sergeant major and the quartermaster sergeant shall 
be selected from the enlisted men of the army. 
“ Sec. 5. That in each regiment two of the companies shall be 
assigned to duty as pontoniers, and each be furnished with a 
bridge train complete. 
“ Sec. 6. That the officer in charge of the engineer bureau, 
subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, shall prescribe 
the number, form and dimensions of the wagons, pontoons, tres- 
tles, tools, implements, arms and other necessaries for all the 
troops organized by this act. 
“ Sec. 7. That vacancies in the established regiments to and 
including the rank of colonel, shall bo filled by promotion regi- 
mentally, according to seniority, except in case of disability or 
other incompetency. 
“ Sec. 8. That the monthly pay of the engirieeb troops shall ba 
as follows: Of a colonel, two hundred and ten dollars ; of a lieu- 
tenant colonel, one hundred and eighty five dollars ; of a major, 
one hundred and sixty-two dollars; of a captain, one hundred 
and forty dollars ; of a first lieutenant, one hundred dollars; of a 
second lieutenant, ninety dollars; and the adjutant shall receive 
ten dollars per month in addition to his pay as lieutenant. 
“ Sec. 9. That the pay of the enlisted men per month shall ba 
as follows; The eergsant major and quartermaster sergeant, each twenty-one dollars; sergeants, thirty-four dollars; corporals, 
twenty dollars ; artificers, seventeen dollars; laborers and musi- 
cians, thirteen dollars. 
*' Sec. 10. That mounted engineer troops may be selected from 
the cavalry, and be organized according to the provisions of this 
act, for engineer troops, as herein before specified/’ 
II. The method of selection and organization under the fore- 
going act, shall be as follows : 
1. The senior engineer officers serving with the Commanding 
General of a department, will be authorized by him to organize 
the engineer companies of the command. 
2. Persons recommended by the Engineer Bureau to be ap- 
pointed as company officers to the respective companies when or- 
ganized, will be directed to report to the senior officer of engi- 
neers in the department, who, aided by them and subject to the 
approval of the Commanding General, shall select from specified 
divisions, in consultation with their commanders, the required 
number of men to forrp the companies. 
3. The selections shall be distributed as equally as practicable 
among all the companies of a division, regard being had to the 
efficiency of the engineer service. Preference shall be given to 
volunteers for this special service, provided they possess the re- 
quisite qualifications. 
4. The non-commissioned officers of each company shall bo se- 
lected, and the privates classified into artificers and laborers, by 
the person selected to organize it, subject to the approval of the 
senior officer of engineer troops, as soon as appointed. 
5. The Chief of the Engineer Bureau, after naming the com- 
panies and designating to which regiment they shall be assigned, 
will recommend to the War Department the appointment of com- 
pany and field officers. 
6. Two of the companies of each regiment shall be selected by 
the senior field officer of engineer troops, subject to the approval 
of the Chief of the Engineer Bureau, as companies of pontoniers, 
but, unless provided with bridge trains, to serve as the other 
companies. 
7. Whenever the number of non-commissioned officers and 
privates falls below sixty in any company, it shall be recruited to 
its maximum number, as herein before specified. 
8. In lieu of the usual return of officers and hired men re- 
quired of engineer officers, returns of officers and enrolled men, 
showing the present, absent and sick, shall be forwarded month- 
ly by the senior field officer of each regiment, to the Chief of the 
Engineer Bureau, who will furnish blank forms for the purpose. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and\ Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 67. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, May 25, 1863. 
I. Officers on ordnance duty, when temporarily absent from 
their posts or positions in the field, under special orders, shall be 
allowed their personal expenses, to be paid'out of the appropria- 
tion for ordnance service, in lieu of all allowances for fuel, quar- 
ters and forage for the same period. Each account must be cer- 
tified to by the party receiving the payment, and approved by 
the officer under whose orders he acts. * 
II. Whenever a cavalryman fails and refuses to keep himself 
provided with a serviceable horse, he may, upon the order of the 
corps commander, be transferred to any company of infantry or 
artillery of the same army, that he may select. In lieu of such 
soldiers, others belonging to the infantry or artillery, who are 
able to furnish horses, and prefer that service, may, in like man- 
ner, be transferred, in equal number, to the cavalry. 
III. Surgeons will turn over money or other effects of deceased 
soldiers (except clothing, which will be disposed of as directed by 
General Orders, No. 49, 1863,) to the quartermaster of the regi- 
ment to which the soldier belonged, if he died in the field, or to 
the quartermaster of the post, if he died in hospital, taking 
therefor receipts in duplicate—one of which will be forwarded 
by him to the commanding officer of the company of which the 
soldier was a member, to be sent by him to the family of the de- 
ceased, and the other to the Second 'Auditor of the Treasury. 
Quartermasters will take up, upon their quarterly returns, money 
thus paid, specifying the amount left by each deceased soldier, 
his name, company and regiment, f 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 68. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’i/s Office, 
Richmond, May 27, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Martial, convened at Knoxville, Tenn . 
February 20, 1863, by virtue of General Orders, No; 16, Head 
Quarters Department of East Tennessee, of December 15, 1862, 
* See also General Orders, No- 133, No. 135, and No. 157. 
t 3&s Par. I, General Orders. No, 1. 1864. 74 
and of which Col. J. J. Finley, 6th Keg’nient Florida Volunteers, 
was President, was tried : 
Captain J. Q. Arnold, 12th Battalion Tennessee Cavalry, on 
the following Charge and Specification : 
Charge, - - Violation of the 9th Article of War. 
Specification—In this, that the said John Q. Arnold did will- 
fully, maliciously and feloniously, and with malice aforethought, 
kill and murder Major T. W. Adrien, his superior officer, by 
shooting him with a pistol loaded with powder and ball, which he 
then and there held in his hand, from which he, the said T. W. 
Adrien, did die. This at Kingston, Tenn., on or about the 16th 
day of November, 1862 : 
To the above Charge and Specification the accused filed a 
special plea to the jurisdiction of the Court, which having been 
overruled by the Court, the plea of not guilty was entered. 
II. Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
The Court having maturely considered the case, do find the ac- 
cused, Capt. J. Q. Arnold, 12th Battalion Tennessee Cavalry, aa 
follows: * 
Of the Specification of the Charge, - - Guilty, 
Of the Charge, - ... Guilty. 
And do therefore (two-thirds of the Court concurring,) sen. 
ence him to be shot to death by musketry. 
III. The proceedings, findings and sentence in the foregoing 
case having been submitted to the President, the following orders 
are by his direction made therein : 
Murder can only be punished under the Articles of War, when 
incident to some other clearly defined offence. It does not of it- 
self constitute a military crime; and the 33d Article of War pro- 
vides, that when capital crimes are committed by persons in the 
military service, they shall be turned over, on demand, to the 
civil authorities. The 9th Article, under which Capt. Arnold 
was tried, requires that the officer against whom violence is of- 
fered, must be “ in the execution of his office.” Hence, to take 
the case out of the 33d Article, which is general in its applica- 
tion, and refer it to the 9th, which is special, the murder or kill- 
ing must be set forth in the specification in such terms as to 
show that the Court has jurisdiction: and this can only be done 
by alleging, in the.words of the Article, that the officer was “in 
the execution of his office ” The omission cannot be supplied by evidence, even where no objection is made; for eonjeat cannot 
confer jurisdiction. In the present case, however, objection was 
made to the jurisdiction of the Court over the particu’ar crime 
alleged, and the point has thus been distinctly presented to the 
department. Nor does the evidence show Major Adrien to have 
been clearly “in the discharge of his office” at the time of the 
killing. On the contrary.it is stated that he was “walking 
across the street.” To be in the execution of his office, the officer 
must he in the actual discharge of some duty. It is resistance 
to authority under such circumstances, that the 9th Article for- 
bids and punishes. Other offences—such as disobedience, disre- 
spect, mutiny—are made punishable by other Articles ; and the 
9th Article seems designed to protect officers in the enforcement 
of discipline, and against resistance while in the execution of 
that duty. The department can only deal with offences when 
they are properly presented through the established forms of the 
service. 
The proceedings, findings and sentence in this ease must beset 
aside, for the reasons stated ; but it is supposed that any respon- 
sibility that the party has incurred to the civil authorities of 
Tennessee, is not affected by this proceeding. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 69. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, May 28, 1863. 
I. In places where there are three or more hospitals, three sur- 
geons in charge of hospitals, or divisions in hospitals, shall con- 
stitute a Board of Examiners for the hospitals to which they be- 
long, whose duty it shall be, twice in each week, to visit said 
hospitals, and examine applicants for furloughs ; and in all cases 
where they shall find an applicant unfit for military duty, either 
from disease or wounds, and likely so to remain for thirty days 
or upwards, they shall, provided his life or convalesence will not, 
in their opinion, be endangered thereby, grant a furlough for 
such time, not to exceed sixty days, as they shall deem he will 
be unfit for duty. 
II. There will be detailed for each board herein constituted, 
from one of the hospitals visited by them, a competent clerk, who 
will issue furloughs, to.be signed bv the senior member of the 
board; which will specify therein the length of furlough, the 
place of residence of the soldier, his company, regiment and bri- gade ; and no further formality shall be required of the soldier, 
and no passport other than his furlough. 
Ill In every case furloughed under the previsions of this or- 
der, a medical certificate, stating the name, company, regiment 
and brigade of the soldier, his place of residence, and the length 
of furlough, with the full particulars of the disease, wound or 
disability, and the period during which he has suffered from its 
effects, with an opinion of the time which will elapse before he 
can resume duty, must be furnished by the Board of Examiners 
to the Surgeon General; and if such furlough has been impro- 
perly granted, the derelict officer will be held responsible before 
a military tribunal. 
IV. The board aforementioned will also examine applicants 
for discharge from the service, in hospitals visited by them, and 
may recommend a discharge when a soldier is deemed perma- 
nently unfit for service in the field or in any department of the 
army, in consequence of w'ounds, disease or infirmity; in which 
case, certificates of disability, signed by the senior member of the 
board, and approved by the General commanding the army or 
department to which the soldier belongs, or by the Surgeon Gen- 
eral, will entitle him to a discharge, to be granted by the com- 
mandant of the post, who will complete and forward the “ certi- 
ficates of disability ” to the Adjutant and Inspector General’s 
office. The surgeon in charge of the hospital will make out 
“ final statements.” The soldier will receive transportation to 
the place of his enlistment or residence. 
V. In places where there are but two hospitals, two surgeons 
in charge of a hospital or division shall constitute a board for 
the purposes aforesaid; and in places where there is but one 
hospital, the surgeon in charge and two assistant surgeons, if 
there be two, and if not, then one, shall constitute a board for the 
purpose aforesaid, and may furlough, and recommend discharges 
as herein prescribed. 
VI. Where a soldier has been discharged under the provisions 
of this order, and his “descriptive list” and “final statements" 
cannot be procured, he will be mustered by the surgeon in charge 
on the hospital rolls, for payment, upon his affidavit, ul en be- 
fore one or more witnesses, that he has not recet e<J pay for the 
period for which he claims it to be due, and that he is not in- 
debted to the Confederate States beyond the amount stated by 
him. 
VII. Notices of all furloughs issued under this ? orders will he 
forwarded weekly by the Board of Examiners, t r d notices of all 
discharges from service, by commandants of jests, to the imme- diate commander of the company to which the soldier belongs, 
and to the Adjutant and Inspector General. 
VIII. The house surgeon in all hospitals shall see each pa 
tient under his charge once every day. 
IX. Paragraph III, IV and V, General Orders, No. 51, current 
series, from this office, pertaining to matters herein regulated, are 
rescinded. 
X. Boards of examiners and post commandants have no power 
to grant an officer leave of absence. They can only recommend 
it, upon the usual surgeon's certificate, for the consideration of 
the commanding officer of the army or department to which the 
officer belongs. * 
By order, 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 70. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office 
Richmond, May 29, 1863. 
I. The following Act of Congress, and Regulations adopted by 
the Department in pursuance thereof, are published for the infor- 
mation of all concerned: 
An Act to abolish Supernumerary Officers in the Commissary and 
Quartermaster’s Departments. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact. 
That the office of regimental commissary be and the same is 
hereby abolished, and the duties heretofore devolved by law upon 
said commissary shall be performed by the regimental quarter- 
master: provided, that said quartermaster shall, if required by 
the Secretary of War, execute a new bond, with such additional 
penalty as he may require. 
“ Sec. 2. That the commanding officer of a regiment or batta- 
lion shall, when the good of the service in his opinion requires 
it, detail a non-commissioned officer or private as commissary 
sergeant, who shall be assigned to the regimental quartermaster 
to perform the duties now performed by commissary sergeants.; 
and the non-commissioned officer or private so detailed shall re- 
ceive, as extra pay, twenty dollars per month. 
“Sec. 3. That the regimental quartermasters acting as com- 
* Amended by Par. TIT, General Orders, No. 96, missavies, shall draw supplies for their respective regiments on 
Provision Returns, Form 14, and not in hulk; and when detach- 
ed from their l rigades, so that it is impracticable to draw sup- 
plies from the brigade commissary, it shall be the duty of the 
nearest brigade or post commissary to supply his regiment on 
Provision Return 14. 
“ Sec. 4. Sales to officers shall be made by the brigade com- 
missaries to which such officers are attached. 
*• Sec. 5 That quartermasters and commissaries, assistant quar- 
termasters and assistant commissaries, "ho become-permanently 
detached fiom divisions, brigades or regiments to which they are 
originally appointed and assigned, respectively, whether by resig- 
nation or otherwise, shall cease to be officers of the army, and 
their names shall be dropped from the rolls of the army, unless 
reassigned by a special order of the Secretary of War. 
“ Sec. 6. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to 
issue the necessary orders for the earliest practicable enforce- 
ment of the provisions of this law; and that he shall communi- 
cate to the chiefs of the subsistence and quartermaster’s bureaux 
the names of the commissaries and assistant commissaries, quar- 
termasters and assistant quartermasters retained and dropped 
from the rolls under this act. 
“ Sec. 7. That all laws and parts of laws contravening the pro- 
visions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.” I Ap- 
proved May 1, 1803.] 
II. Regulations. 
1. After this date no appointment will he made of regimental 
or battalion commissaries in the provisional army. Departmental 
commanders will direct the transfer, by regimental commissaries, 
of all money, effects and property in their hands to the proper 
regimental quartermasters, who will thereafter discharge the 
duties of the former, in accordance with the provisions of this 
act. Until such transfer is perfected, regimental commissaries 
will continue in the performance of their usual duties ; but after 
the 31st day of July next all quartermasters and commissaries, 
assistant quartermasters and assistant commissaries, who have 
not been or may not be, prior to July 31st, specially detailed or 
assigned to duty, will chase to be officers in the Confederate ser- 
vice. 
2. Sales to officers will, after the. 31st of July next, be made 
by the brigade commissary, as required in the 4t.h section ( f the 
act; and to enable him to do so, the brigade commander will 
select and report to the War Department, through the u-ual 
channel, the best qualified regimental commissary of his brigade, 
for assignment to duty with the brigade commissary. It shall be 
the special duty of the commissary thus assigned, to receive sup- 79 
plies in bulk, and to make the usually required 
the army. He will be under the immediate direction of'the bri' 
gade commissary ; will receipt to him for all property received, 
and make through him the proper reports and returns of his 
transactions. 
3. In cavalry regiments, a lieutenant of cavalry or other com- 
petent officer may be detailed, when necessary, to aid the regi- 
mental quartermaster in the discharge of such additional duties 
as may be devolved upon him under the operation of this law. 
4. Additional bonds will not be required of regimental quar- 
termasters charged with commissary duties, except where directed 
bv the Secretary of War. 
By order. 
S. COOPER,. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 71. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, May 30, 1863. 
The following Act of Congress having been approved by the 
President, is announced for the information and guidance of all 
concerned: 
An Act allowing Hospital Accommodationt to Siek and Wounded 
Officers. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
That sick or wounded officers shall be allowed hospital accommo- 
dations in any of th-e hospitals of the Confederate States, at one 
dollar per diem. 
“ Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, When said officer shall be 
without money, he shall nevertheless be entitled to the same. 
The Surgeon in charge, at the expiration of every thirty days, 
shall state the account, and be entitled to draw the amount at 
any place where the officer might have drawn it, which shall be 
deducted from said officer’s pay, in the same way as if he himself 
had drawn it ; and any officer drawing the same again, shall be 
punished as in the case of fraudulent drawers.” [Approved 
April 29, 1863.] 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inmector General,  orders, 
No. 72. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, June 1, 1863. 
I. At the Military Court held for the Army Corps of Major 
General Samuel Jones, at Gray Sulphur Springs, Virginia, May 
5th, 1863, was arraigned and tried: 
Captain Wm. S. Rowan, Company A, 60th Ya. Volunteers, on 
the following Charges—(the Specifications being numerous and 
lengthy, are omitted in this order) : 
Charge ls£, - - Violation of the 83d Article of War. 
Charge 2d, - - Violation of the 99th Article of War. 
II. Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
Having maturely considered the evidence adduced, the Court 
find the accused, Capt. Wm. S. Rowan, Company A, 60th Va« 
Volunteers: 
Of the 1st Charge, ..... Guilty * 
Of the 2d Charge, Guilty 
And do, therefore, sentence him to be dismissed the service of 
the Confederate States. 
III. The proceedings, finding and sentence in the foregoing 
ease have been submitted to the Secretary of War, to be laid 
before the President—and the following orders are now made 
thereon : 
The charges are both too defective to sustain a trial. Neither 
the 83d nor the 99th Article of War, defines any offence what- 
ever, nor do they direct the performance of any duty. No viola- 
tion of either of those articles can properly be charged. 
Under the 83d Article, the only charge to be preferred is “con- 
duct unbecoming an officer and gentleman and under the 99th, 
“ conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline■” 
The specifications would then have been responsive to the charges, 
and would have sustained a trial and sentence in accordance with 
the evidence. 
IY. For the reasons above assigned, the proceedings must be 
set aside; and Capt. Rowan will be released from arrest and re- 
stored to duty. The record discloses facts very disgraceful to 
him ; but it is hoped that his accidental escape from deserved 
punishment a determination to retrieve his charac- 
ter as a citizen ana officer of the army. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General, GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 73. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, June 2, 1863. 
I. At the Military Court held for the Army of Lt. Gen. Polk, 
at Shelbyville, Tenn., April 14th'', 1863, was tried: 
Capt. W. W. W. Wood, Company L, Blythe’s Regiment of Miss. 
Volunteers, on the following charge and specifications • 
Charge, - Conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman. 
Specifications.—The 1st and 3d are omitted. The 2d is as fol 
lows: 
Specification 2- In this, that the said Capt. W. W. W. Wood, 
Company L, Blythe’s Miss. Regiment (f Volunteers, remained in 
camp four days preceding and during the battle of Murfreesboro’, 
but came to his company the day after said battle, to wit, Janu- 
ary 1, 1863, and took command of his company until a part of the 
regiment, his company included, was ordered forward to support 
the sharp shooters who were in front of the line of battle, when 
said Capt. W. W. W. Wood, Company L, Blythe’s Miss. Regi- 
ment, made a pretext to Lieut. O’Hea of his company for momen- 
tarily leaving his place. lie the said Capt. W. W W. V ood, 
Company L, Blythe’s Regiment, returned to his company no more, 
but reported to Doct. X. Xaupi, surgeon of said regiment, who 
refused to excuse him. Nevertheless, said Capt. W. W. W. Wood, 
Company L, Blythe’s Miss. Regiment of Volunteers, went back 
to camp, and remained there till forced out on the following morn- 
ing. All this near Murfreesboro’, Tenn., January 1, 1863. 
II. Finding and Sentence. 
The majority of the Court find the accused, Capt. W. W. W 
Wood, Company L. Blythe’s Miss. Regiment, as follows: 
Of Specification 1st, Not Guilty. 
Of so much of that part of Specification 2d, which 
charges him with two days remaining away from 
his company at camp, ----- Guilty. 
The whole Court find him of the remainder of Spe- 
cification 2d, - - - Not Guilty. 
The whole Court honorably acquit him of the 3d 
Specification, and say, Not Guilty. 
The majority of the Court find him of the Charge, Guilty, 
and sentence him to be dismissed the service. III. The proceedings in the foregoing case have been submitted 
to the Secretary of War, to be laid before the President—and the 
following orders are now made thereon : 
Capt. Wood was tried on the single charge of “ conduct unbe- 
coming an officer and gentleman,” under which three specifica- 
tions were laid. The whole Court acquit him of the 3d specifi- 
cation. A majority acquit him of the 1st and part of the 2d 
specification, but find him guilty of the remainder of the 2d spe- 
cification, and guilty of the charge. A portion of the 2d specifi- 
cation is, therefore, all that in the opinion of the Court sustains 
the charge. But this finding is altogether too imperfect and 
uncertain. If the 2d specification refers to separate and distinct 
offences, it is wholly defective, and should have been set aside 
before the trial ; but if it embraces a single substantive offence, 
the Court cannot separate its parts, and find the accused guilty 
as to one portion and not guilty as to another, unless it is clear 
that the facts thus separated and established, of themselves consti- 
tute the particidar offence charged. But this is far from being 
clear. The looseness and uncertainty of the 2d specification, and 
the finding thereon, are a sufficient and fatal objection. The 
whole finding is moreover informal and irregular. The judges 
give lengthy and separate opinions in connection with it, and 
represent one part of their finding to be by a majority, and the 
remainder by the whole Court. It is never desirable to state by 
what vote the Court has arrived at its conclusions, and it is con- 
trary to the practice of Courts Martial to do so. Upon the whole, 
the proceedings are set aside, and Capt. Wood wilt therefore be 
released from arrest and returned to duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 74. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, June 3, 1863. 
I. The Congress of the Confederate States, having failed to 
recognize the appointment of provost marshals from persons not 
belonging to the army, or to make appropriation for the services 
of those persons who had been employed in that capacity, here- 
after no such appointments will be made. 
II. The Generals of departments -will report the posts at which 
provost marshals are needed, with the number of provost or other 
guard's at the same, and recommend for appointment suitable 
officers for the same. III. In all cases preference -still be given to competent officers 
who have become disabled, by wounds or other infirmity, for ac- 
tive field duty. 
IY. At all the posts not supplied before the 1st of July with 
provost marshals belonging to the army, in accordance with this 
order, the office will be considered as abolished. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 75. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, June 4, 1863. 
I. The folio-wing Act of Congress concerning compensation to 
detailed men, and the instructions of the War Department in re- 
gard thereto, are published for the information and direction of 
all concerned: 
“ 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do en- 
act, that non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, when 
employed on detached or detailed service by the department or 
other commander of a district, or under the direction of any of 
the military bureaux, instead of the compensation now allowed, 
may be allowed the sum of not more than three dollars per day, 
in lieu of rations and all other allowances, upon the recommen- 
dation of the officer immediately in charge of such men, with the 
approval of the commander or other chief of bureau, as the case 
may be, and the sanction of the Secretary of War. 
“ 2. This act shall remain in force for one year from the first 
day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.” 
[Approved May 1st, 1863.J 
II.—1. Detailed men in the service of the several military bu- 
reaux, other than the clerks described in act No. 52 {clerks em- 
ployed in public offices in the city of Richmond, by reason of 
physical disability,) will be allowed such sum per day in lieu of 
rations and all other allowances, not exceeding three dollars, as 
may be recommended by the officer in charge of such detailed 
men, and approved by the chief of bureau. 
2. The maximum allowance of three dollars will be paid only 
to the class of detailed men serving at posts or stations without 
troops, or in counties and towns, or government work shops. 
3. The rate of allowance to men serving in the field as clerks 
at h«ad quarters, or on duty in the quartermaster’s, ordnance, 84 
engineer, commissary or medical, mining and nitre departments, 
will be established at such sums per diem as maybe recommend- 
ed by the officer in charge of such men, and approved by the 
Commanding General. These rates will not exceed §1 25 per 
diem, except in special cases of service in the departments above 
mentioned, when a greater rate may be authorized by the chiefs 
of bureaux, upon the approval of the Commanding General. 
4. The extra compensation allowed by the foregoing act will 
be paid to detailed men by the departments in which they are re- 
spectively employed, except medical departments, upon such rolls 
as may be prescribed; except that payments by the quartermas- 
ter’s department will be made upon rolls according to Form No. 
3, Regulations of the Quartermaster’s Department. Such pay- 
ments will be in full of all payments and allowances heretofore 
paid and allowed to. soldiers, except their monthly pay. Payments 
in the medical department will be made as now, by quartermas- 
ters. 
5. Shoemakers detailed under tho provisions of the act of Oc- 
tober 9th, 1862, who may receive the per diem allowance, in lieu 
of rations and other allowances authorized by the act of May 1st, 
1863, will also be entitled to the compensation of thirty-five cents 
per pair for shoes manufactured by them, authorized by the said 
act of October 9, 1862. 
6. All payments to detailed men under the act of May 1st, 
1863, will be made from the first day of January, 18C3, and will 
not be continued beyond the 31st of December, 1863 ; but no 
payment shall be made to those who have been detailed hereto- 
fore, “ without pay and allowance as soldiers.” From and after 
31st May payments to such men will be made under this act. 
7. The approval of the chiefs of bureaux and the sanction of 
the Secretary of War, required by the above recited act of Con- 
gress, will not be necessary in each particular case of detail; but 
each bureau may, with the approval of the Secretary of War, 
prescribe general regulations for the payment of the different 
classes of detailed men in their respective employments. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 70. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’i/s Office, 
Richmond, June 5, 1863. 
Officers of the army are directed in all official reports, whether 
of sieges, campaigns or battles, to confine their statements to th6 
facts and events connected with the matter on which they report. No extraneous subject, whether of speculation or of collateral 
narrative, has a proper place in the official reports of military 
operations. As much conciseness as is consistent with perspicui- 
ty and fullness of statement, will be observed in such communi- 
cations. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 77. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, June 6, 1863. 
When an infantry soldier is detailed as a courier, under para- 
graph III, General Orders, No. 7, current series, and shall keep 
himself provided with a serviceable horse, he will be allowed 
forty cents per day for the use and risk of his horse. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 78. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, June 7, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Martial, convened at the Camp of Major 
General Anderson’s Division, by virtue of General Orders, No. 
133, of 1862, from Head Quarters of Department of Northern 
Virginia, was arraigned and tried : 
Private Allen Matthews, Company E, 6th Regiment of Va. 
Infantry, on the following charge, viz : 
Charge, ----- Desertion. 
Specification—In this, that the said Private Allen Matthews, 
Company E, 6th Va. Regiment, did, on or about the 10th day of 
May, 1862, near Petersburg, Va., absent himself from his com- 
pany and regiment without leave, and did remain absent till ar- 
rested and sent to his regiment, then near Fredericksburg, Va., 
on or about the 13th day of February, 1863. 
Finding. 
Of the Specification, Guilty. 
Of the Charge, Guilty, 86 
Sentence. 
To be shot to death with musketry, at such time and place as 
the Commanding General may direct. 
II. The proceedings, finding and sentence in the foregoing 
case having been laid before the Secretary of War, for the order 
of the President, are approved. But for the considerations stated 
in the earnest appeal of the captain of his company, the sen- 
tence is remitted, in the hope that his future conduct will prove 
that the clemency extended to him was not misplaced, and that 
his life, justly forfeited by his grave offence, will be hereafter 
used to redeem his name from its present reproach. 
Private Matthews will be released and returned to duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 79. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, June 9, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Martial, convened at the Camp of Major 
General R. II. Anderson, by virtue of General Orders, No. 133, 
par. II, of 1862, from Head Quarters Army of Northern Virginia, 
•was arraigned and tried: 
Private George Mormon, Company C, 8th Ala. Regiment, on 
the following charges : 
Charge 1, - - Violation of the 52d Article of War" 
Specification—In this, that the said Private George Mormon* 
Company C, 8th Ala. Regiment, did leave his company and regi* 
ment, while in line of battle at the battle of Seven Pines, June 
1st, 1862, without proper authority, thereby allowing himself to 
be taken prisoner by the enemy on the 2d day of June, 1862. 
Charged, ... Violation of the 22d Article of War* 
Specification—In this, that the said Private George Mormon* 
Company C, 8th Ala. Regiment, did leave the camp or hospital* 
while a paroled prisoner at Richmond, Va., before being ex' 
changed, about August 15th, 1862, and enlisted in the marine 
corps at Mobile, Ala., under an assumed name; and drew there- 
frpm bounty, clothing, &c., to the amount of one hundred and 
forty-nine dollars and fifty cents ; and did not return to his com- 
pany till arrested by Lieut. W. II. Dunn, Company II, 8th Ala. 
Regiment, about the 10th day of January, 1863. Finding. 
Of the Specification of 1st Charge, - - - Guilty. 
Of the 1st Charge, ------- Guilty. 
Of the Specification of 2d Charge, - - - Guilty. 
Of the 2d Charge, ------- Guilty. 
Sentence. 
To forfeit all pay due to him, and to be shot to death with 
musketry, at such time and place as the Commanding General 
may direct. 
II. The proceedings in the above case having been laid before 
the Secretary of War, for the orders of the President, are ap- 
proved ; and so much of the sentence as requires the accused to 
be shot to death with musketry is remitted, in consideration of 
the earnest recommendation of the members of his regiment, 
and their assurance that a reform in his character as a soldier 
may be confidently relied on. 
III. Private Mormon will be returned to his regiment. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 80. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office’ 
Richmond, June 10, 1863. 
I. Contractors with government officers to supply paper, are 
hereby authorized to send agents to the armies in the field, and 
to military posts, for the purpose of collecting material converti- 
ble into paper. 
II. Commanding officers of armies and military departments 
will direct suitable facilities to be given to such agents, when 
coming certified by the officers with whom the contract is made, and 
will direct the quartermaster’s department to furnish transporta- 
tion to the nearest public route, for all materials collected, when- 
ever consistent with the interest of the service. 
III. Non-commissioned officers and privates, who belonged to 
companies or regiments which have been disbanded, and who, on 
account of their absence on detailed duty, were not mustered 
out of service with the commands to which they were attached, 
but were continued for detailed duty, will be paid for the period 
of such detail, upon descriptive lists prepared and signed by the 88 
officer under whom they may be serving. Clothing will be drawn 
and issued to them by such officer, who will keep an accurate 
account of such issues, and endorse them upon said descriptive 
lists. All such non-commissioned officers and soldiers within the 
conscript age, will be at once reported to the nearest enrolling 
officer, who will take measures to assign them to companies. 
Those who are not liable to service as conscripts, will be dis- 
charged by order from the Adjutant and Inspector General’s 
office. 
IY. In all elections of officers prescribed by law, a majority of 
all the votes cast will be necessary to a choice. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 81. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, June 11, 1863. 
T. A Court of Enquiry having been convened, by direction of 
the President, on the application of Lieut. Colonel Eugene E. 
McLean, Assistant Quartermaster General, under Special orders, 
No. 282, paragraph XY, of 1862, li to examine into and report 
upon the conduct of the quartermaster’s department of the Army 
of the Mississippi, whilst under the control of Lieut Colonel, 
then Major McLean and having made the required examina- 
tion and report, the result is, by direction of the President, pub- 
lished for the information of all concerned. 
II. The Court having maturely considered the evidence ad- 
duced, report, as the 
SUMMARY OF FACTS 
Regarded by the Court of Enquiry in the case of Lieut. Colonel 
E. E NcLean, as proved by the evidence elicited, and of record : 
1. That the Army of the Mississippi, as commanded by Gen- 
eral Braxton Bragg, was an organization separate and distinct 
from the Army of the West, commanded by Major General Earl 
Yan Dorn—both these armies, when concentrated at Corinth and 
Tupelo, being under General Beauregard, as commander of the 
forces. 
2. That the Army of the Mississippi was composed of three 
army corps, commanded respectively by Generals Bragg, Polk 
and Hardee, and of a Reserve Corps commanded by General 
Breckinridge. 
3. That the evacuation of Corinth by the Confederate forces under General Beauregard, was first fixed for the 28th of May, 
1862. 
4. That the evacuation of Corinth was postponed to the 29th 
of May, 1862. 
5. That the evacuation of Corinth was accomplished during 
the night of the 29th and morning of the 30th of May, 1862. 
6. That General Bragg relieved General Beauregard in the 
command of the forces at Tupelo, in the latter part of June, 
1862. 
7. That Lieut. Colonel, then Major McLean, wa3 acting as 
chief quartermaster of the Army of the Mississippi, about the 
12th of March, 1862. 
8. That Major McLean was appointed chief quartermaster of 
the Army of the Mississippi by General A. Sidney Johnston, on 
the 30th of March, 1862. 
9. That Lieut. Colonel McLean was relieved from duty as chief 
Suartermaster of the forces, by General Bragg, on the 4tfi of 
uly, 1862, at Tupelo, Miss. 
10. That the Army of the Mississippi, whilst Lieut. Colonel 
McLean was its chief quartermaster, both at Corinth and Tu- 
pelo, was amply supplied with money, clothing, camp and garri- 
son equipage, wagons, public animals, field transportation in 
general, and with all quartermaster’s stores, with the exception 
of full rations of forage at Corinth and of certain other articles 
which were applied for, and subsequently obtained by the 
quartermaster’s department, or the parties requiring them at the 
time. 
11. That there were throughout the army occasional com- 
plaints of the want, for a short time, of certain quartermaster’s 
supplies, which the evidence shows were sufficiently accounted 
for, or promptly supplied, as far as possible, and the circum- 
stances would permit of its being done. 
12. That the supply of forage at Corinth was sufficient, though 
not full, and for a time restricted in amount and kind, owdng to 
the nature of the surrounding country and other circumstances, 
Whilst at Tupelo it was ample, the army then being located in 
the vicinity of a country abounding in forage. .. 
13". That there was but little forage within reach of Corinth 
by wagon transportation, and that little was consumed at an 
early day of our occupation of that post and the adjacent coun- 
ties. 
14. That the facilities afforded by the rail roads concentrating 
at that point, especially after their partial abandonment to the 
enemy, were not sufficient for the transportation of a full supply 
of forage for the army at Corinth, and at the same time to sup- 
ply that army with all other quartermaster’s, commissary’s and 
ordnance stores required, and at the same time meet the sudden and unexpected demands for the transportation of large num- 
bers of troops, the sick, &c. 
15. That an abundant supply of corn, and as much long for- 
age as could be found, was purchased by the quartermaster’s de- 
partment, and deposited along the lines of the different rail 
roads fqr shipment to Corinth ; and when cars could be obtained, 
they were generally kept loaded with such forage, ready to be 
attached to the passing trains. 
16. That the rail roads were worked to their utmost capacity, 
but that many cases occurred, where, from inability to transport 
them, the cars found ready loaded with forage, were left by the 
passing trains on the side tracks of the rail roads, and thus de- 
tained or delayed in arriving at their place of destination. 
17. That all side tracks required for the efficient working of 
the different railroads were laid down by the quartermaster’s de- 
partment wherever found insufficient for the accommoda’tion of 
the increased business of the rail roads. 
18. That a competent military superintendent of the rail 
roads (a major in the quartermaster’s department) was selected 
by the presidents of the rail roads, and with their concurrence, 
appointed by General Beauregard, to take upon himself the en- 
tire and exclusive control of all the army transportation by rail 
road, under the immediate supervision of General Beauregard, 
then commanding the forces. 
19. That the quartermaster’s department, whilst under the 
control of Lieut. Colonel McLean, established, and had in suc- 
cessful operation throughout the district of country under his 
charge, many and extensive manufactories for the supply of the 
army with quartermaster’s stores. 
20. That hospitals were erected and otherwise supplied for the 
use of the army, including that of the Mississippi, and were in 
many instances furnished and supplied from the stores of the 
quartermaster’s department, whilst under the control of Lieut. 
Colonel McLean. 
21. That artesian wells were, under the direction of Lieut. 
Col. McLean, successfully bored at Corinth, to supply the army 
at that place with water. 
22. That corrals were established by the quartermaster’s de- 
partment of the Army of the Mississippi, in the rear of the 
army, for the disabled and worn down public animals, where 
they were in large numbers, properly attended and successfully 
recruited for the service. 
23. That for ordinary purposes, a sufficient and permanent 
force of negro laborers was employed by the quartermaster’s 
department for loading and unloading the cars at the rail road 
depots. v 
24. That in cases of emergency, sufficient assistance was ob- 91 
tained by details from the army, upon the application of the par- 
ties desiring them, as was the case of the pose and ordnance de- 
partment at the evacuation of Corinth. 
25. That there was a sufficient number of competent and effi- 
cint officers of the quartermaster’s department at all times at the 
rail road depot at Corinth, to superintend and control the rail 
road transportation of the army during the evacuation of that 
place. 
26. That the transportation operations on the occasion of the 
evacuation of Corinth, were expeditiously and successfully 
conducted by energetic and competent officers of the quarter- 
master’s department, assigned to the special duty of superin- 
tending the transportation of army stores and troops from that 
place by rail. 
27. That material aid was rendered by General Bragg and 
several members of his staff, and some members of the staff of 
General Beauregard, also by other officers, as well as by Col. 
Benton’s regiment, and other details from the army. 
28. That there was no public property left in Corinth upon 
the evacuation of the place, except a few tents and broken wa- 
gons, some old harness, and some few shells and other ordnance 
stores ; most of which property appears to have been damaged 
or condemned, or not worth the cost of its transportation under 
the attending circumstances. 
29. That there was a loss of a number of rail road engines 
and cars loaded with army stores, upon the Memphis and Charles- 
ton rail road, on the morning’ of the 30th of May, 1862, occa- 
sioned by the burning of the rail road bridges across the Hatchie 
and Tuscumbia rivers, in obedience to specific orders given the 
officers in command at those bridges, to destroy them at a cer- 
tain hour. 
30. That the quartermaster’s department had no notice that 
the bridges were to be destroyed ; otherwise the trains lost might 
have been dispatched in time to have passed the bridges, or 
turned down the Mobile and Ohio rail road, and thus saved. 
31. That there was a loss of a train of cars containing certain 
government property, at Booneville, whilst standing on the track 
of the Mobile and Ohio rail road, on the morning of the 30th of 
May, 1862, occasioned by a raid of the enemy’s cavalry, over 
which the quartermaster’s department had rio control. 
32. That Lieut. Colonel McLean was, at one time during his 
administration of the quartermaster’s department of the Army 
of the Mississippi and other forces, afflicted with a disease, 
which was local, and not of a nature permanently to disable him 
from attending to all the duties required of him as chief of his 
department. 
33. That with the exception of a few dava’ illness at Corinth* 92 
about a week previous to the evacuation of that place, Lieut. 
Colonel McLean was not unable, at any time while chief quar- 
termaster of the army, to attend to all the duties which were re- 
quired of him, and that he did so attend promptly to all the du- 
ties devolving upon him at the time. 
34. That Lieut Colonel McLean is shown by the evidence to 
have been prompt, energetic, efficient, courteous and considerate 
in the discharge of his duties as chief quartermaster of the 
arm}', successively under Generals Johnston, Beauregard and 
Bragg, and especially solicitous for the welfare and success of 
the department entrusted to his charge, and for which he was 
responsible. 
OPINION OF THE COURT. 
It is the opiuicn of this Court, that from the facts elicited in 
the investigation of the conduct of the quartermaster's depart- 
ment of the Army of the Mississippi, whilst under the control of 
Lieut. Colonel, then Major Eugene E. McLean, it appears that 
the department was managed with all the energy, efficiency, fore- 
thought and success which could have been expected under the 
difficult circumstances attending the sudden concentration of our 
armies ; the unexpected occupation by the enemy of our princi- 
pal fields of supply; the scarcity of the means of field transpor- 
tation ; the inability to obtain forage within reasonable reach of 
the army by means of wagon transportation ; the failure or ina- 
bility of the rail roads of the country to transport from a dis- 
tance, when purchased, forage to the army; the closing of the 
great markets of New Orleans, Memphis and Nashville ; the in- 
terference by agents of other branches of the service, with the 
departments of purchases of forage, and of transportation, under 
Lieut. Colonel McLean ; the original scarcity throughout the 
country of all supplies needed ; the continuance of such scarcity 
in consequence of the existing blockade of the ports of the Con- 
federacy ; and the. inexperience of nearly all quartermasters' 
agents in the beginning of the war. 
It further appears from the evidence, that in the arduous du- 
ties attending the evacuation of Corinth by the Confederate Ar- 
my under General Beauregard, the quartermaster’s department 
was fully represented by able and efficient officers, pres- 
ent at the rail road depot day and night, and to their activity 
and judgment is the successful removal of the public stores, for 
which the quartermaster’s department was responsible at that 
place, mainly attributable. That the quartermaster’s depart- 
ment during the day and night preceding the evacuation was 
efficiently aided by the personal exertions of General Bragg and 
several members of his and General Beauregard’s staff, and by the exertions of Col. Benton’s regiment, together with other de- 
tails from the army. 
It also appears from the evidence, that the evacuation of Co- 
rinth, so far as the quartermaster’s department was concerned, 
was a complete military success, and that although so short a 
time was allowed to remove the stores, but little property was 
lost, and that but of small value, being mostly worthless or con- 
demned stores. The severe losses of the engines and cars, to- 
gether with the public property contained in the latter, destroyed 
on the morning of the evacuation on the Hutehie and Tuscum- 
bia bridges, on the Memphis and Charleston rail road, by our 
troops, and on the Mobile and Ohio rail road, at Boor.eville, by 
a raid of the enemy’s cavalry, are shown from the evidence to 
be in no way attributable to the quartermaster’s department. 
The Court is also of opinion, that the investigation has fur- 
ther shown, that in the conduct of the department committed to 
his charge, Lieut. Colonel McLean was prompt, energetic and 
efficient in the discharge of all the duties of his office whilst 
chief quartermaster of the army, and that whilst in the execu- 
tion of those duties, his instructions to and teachings of his su- 
bordinates, contributed much to the success attendant on their 
exertions, and to the introduction and maintenance of the proper 
system and order in the various branches of the department en- 
trusted to his supervision and control. 
III. The Court of Enquiry, of which Col. M. Lewis Clark was 
president, is hereby dissolved. 
Bv order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 82. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, June 12, 1863. 
The second section of the act entitled an act to organize Par- 
tisan Rangers, provides that such Partizan Rangers, after being 
regularly received into service, shall be entitled to the same pay, 
rations and quarters, during their'term of service, and be subject 
to the same regulations as other soldiers. The irregularities re- 
ported to this department as having been committed by such 
corps, renders it proper that these corps shall be placed under 
stricter regulations than those heretofore adopted. The Generals 
commanding the departments in which they are serving, are 
hereby authorized to combine them into battalions and regi- 
ments, with the view to bringing them under the same regula- 94 
tions as otU.er soldiers, in reference to their discipline, position 
and movements; and the same officers will recommend any fur- 
ther measures for their organization as an integral portion of 
their commands, as will in their opinion promote their efficiency 
and the interests of the service. The General of the department 
will recommend field officers for the organizations that may be 
made, to be submitted for the consideration of the President. 
Such partizan corps as are serving within the enemy's lines, are 
for the present excepted from this order. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 83. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, June 13, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Martial, convened at Shelbyville, Ten- 
nessee, by virtue of General Orders, No. 63, March 16, 1863, 
from the Adjutant and Inspector General’s office, Richmond, was 
arraigned and tried: 
Major General John P. McCoun, P. A. C. S., on the follow- 
ing Charge and Specification : 
Charge, - Conduct to the prejudice of good 
order and military discipline. 
Specification 1—In this, that Major General John P. McCoun, 
P. A. C. S., being in command of a division serving with “Army 
of Tennessee,” did, without authority, order, through his statf 
officer, Major Bradford, Assistant Adjutant General, Capt. Olh- 
son, A. C. S., 4th Ark. Regiment, “ to go to Charleston, S. 0., 
and such other points as may be necessary, when the said Major 
General John P. McCoun, P. A. C. S., knew that such details 
were not authorized. All this at Shelby ville, Tennessee, on or 
before the 3d day of February, 1863. 
Specification 2—In this, that Major General John P. McCoun, 
P. A. 0. S-, commanding division, did, through his Assistant 
Adjutant General, Major Bradford, issue the said order to Ma- 
jor Olhson, A. C. S , 4th Arkansas Regiment, to proceed to 
Charleston, S. C., and o.her points, when he the said Major 
General John P. McCoun, P. A. C. S., had but a short time pre- 
vious received and acknowledged the receipt of an official com- 
munication from the Commanding General of Department No. 
2, requiring an explanation in regard to his detailing officers and 
enlisted men to go from his (McCoun’s) division, out of the lines 95 
of the army. All this at Shelbyville, Tennessee, on or about tho 
3d day of February, 1863. 
II. Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
After maturely considering the evidence adduced, the Court 
find the accused, Major General John P. McCoun, P. A. C. S., as 
follows, to wit: 
Of the 1st Specification, .... Guilty. 
Of the 2d Specification, ... Not Guilty. 
Of the Charge, - - - - Guilty. 
And do sentence him to be suspended from all rank, pay and 
emoluments for the space of six months; and that he be repri- 
manded in General Orders, by the officer reviewing the proceed- 
ings of this Court. 
III. The proceedings, findings and sentence in the foregoing case 
having been submitted to the Secretary of War, to be laid before 
the President, and having been duly considered, the same are 
approved, and the sentence of the Court will be carried into ef- 
fect. Major General John P. McCoun is therefore suspended 
from rank, pay, emoluments and command for six months from 
this date. 
IV. The General Court Martial, convened by General Orders, 
No. 63. Adjutant and Inspector General’s office, and of which 
Major General J. M. "Withers is president, is hereby dissolved. 
By order. 
S. COOPER. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 84. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, June 15, 1863. 
I. Ordnance officers on duty in the field do not form a part of 
the personal staff of the Commanding General. 
II. Chiefs of Ordnance of Armies and Departments will be 
assigned by the War Department, and will not be removed, 
except on orders through the Adjutant and Inspector General’s 
office. 
III. Other Ordnance officers will continue to serve with the 
commands to which they are attached until relieved by orders 
from the head quarters of the army or department in which they 
are serving. Copies of orders assigning or relieving Ordnance 
officers will be forwarded to the Chief of the Ordnance Bureau 
at Richmond, 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General 96 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 85. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, June 16, 1863. 
I. The following Act of Congress, and the Regulations adopted 
by the Department in pursuance thereof, are published for the 
information of all concerned: 
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A NITRE AND MINING BUREAU. 
“ Sect. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States do enact, 
That the officers authorized and appointed under the act entitled 
an act for the organization of a corps of officers for the working 
of nitre caves, &c., passed April 11, 1862, together with such 
additional officers as are authorized by the provisions of this act, 
shall constitute an independent bureau of the War Department, 
to be entitled ‘ The Nitre and Mining Bureau.’ 
“ Sec. 2. Re it further enacted, That said bureau shall have 
charge of all the duties prescribed in the second section of said 
act, and shall besides be charged with all duties and expendi- 
tures connected with the mining of iron, copper, lead, coal, Ac., 
sc far as it shall be deemed necessary to supply the military 
necessities of the country; and the superintendent thereof shall, 
under the Secretary of War, have full power to make such leases 
of real estate, and purchases of fixtures, as are necessary or ap- 
purtenant to any mines it may be deemed expedient to open or 
work on government account; and may also coritract, subject to 
the approval of the Secretary of War, for such supplies, by pur- 
chase or otherwise, of all copper, lead, iron, coal, zinc, and such 
other minerals as may be required for the prosecution of the war. 
“ Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That said bureau shall consist 
of ono Lieutenant Colonel as superintendent; three Majors as 
assistant superintendents; six Captains and ten Lieutenants, in 
which shall be included the officers of the present nitre corps,, 
who shall have the same pay and allowances prescribed for officers 
of cavalry of the same grades.” [Approved April 22, 1863. j 
II. The Secretary of War is of opinion that it is necessary to 
accumulate supplies of iron, in the various military departments, 
for the repair of rail roads, the manufacture of arms, munitions 
and materials of war, and for the operations of the quarter- 
master’s, ordnance and engineer departments, and that experi- 
ence has shown that the necessary supply cannot be obtained by 
pui'chase. Impressment, therefore, according to the act of Con- 
gress relating to impressments, has become necessary to secure a 
supply. It is ordered that all impressments that may be made 
of iron for this purpose, shall be conducted by the chiefs of the 
quartermasters, crdnanse, engineer and nitre and mining bureaux, 97 
or by officers designated by them, who shall in every instance 
communicate to the owner the necessity that exists for the use of 
the property, the disposition of the officers to purchase the same, 
and an offer to purchase it at a price to be ascertained, in accord- 
ance with the act relating to impressments, if the parties cannot 
agree upon the same.* 
III. And whereas the existing necessity for iron in the depart- 
ments aforesaid, and for the good of the public service is such, 
that all practicable measures must be taken to secure an adequate 
supply, it is further ordered, that whenever it may become neces- 
sary to secure the full product of any mine or manufactory, that 
the same shall be worked for the sole benefit of the government 
of the Confederate States. It shall be competent to the chief of 
either of the departments aforesaid to lease or purchase the same; 
and in case that the lease or purchase is impracticable, then they 
are authorized to impress the same for the use of the Confederate 
States duiing the war, or while such necessity shall continue. 
IV. The proceedings under these orders will be conducted 
under the 4th section of the act concerning impressments, and 
in pursuance of the directions contained in paragraph I. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 86. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, June 22, 1863. 
Whereas, there has been a number of applications to this de- 
partment for authority to raise companies for local defence and 
special service, and for instructions as to the method by which 
such organizations may be made and the privileges they may 
claim, the department has adopted the following regulations on 
the subject: 
I. Companies, battalions and regiments, composed of persons 
not within the age of conscription (18 and 40), will be accepted 
as volunteers throughout the Confederacy, under the act of Au- 
gust 21st, 1861 (No. 229), for local defence and special service.t 
*See, also, Gen. Orders, No. 10; 1864. 
t Amended by Tar. II, Gen. Orders, No. $8 II. The organization of corps for local defence must conform 
to that prescribed for companies, battalions and regiments of 
the provisional arqiy. The minimum number for a company of 
infantry of 64 rank and file, and for cavalry 60. Battalions must 
consist of not less than five companies, and regiments of ten. 
Artillery is not desirable. Members of cavalry companies must 
furnish their own horses, hut will receive forty cents per day for 
their use while in actual service. 
III. The muster roll of all such organizations shall specify 
that the said organizations are raised under this act, and subject 
to these regulations, and contain a description of the volunteer 
as to age, residence and date of enlistment, and the term of 
enlistment for the war. 
IV. Such organizations will not be considered ns in actual 
Bervice, for the purpose of receiving pay or subsistence, except 
when called for by the President. 
V. They will not be called for until a necessity arises for 
service. They shall not be required to go beyond the limits of 
the State to which they belong. 
VI. They are expected to serve when called out, only so long 
as the emergency exists, and then to return to their ordinary 
pursuits until again called. 
VII. Arms’and equipments, when not possessed by the mem- 
bers, will, to the extent necessary to supply, be furnished by the 
Confederate States. 
VIII. Should any of them be captured, they shall be claimed 
as prisoners of war, and all the protection of the government 
will be extended to them. 
IX. Field officers of battalions and regiments to be organized, 
will be appointed by the President, in accordance with the act 
aforesaid. Company officers may be elected by the companies, 
or appointed, as the members may consent. 
X. That these organizations will be preferred to and exempt 
their members from any call of militia. 
XI. The commandant of any military post of the Confederate 
States, the sheriff of any county, or the colonel commanding any 
militia regiment, or the judge or justice of any county or other 
court, may certify and return the muster rolls, which must be 
sent to the Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office at Richmond, 
for acceptance. 
XII. In the event of a call by th6 President, under the law of oonscription, on all between the ages of 40 and 4o, those in said 
organizations subject to such call will be liable to discharge or 
transfer. 
For the information and guidance of those desirous of volun- 
teering for loc&l defence, the law of August 2lst, 1861, is hereto 
appended. 
An Act to provide for Local defence and Special Service. 
“ Sec 1. The Congress of the Confederate. States of America 
do enact, That the President be and he is hereby authorized to 
accept the services of volunteers of such kind and in such pro- 
portion as he may deem expedient, to serve for such time as he 
may prescribe, for the defence of exposed places or localities, or 
such special service as he may deem expedient. 
“ Sec. 2. And such forces shall be mustered into the service of 
the Confederate States for the local defence or special service 
aforesaid, the muster roll setting forth distinctly the services to 
be performed and the said volunteers shall not be considered in 
actual service, until thereunto specially ordered by the Presi- 
dent ; and they shall be entitled to pay or subsistence only for 
such time as they may be on duty under the orders of the Presi- 
dent, or by his direction. 
“ Sec. 3. Sueh volunteer forces, when so accepted and ordered 
into service, shall be organized in accordance with and subject to 
all the provisions of the act entitled an act to provide for the 
public defence, approved March 6th, 1861, and may b8 attached 
to such divisions, brigades, regiments or battalions as the Presi- 
dent may direct; and when not organized into battalions or regi- 
ments before being mustered into service, the President shall 
appoint the field officers of the battalions or regiments, when 
organized as such by him.” [Approved August 21st, 1861.1 
By order. 
S, COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector OcneraL 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 87. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, June, 23, 1863, 
The following Forms for the enlistment of substitutes, and the 
discharge of soldiers presenting the same, will hereafter be 
observed: 100 
(Duplicates.) 
ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES. 
Application jor discharge on account of having furnished a Sub- 
stitute. 
, of Captain Company ( ), of the 
Regiment of the Confederate States Army , was enlisted 
by , of the Regiment gf , at , on the 
day of , 186—, to serve years, and not for 
the purpose of furnishing a substitute. He was born in , 
in the State of , is years of age, feet 
inches high, complexion, eyes, hair, and 
by occupation when enlisted a . 
I hereby certify that said soldier has furnished an able bodied 
man, well clothed, in the person of , as his substitute, 
whom I am willing to receive, being satisfied that the substitute 
is not now liable to conscription, by reason of 
Station : 
Date : 
Commanding Company. 
I certify that I have carefully examined the said , and 
find him sound, and in all respects fit for military service. 
Surgeon P. A. C. S. 
Discharged, this day of , 186—, at 
Commanding Battalion or Regiment. 
I hereby declare on oath that I am a resident of the State of 
1 of the Confederate States of America, and a citizen there- 
of; that I am years of age ; have not received from or 
paid to any agent money inducing me to enlist as a substitute, 
and am not a member of any company whatever. 
Sworn to before me, on this — day of , 186—. 
J. P. or N. P, 
.Approve^: 
Commanding Regiment. Heap Quarters, 
, 186—. 
Discharge approved. 
General Commanding. 
To ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : 
SOLDIER’S DISCHARGE. 
Know Ye, That , a — of Captain — Company, 
— Regiment of , who was enlisted the day of 
, one thousand eight hundred and , to serve , 
is hereby honorably discharged from the Army of the Confeder- 
ate States, by reason of his having furnished a substitute in 
the person of , a citizen of the Confederate States of 
America, years of age, as shown by affidavit on file, who 
has been examined by a surgeon of the command, and found 
duly qualified to perform the duties of a soldier. I certify that 
he is the only substitute received in the company during the 
present month, and that the principal was not eniisted for the 
purpose of furnishing a substitute. 
Said was born in , in the State of , is 
years of age, — feet inches high, com- 
plexion, eyes, hair, and by occupation when en- 
listed a . 
Given at -, this day of -— , 186—, 
Commanding Regiment. 
Approved; 
9 
General Commanding Army (or Department). 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General, 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 88. 
Adj’t and Insp’b GenVs Office, 
Richmond, June 24, 1863. 
Operators on telegraph lines, established by military comman- 
ders for military purposes, will be allowed payment for their 
services, not to exceed the rate of compensation fixed and allowed 
by the Postmaster General to the operators under his control. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 89. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gbn’l’s Office, 
Richmond, June 25, 1863. 
All discharges for disability will be held as conditional, de- 
pendent upon the disability, aud valid only during its continu- 
ance. If, on examination, the disability is at any time found to 
have ceased, the holders will be liable to conscription, to serve 
the unexpired terms of their enlistments. This regulation ap- 
plies to substitutes, whether under or over the age of conscrip- 
tion. Their services are due for the war, and the government 
should not be deprived of them, for what proves to be a tempo- 
rary disability. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 90. 
Ad/’t and Insp'r Gen Vs Office, 
Richmond, June 26, 1863. 
I. The senior officer of engineers, serving with an army in the 
field, will be held responsible for the proper execution of all du- 
ties appertaining to his department; and the orders of the Com- 
manding General relating to the engineer service, will be c< mmu- 
nicateu through him, and he will recommend to the General 
commanding, the assignments of junior officers of engineers, to 
serve with corps, divisions and brigades. The engineer officer of 
highest rank in each assignment, will receive the orders of his 
immediate commander, report to him whatever concerns the en- 
gineer service, and communicate to him the orders he receives 
from the senior engineer. He will also report to the senior engi- 
neer all his operations, with sketches, drawings and maps, for 
the information of the Commanding General, and for transmis- 
sion to the Engineer Bureau. 
II. All officers of engineers, and employees under the Engi- 
neer Department, will communicate through the proper channels 
with the senior engineer serving with the army in the field, be 
responsible to him for all public funds and property in their 
hands, and receive his orders and instructions. 
III. The duties of officers of engineers serving with the ar- 
mies of the Confederate States in the field, camp or cantonment, 
are as follows, viz : To make recopnoissances and surveys of the 
sections of country occupied by our forces, and, as far as possj- ble, of the country held by the enemy, embracing all the infor- 
mation that can be obtained in reference to roads, bridges, fords, 
topographical and military features, the character and dimen- 
sions of the water courses, the practicability of constructing fixed 
and floating bridges, the extent of wooded and cleared lands, and 
the capacity of the country to supply the general wants of the 
army; to make detailed examinations and surveys of positions to 
be occupied for defensive purposes ; to select the sites, and form 
plan*, projects and estimates for all military works, defensive or 
offensive, viz: field forts, batteries, rifle pits, lines of infantry 
cover, military trenches, parallels, saps, mines, and other works 
of attack and siege; also, works for obstructing rivers and har- 
bors ; to prepare such maps and plans as will give a full know- 
ledge of the ground and proposed works, and submit the same to 
the Commanding General for his information and consideration, 
and forward, through the proper channels, copies of all reports, 
memoirs, estimates, plans, drawings and models relating to the 
duties above enumerated, to the Engineer Bureau at Richmond. 
IV. The locations and plans for the works being thus deter- 
mined, they will be marked out on the ground by the engineers, 
who will indicate by stakes, lines, profiles and other guides, the 
shape and dimensions of the different the information 
and government of those who direct the troops or laborers em- 
ployed to do the work. When troops are detailed to construct 
temporary defences, they will be in all cases commanded by their 
officers, who will see that the work is done in exact conformity to 
the plans and directions of the officer of engineers, without re- 
gard to rank. 
V. When an officer of engineers is charged with directing an 
expedition, or making a reconnoissance requiring the support of 
an escort, without having command of the troops, he will call on 
the commander of the escort to move with, and extend to him all 
protection neeessary to secure the success of the operation. 
VI. Officers of engineers will not assume, nor be ordered on 
any duty beyond the line of their immediate profession, except 
by special order of the President. In the operations of the ar- 
mies of the Confederate States, all that appertains to the science 
of civil or military engineering will be assigned by commanders 
to the officers of engineers serving with their forces ; and with 
them will rest the responsibility of a proper execution of the 
works. The labor will be performed, if possible, by details of 
troops commanded by their officers ; in other cases, by hired 
labor under the control of overseers employed by the engineer 
officers, VII. Officers of engineers will not be required to give other 
supervision to ths fatigue parties or laborers employed in the 
construction of works, than is necessary to indicate, in a clear 
and distinct manner to those directing the labor, their plans, and 
the character of the work to be done. 
VIII. The senior officer of engineers serving with a Command- 
ing General in the field, will transmit to the Engineer Bureau at 
Richmond the reports, plans and journals called for by para- 
graph 478, Army Regulations. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 91. 
Adj’t and Jnsp’r Gen’l's Office, 
Richmond, June 27, 1863. 
I. Before the Military Court attached to Lt. Gen. Longstrect’s 
Corps, was arraigned and tried: 
Lt. Col. C. C. Flowekree, 7th Virginia Infantry. 
Charge—Drunkennlfes on duty. 
(The Specification is omitted as unnecessary.) 
Finding. 
The Court do affirm the plea of the accused, and find him aa 
follows, viz : 
Of the Specification, .... Guilty. 
Of the Charge, ..... Guilty. 
Sentence. 
To bo cashiered, and dismissed the service of the Confederate 
States. 
Recommendation of the Court. 
The undersigned, the members of the Military Court for the 
Department of Virginia and North Carolina, respectfully repre- 
sent to Lieutenant.General Longstreet, and through him to the 
President, that they have come to the judgment rendered in this 
case with reluctance. Though it may be true that this Court is 
vested with all the powers possessed by the Special Court of En- 
quiry, as it is termed, appointed by act of the Confederate Con- 
gress, approved 21st April, 1862, and vested therefore with the 
discretion as to drunkenness in officers, possessed by that Court-, they yet are of the opinion that that Court possessed no discre- 
tion as to the punishment of officers for drunkenness “ on duty.” 
The 45th Article of War prescribes that officers so offending shall 
be cashiered; and as that article is not repealed in terms, nor by 
necessary implication, in the said act of the 21st April, they con- 
ceive that that article is still the rule of punishment for such of- 
fences; but, as before stated, they have come to that conclusion 
with reluctance. They find many inducements to a milder sen- 
tence. They find that the season and the service were so severe 
as to excuse to some extent the use of ardent spirits. They find 
that the “ duty ” upon which this officer was engaged was not 
such as to require any special exercise of care, conduct or capa- 
city ; and they find that he has established a character which is 
abundant of promise to the service and the State. For these 
reasons, therefore, they would have imposed a milder sentence, 
and especially would not have deprived the Confederacy of his 
further services in the line of his profession. But in the absence, 
as they conceive, of such discretion, they can only commend him 
to the clemency of the Executive, which they hope may be exer- 
cised in such abatement of this sentence at least as will restore 
him to his command. 
II. The proceedings, findings and sentence in this case having 
been laid before the Secretary of War, for the final order of the 
President, the following decision has been rendered : 
The view taken by the Court as to the effect of the 45th Arti- 
cle of War in such cases as it provides for, is concurred in ; and 
the proceedings, findings and sentence of the Court are, there- 
fore, approved. But in consideration of the recommendation of 
the Court, and Lieut. Gen. Longstreet, and of the gallantry and 
good character of Lieut. Col. Flovrerree, the sentence is remitted, 
and he will return to duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 92. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, June 29, 1»G3. 
I. The acts of Congress, passed on the 6th of April, 1863, and 
dates subsequent thereto, having provided the means of procur- 
ing army supplies, notice is hereby given to the people of the 
Confederate States and to receiving officers, that from the date of 
this publication no more quartermaster’s supplies will be re- 
ceived under the appeal made by the President, and the plan of the Secretary of War annexed thereto. All such supplies col- 
lected or tendered prior to the time above referred to, will be 
paid for at established rates. Hereafter supplies will be ob- 
tained, as far as practicable, by purchase, and when necessary, 
by impressment; and officers, when authorized to resort to im- 
pressment, will observe strictly the requirements of law, and the 
General Orders of the War Department, and the regulations of 
this office founded thereon. 
II. That any officer who shall be authorized by the act of Con- 
gress concerning impressments, or under the regulations of this 
department pursuant thereto, which have been or may hereafter 
be made, and who has given the notice required by the same, 
shall have full and authority to enter upon any property 
in which he shall have good reason to suspect any of the articles 
of produce, goods, merchandize, or other things subject to im- 
pressment, may be stored or concealed, in order to obtain, or se- 
cure the same; and if he shall have reason to believe that they 
are stored or concealed in any dwelling house, storehouse or other 
building, to which he is refused access, he may apply to any 
judge, justice of the peace, or commissioner of a Confederate 
Court, for a warrant to enter upon the same, upon oath of the 
facts, and describing the objects stored or concealed, and obtain' 
a warrant to search for and secure the same; which warrant 
shall only be executed in the day time, and after a demand of 
the owner or occupant, if the owner or occupant shall then be 
inhabiting the building aforesaid. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 93. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Officb, 
Richmond, June 30, 1863. 
Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 49, current series, is so 
amended that the appraisement of deceased soldiers’ clothing 
shall be made after it has been washed and put in condition by 
the quartermaster, and will approximate to the government prices 
or rates at which it was originally issued. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 107 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 94. 
Adj’t and Ixsr’ji Gkn’l'b Office 
Richmond, July 4,1863. 
Information having been received absent from 
their commands without proper authority, are employed by offi- 
cers in charge of Government work, it is hereby directed that all 
such men be returned immediately to their respective companies. 
Officers, who employ men not regularly detailed, will, in every 
instance, be held answerable for the offence before a Court Mar- 
tial. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 95. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Jidy 7, 1863. 
I. Before a General Court Martial, convened at the camp of 
Brig. Gen. Paxton, by virtue of General Orders, No. 128, of 
1862, per Head Quarters Department of Northern Virginia, was 
arraigned and tried: 
Private M. Ricket, Company H, 27th Va. Infantry, on the 
following Charge : 
Charge—Violation of the 52d Article of War. 
FINDING. 
Of the Specification, Guilty. 
Of the Charge, Guilty. 
SENTENCE. 
To be shot to death with musketry. 
II. Before a General Court Martial, convened at the Camp of 
Brig. Gen. F. Lee's Brigade, by virtue of General Orders, No. 12, 
current series, from Head Quarters Department of Northern Vir- 
ginia, were arraigned and tried : 
Privates ¥m, G. Clarke and J. K. Humphreys, of Buathed’s 
Battery, Stuart's Horse Artillery, on the following Charge: 
Charge—Violation of the 23d Article of War. 
FINDING. 
Of the Specification, Guilty. 
Of the Charge, Guilty. 108 
SENTENCE. 
To be shot to death with musketry. 
III. Before a General Court Martial, convened at the Camp of 
Major Gen. R. II. Anderson’s Division, by virtue of General Or- 
ders, No. 133, of 1862, per Head Quarters Department of North- 
ern Virginia, was arraigned and tried: 
Private John Q. Childres, Company G, 5th Florida Regiment, 
on the following Charge : 
Charge—Violation of the 52d Article of War. 
FINDING. 
Of the Specification, Guilty. 
Of the Charge, Guilty. 
SENTENCE. 
To be shot to death with musketry* 
IV. Before a General Court Martial, convened at Savannah 
Ga., by virtue of General Orders, No. 61, current series, Head 
Quarters Department S. C., Ga. and Fla., was arraigned and 
tried: 
Private Henry Smith, Co. E, 22d Battalion Ga. Artillery, on 
the following Charge : 
Charge—Violation of the 46th Article of War. 
« 
FINDING. 
Of the Specification, Guilty. 
Of the Charge, Guilty. 
SENTENCE. 
To be shot to death with musketry. 
V. The proceedings in the cases of privates M. Ricket, Co. H, 
27th Va. Infantry, William G. Clarke and J. R. Humphreys, of 
Capt. Buathed’s Battery, Stuart’s Horse Artillery; John L. 
Childres, Company G, 5t~h Fla. Regiment, and Henry Smith, Co. 
E, 22d Battalion Ga. Artillery, having been laid before the Sec- 
retary of War, for the decision of the President, the following or- 
ders are made thereon : 
The several Articles of War, with the violation of which the 
above named are respectively charged, neither prescribe any duty 
or define and prohibit any offence. They simply pronounce pun- 
ishments to be imposed for certain offences. The charge of a 
violation of such articles is too indefinite to justify punishment Under it. The defect is fatal, and vitiates the whole proceed- 
ings ; which are therefore set aside. The parties will be released 
from close confinement, and returned to duty; and it is hoped 
that their future conduct will be such as to prevent any regret 
that they should have thus escaped the fate to which they were 
sentenced. 
VI. Before a General Court Martial, convened at Shelbyville, 
Tenn., by Special Orders, No. 54, from Head Quarters Army of 
Tennessee, was arraigned and tried: 
Assistant Surgeon W. T. Lockhart, P. A. C. S., on the follow- 
ing Charge: 
Charge—Conduct prejudicial to good order and military dis- 
cipline. 
Specification ls£—For that the said Asst. Surg. W. T. Lock- 
hart, at the Hospital of Withers’ Division, in Shelbyville, Tenn., 
on the 26th day of March, 1863, did harshly and capriciously 
curse and abuse one private D. F. Halliburton, Co. B, 12th Tenn. 
Regiment, he the said Halliburton then and there being a senti- 
nel on guard duty. 
The other Specifications are omitted, being nearly the same aB 
the first. 
FINDING. 
Of the third Specification of the Charge, Guilty, 
except the words “ discharging his duty." 
Of the 2d Specification, Guilty, 
except the words “ and knock down." 
Of the 1st Specification, Guilty, 
except the words “ curse and." 
Of the Charge, Guilty. 
SENTENCE. 
To be dismissed the service. 
VII. The proceedings in the above case having been laid be- 
fore the Secretary of War, for the decision of the President, are 
approved r but in consideration of the mitigating circumstances 
in the case, and the recommendations on file, the sentence of the 
Court is remitted, and Asst. Surg. Lockhart will return to duty. 
VIII. Before the General Court Martial, convened at Rich- 
mond, Va., by virtue of Special Orders, No. 23, current series, 
Head Quarters Department of Henrico, was arraigned and tried: 
Capt. W. S. Reed, commanding the President's Guard, on the 
following Charges: 110 
Chargg 1st—Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. 
Charge 2d—Violation of the 14th Article of War. 
Charge 3d—Violation of the 42d Article of War. 
Charge 4th—Violation of orders. 
The Specifications are omitted, being numerous, and of mere 
detail. 
FINDING. 
Of the 1st Specification of the 1st Charge, Not Guilty. 
Of the 2d Specification of the 1st Charge, Guilty. 
Of the 3d Specification of the 1st Charge, Guilty, 
but attach no criminality thereto. 
Of the 4th Specification of the 1st Charge, Guilty. 
Of the 5th Specification of the 1st Charge, Not Guilty. 
Of the 1st Charge, Not Guilty, 
but guilty of unofficerlike and improper conduct. 
Of the Specification of the 2d Charge, Not Guilty. 
Of the 2d Charge, Not Guilty. 
Of the Specification of the 3d Charge, Not Guilty. 
Of the 3d Charge, Not Guilty. 
Of the 1st Specification of the 4th Charge, Guilty. 
Of the 2d Specification of the 4th Charge, Guilty. 
Of the 3d Specification of the 4th Charge, Guilty. 
Of the 4th Charge, Guilty. 
SENTENCE. 
To be dismissed the service. 
IX. The proceedings in the above case having been laid before 
the Secretary of War, for the decision of the President, are ap- 
proved ; but in consideration of some mitigating circumstances, 
the sentence is commuted to suspension from rank, pay and 
emoluments, for ten days. 
X. Before the Military Court attached to Lieut. Gen. Polk's 
Corps, was arraigned and tried : 
Second Lieut. H. J. Ballentine, 47th Tenn. Regiment, on the 
following Charge: 
Charge—Violation of the 81st Article of War. 
Specification—Charges that the accused did permit a num- 
ber of prisoners to leave the guard house, and go to their respec- 
tive quarters to sleep; which resulted in the escape of one of 
them. 
FINDING. 
Of the Specification, Guilty. 
Of the Charge, Guilty/ SENTENCE. 
To be dismissed the service. 
XI. The proceedings in this case having been laid before the 
Secretary of War, for the decision of the President, are approved; 
but in consideration of the offence against military law, as 
shown by the evidence, being in this case rather an indiscretion 
than a crime, and of the distinguished gallantry of Lieut. Bal- 
lantine at the battles of Shiloh, Richmond, Kentucky, and Mur- 
freesboro’, upon the recommendation of the Court, and of his 
Commanding General, the sentence is remitted, and Lieut. Bal- 
lentine will return to duty. 
XII. Before a Military Court attached to Lieut. General W. J. 
Hardee’s Corps, was arraigned and tried : 
First Lieut. Israel P. Gut, 16th Ala. Regiment, on the follow- 
ing Charges : 
Charge 1st—Desertion. 
Specification—In this, that Israel P. Guy, First Lieutenant 
Capt. Netherford’s Company E, 16th Ala. Regiment, having re- 
ceived pay from the Confederate States, did, on or about the 23d 
day of December, 1862, at Triune, Tenn., obtain leave to go, and 
was sent to the hospital at Chattanooga, Tenn., but instead of re- 
porting to the hospital at Chattanooga, Tenn., went to his home 
in Franklin county, Ala., and did not return until the 29th day 
of March, 1863. 
Charge 2d—Conduct prejudicial to good order and military 
discipline. 
The Specification is omitted, being substantially the same as 
that to the first Charge. 
FINDING. 
Of the Specification of the 1st Charge, Guilty. 
Of the 1st Charge, Not Guilty 
of desertion, but guilty of absence without leave. 
Of the Specification of the 2d Charge, Guilty. 
Of the 2d Charge, Guilty. 
SENTENCE. 
To be dismissed the service. 
XIII. The proceedings in this case having been laid before the 
Secretary of War, for the decision of the President, are ap- 
proved ; but in consideration of the recommendation of his bro- 
th«r officer*, and of the Commanding General, and their toetimo- 112 
ny to his previous good conduct, the sentence of dismissal from 
the service is remitted, but not the forfeiture of pay and allow- 
ances during the term of his unauthorized absence. 
KIV. At a General Court Martial, convened at the Head Quar- 
ters of Major General R. H. Anderson’s Division, by virtue of 
General Orders, No. 133, of 1862, Department of Northern Vir- 
ginia, was arraigned and tried: 
Private Grif. Nunnally, Co. C, 41st Va. Regiment, on the fol- 
lowing Charge: 
Charge—Desertion. 
The Specification is omitted. 
FINDING. 
Of the Specification, Guilty. 
Of the Charge, Guilty. 
SENTENCE. 
To be shot to death with musketry. 
XV. The proceedings in the above case having been laid be- 
fore the President, the following is his decision: 
That in consideration of facts appearing in the papers submit- 
ted on the appeal for a commutation of the sentence, the sentence 
is commuted to confinement with ball and chain, to be kept at 
hard labor, with only the necessary allowances, and without pay, 
until the expiration of his term of service. 
By order. S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 96. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, July 8, 1863. 
I. Soldiers not deemed subjects for discharge under paragraph 
IV, General Orders, No. 69, current series, because of their be- 
ing fit for service in the staff departments of the army, will be 
recommended by the Board of Examiners to the General com- 
manding the department or army, fur detail in the Medical De- 
partment, as nurses, guards, &c., to relieve, as far as practicable, 
able bodied soldiers fit for duty in the field ; or if specially fit for 
duty in another staff department, they will be recommended for 
detail in such department. 
II. Soldiers detailed under these provisions will, when fit for 
field duty, be relieved and sent to their commands. 
III. Paragraph X, General Orders, No. 69, current series* 
having in some instances been evaded, is so far amended as to 
prohibit medical officers from extending leaves of absence to offi- 
cers or iurloughs to men. They can only certify to the disability, 
and recommend such extensions. IV. Commutation for rations to men upon furlough, will not 
be paid until they rejoin their commands. 
V. Rations will be issued to discharged men delayed at way 
hospitals. By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 97. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, July 9, 1863. 
I. Before a General Court Martial, convened at the Camp of 
Major General R. H. Anderson’s Division, by virtue of General 
Orders, No. 133, of le62, from Head Quarters Department of 
Northern Virginia, was arraigned and tried j 
Private C. Edgeworth, Company E, 3d Ga. Regiment, upon the 
following Charges: 
Charge \st, - - Violation of the 52d Article of Wa r 
Charge 2d, - - Disobedience of orders. 
(The Specifications being lengthy, are omitted.) 
Finding. 
Of the Specification of the 1st Charge, - Guilty. 
Of the 1st Charge, Guilty. 
Of the Specification of the 2d Charge, - - - Guilty, 
Of the 2d Charge, Guilty, 
SENTENCE. 
To be shot to death with musketry, 
The proceedings in the above case having been laid before the 
Secretary of War, for the decision of the President, the following 
order is made: 
The 1st Charge is improperly stated to be, “Violation of the 
52d Article of War.” In consideration of which, and of affida- 
vits tending to explain the circumstances which led to his convic- 
tion, and the petition of the non-commissioned officers and pri- 
vates of his company, of the ofiicers of his regiment, and the 
commanding officer of his division, bearing testimony to the gal- 
lantry displayed by Private Edgeworth at Malvern Hill, where 
he was wounded, and at the second battle of Manassas, the sen- 
tence is remitted. 
Private Edgeworth will be released from confinement, and re- 
turned to duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General, 114 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 98. 
Adj’t and Insp’h Gbn’l's Office, 
Richmond, July 20, 1863. 
I. All white male residents of the Confederate States, between 
the ages of eighteen and forty-five, not exempted by law, and not 
already in the service, will be enrolled. Persons liable to enroll- 
ment may be enrolled wherever they may be found. 
II. The 1st paragraph of General Orders, No. 86, current se- 
ries, is so amended as to read as follows: 
“ Companies, battalions and regiments composed of persons not 
within the age of conscription (eighteen and forty-five), will be 
accepted as volunteers, throughout the Confederacy, under the 
net of August 21st, 1861, No. 229, for looal defence and special 
service.” Those persons belonging to such organizations, who 
are of conscript age, and neither exempted by law nor already in 
the service, will be discharged and reported to the bureau of con- 
scription lor enrollment. 
III. The following regulation will be in addition to those here- 
tofore published in regard to substitutes: 
Hereafter every person furnishing a substitute in accordance 
with existing regulations, shall become liable to and be immedi- 
ately enrolled for military duty, upon the loss of the services of 
the substitute furnished by him, from any cause other than the 
casualties of war, By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 99. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, July 21, 1863. 
I. The following schedules of prices for articles named there- 
in, adopted by commissioners appointed pursuant to law, for the 
State of Virginia, are announced for the information of all con- 
cerned ; and the special attention of officers and agents of the 
government is directed thereto : 
Richmond, July 18, 1863, 
Hon. Jas. A. Seddon, Sec’y of War. 
Sir—The Commissioners appointed under section 5th, of the 
bill recently passed by the Confederate Congress, regulating im- 
pressments, being required to agree upon and publish a schedule 
of prices every two months, or oftener, if they should deem it 
proper, in accordance with the foregoing requisition, we respect- 
fully lay before you the following schedules of prices, marked A 
and B, for the ensuing month. Owing to the difficulty of obtain- ing satisfactory information as to pork, we hare postponed the 
appraisement till our next assessment. 
Mr. Wm. B. Harrison was again invited to act as third com- 
missioner ; and it is proper to add that the schedules of appraise- 
ment received the unanimous approval of the commissioners. 
The following schedules present the maximum prices to be paid 
for the articles appraised, at all cities and usual places of sale, and 
when impressed elsewhere, the same prices are to be paid elsewhere, 
less the cost of transportation to the city or usual place of sale to 
which the article would go ordinarily for sale from that neigh- 
borhood, or less the cost of transportation to the point at which 
the government needs the article, and wishes it to be sent: Pro- 
vided, that in no case the amount deducted for transportation as 
above shall exceed 25 cents per bushel for grain, and 25 cents per 
cwt. for long forage, flour, bacon, iron, &c. In addition to the 
established price of transportation, the government to pay all 
legal tolls, and, where farmers cannot procure nails for baling 
forage, government to furnish the same at cost, which will be de- 
ducted from th8 established price of baling: 
ARTICLE. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION • 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
1 Wheat, 
Prime, 
White, 
Pr bush of 
60 lbs. 
$ 5 00 
2 Flour, 
Good, 
Superfine, 
Prbarrel of 196 lbs. 
25 00 
3 Corn, 
Prime, 
White, 
Pr bush of 
56 lbs. 
4 00 
4 Unshelled corn, 
U 
it 
i» it 
56 lbs. 
3 95 
5 Corn meal, 
Good, 
it it 
50 lbs. 
4 20 
6 Rye, 
Prime, 
it it 
56 lbs. 
3 20 
7 Cleaned oats, 
“ 
ii it 
32 lbs. 
2 00 
8 Wheat bran, 
Good, 
ii ii 
17 lbs. 
50 
9 Shorts, 
t i 
ii ii 
22 lbs. 
70 
10 Brown stuff, 
ii 
ii it 
28 lbs. 
90 
11 Ship stuff, 
l< 
ti ti 
37 lbs. 
1 40 
12 Bacon, 
it 
Hog round, 
Per pound, 
1 00 
13 Salt pork, 
u 
it 
1 00 
14 Lard, 
\l 
1 00 
15 Horses, 
[1st cl’s 
Artillery. &c. 
Av'ge price pr head 
350 00 
16 Wool, 
Fair, 
Washed, 
Per pound, 
3 00 
17 Wool, 
Unwashed, 
V 
2 00 
18 Peas, 
Good, 
Per bush of 60 lbs. 
4 00 
19 Beans, 
“ 
ti 
« “ 
4 00 
20 Potatoes, 
ti 
Irish, 
ti 
4 00 
21 Potatoes, 
“ 
Sweet, 
ti 
5 00 
22 Onions, 
“ 
ti 
5 00 
23 Dried penches, 
Pealed, 
“ of 38 lbs. 
8 00 
Schedule A. Schedule A.—Contiuued. 
ARTICLE. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
24 Dried peaches, 
Good, 
Unpealed, 
Per bush of 38 lbs. 
$ 4 50 
25 Dried apples, 
44 
Pealed, 
“ of 28 lbs. 
3 00 
26 Hay, baled, 
U 
Timothy or 
clover, 
Orchard or 
Per 100 pounds, 
3 00 
27 Hay, baled, 
44 
herd grass, 
it it 
3 00 
28 Hay, irtibaled, 
4( 
Orchard or 
herd grass, 
tt 4. 
2 70 
29 Sh’f oats, baled, 
u 
tt 44 
4 00 
30 Sh’f oats, unb’d, 
31 Blade fodder, 
tt tt 
3 70 
baled, 
u 
it it 
3 00 
32 Blade fodder, 
unbaled, 
“ 
tt tt 
2 70 
33 Shucks, baled, 
It 
tt it 
2 00 
34 Shucks, unb’d, 
35 Wheat straw, 
4( 
a i( 
1 70 
baled, 
(4 
u (i 
1 00 
36 Wheat straw, 
unbaled, 
44 * 
tt It 
70 
37 Pasturage, 
Good, 
Interior, 
Per head pr month, 
3 00 
38 “ 
Sup’r, 
1 st r’te 
u tt 
4 00 
39 “ 
tt 
tt 14 
5 00 
40 “ 
Good, 
Near cities, 
tt ti 
5 00 
41 *' 
Sup’r, 
1st r’te 
u 
44 tt 
6 00 
42 “ 
tt 
tt (4 
7 00 
43 Salt, 
Good, 
Per bush of 50 lbs. 
5 00 
44 Soap, 
Per pound, 
4; 
40 
45 Candles, 
46 Vinegar, 
It 
HTallow, 
1 00 
it 
Cider, 
Per gallop, 
1 00 
47 Whiskey, 
“ 
Trade, 
3 00 
48 Sugar, 
It 
Brown, 
Per pound, 
1 00 
49 Molasses, 
Kew Orleans, 
Per gallon, 
8 00 
50 Rice, 
tt 
Per pound, 
20 
51 Coffee, 
tt 
Rio, 
3 00 
52 Tea, 
tt 
Trade, 
tt 
7 00 
53 Vinegar, 
tt 
Manufact’d, 
No. 1 quality, 
Per gallon, 
50 
54 Pig iron, 
“ 
Per ton, 
125 00 
55 Pig iron, 
(4 
No. 2 “ 
44 
110 00 
56 Pig iron, 
No. 3 “ 
n 
100 00 
57 Bloom iron, 
58 Smith’s iron, 
44 
Round, plate 
44 
180 00 
u 
»nd baq 
3RO 00 117 
ScnBDULK A—Continued. 
ARTICLE. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
59 Leather, 
Good, 
Harness, 
Per pound, 
$ 2 60 
60 
u 
Sole, 
“ 
2 40 
61 “ 
“ 
Upper, 
U 
2 80 
62 Beef cattle, 
a 
Gross weight. 
Per 100 pounds, 
16 00 
63 “ 
Sup’r, 
“ ■ “ 
u u 
18 00 
64 “ 
1st r’te 
a a 
it a 
20 00 
65 Sheep, 
Fair, 
Per head, 
30 00 
66 Army woollen 
cloth, $ yd. 
Uood, 
J 0 oz. per yd. 
Per yard, 
4 50 
67 Army woollen 
Pro rata as to 
cloth, 
U 
greater or less 
Width or weight, 
68 Army woollen 
cloth, 6 4 yd. 
u 
2C oz. per yd. 
Per yard, 
9 00 
69 Army woollen 
Pro rata as to 
cloth, 
a 
greater or less 
Width or weight, 
70 Flannels, £ 
a 
6 oz. per yd. 
Per yard, 
3 00 
71 Cotton shirt’g, £ 
u 
4 J yds. to lb. 
({ 
42 
72 “ “ i 
a 
3| yds. to lb. 
u 
50 
73 Cotton sheet- 
ings, 4-4, 
a 
3 yds. to lb. 
it 
60 
74 Cotton ozna- 
burgs, i, 
a 
6 oz. per lb. 
a 
60 
75 Cotton ozna- 
burgs, |, 
a 
8 oz. per lb. 
a 
70 
76 Cotton drills, 
u 
3 yds. to lb. 
u 
70 
77 Cotton shirting 
stripes, 
it 
3 yds. to lb. 
a 
70 
78 Cotton tent 
cloths, 
a 
10 oz. to yd. 
a 
87 
79 Cotton warps, 
“ 
* 
Per pound, 
1 63 
80 Army shoes, 
u 
Per pair, 
10 00 
81 Shoe thread, 
(4 
Per pound, 
2 00 
82 Wool socks for 
men, 
tt 
Per pair, 
1 25 
E. W. Hubard. 
Robert Gibboney. 
Wm. B. Harrison. 118 
Schedule B.—Hire of Labor, Teams, Wagons and Drivers. 
PRICE. 
1. Baling long forage, 
Per 100 lbs. 
$ 80 
2. Shelling and bagging corn, sacks fur- 
nished by the government, 
3. Hauling, . . . . 
“ 56 “ 
“ cwt. p. mile, 
05 
06 
4. Hauling grain, 
“ bush “ 
08 
5. Hire of two-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
“ Jay, 
u u 
10 00 
6. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
5 00 
7. Hire of four-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
u a 
13 00 
8. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
u ii 
6 50 
9. Hire of six-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
U <( 
16 00 
10. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
(C (( 
8 00 
11. Hire of laborer, rations furnished by- 
owner, .... 
u u 
2 00 
12. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
a u 
1 25 
13. Hire of same, rations furnished by 
owner, .... 
“ month, 
40 00 
14. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
« a 
20 00 
E. W. HuBARD, 
Robert Gibboney, 
Wm. B. Harrison. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 100. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office. 
Richmond, July 23, 1863. 
I. Before a Genera,! Court Martial, convened in the City of 
Richmond, by virtue of Special Orders, No. 23, current series, 
from Head Quarters Department of Henrico, was arraigned and 
tried: 
Private Z. M. Kent, 3d Company, Battalion of Washington 
Artillery, on the following charges: 
Charge lstf, - - Violation of the 20th Article of War. 
Charge 2d, - - Violation of the 52d Article of War. 
EINDING. 
Of the Specification of the 1st Charge, - Guilty. 
Of the 1st Charge, - Guilty. 
Of the Specification of the 2d Charge, - Guilty. 
Of the 2d Charge, - Guilty. 
SENTENCE. 
To confinement at hard labor for two years, in such penitentia- 
ry as may be designated by the Commander of the Department 
of Henrico, and to close confinement until such designation is 
made. 
The proceedings in the foregoing case having been laid before 
the Secietary of War, for the decision of the President, the fol- 
lowing order is made: 
Neither the 20th nor the 52d Article of War prescribes any duty 
to be performed or any act to be avoided, but simply announce 
punishments to be inflicted for certain offences. The charges are 
improperly laid. The proceedings are therefore set aside. Pri- 
vate Z. M. Kent will be released and returned to duty. 
II. Before a General Court Martial, convened at Chattanooga, 
Tennessee, by virtue of Special Orders, No. 69, from Head Quar- 
ters Army of Tennessee, was arraigned and tried: 
Capt. G. D. Mitchell, A. Q. M., upon the following Charges, 
viz: 
Charge lsf—Conduct to the prejudice of good order and military 
discipline. 
Specification \sU~In this, that be the said Capt. G. D. Mitchell, 120 
A. Q. M. (hospital Q. M. at Ringgold, Ga ,) failed to supply wood 
for the use of the hospitals at Ringgold, Ga. All this at or near 
Ringgold, Ga., between the 12th October and 20th November 
1862 
Specification 2d—In this, that he the said Capt. G.D. Mitchell, 
A. Q. M. (hospital Q. M. at Ringgold, Ga.,) tailed to procure ne- 
groes as servants for the hospitals at Ringgold, Ga., either by 
hiring or impressing, as required by an order from Gen. Bragg; 
which states, “ that if negroes cannot be hired, they must be 
pressed into service—free as well as slaves.” All this at or near 
Ringgold, Ga., between the 20th day of August 1862 and the 15th 
January 1863. 
Charge 2d, ----- Absence without leave. 
Specification ls<—In this, that he the said Capt. G. D. Mitchell. 
A. Q. M, (hospital Q. M. at Ringgold, Ga.,) did absent himself 
from his post, without authority, for three days. All this at or 
near Ringgold, Ga., between the 7th October and the 12th Octo- 
ber 1862. 
Specification 2d—In this, that he the said Capt. G D. Mitchell, 
A. Q. M. (hospital Q. M. at Ringgold, Ga.,) did absent himself 
from his post, without authority, for two days. All this at Ring- 
gold, Ga., between the 23d and 26th December 1862. 
Charge 3d, Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. 
Specification —In this, that the said Capt. G. D. Mitchell, 
A. Q M , was-drunk in the streets of Ringgold, Ga., on or about 
the 16th November, 1862. 
Specification 2d—In this, that the said Capt. G. D. Mitchell, 
A. Q. M., did walk through the streets of Ringgold, Ga., using 
profane language, and declaring that he could whip any man who 
had any thing against him, or words to that effect. 
Specification 3d—In this, that the said Capt. G. D. Mitchell, 
A. Q. M., did make charges and statements to Surgeon A. J. 
Ford, P. A. C. S., in writing, hereto annexed, against Surgeon 
Francis Thornton, P. A. C. S., all of which are false. AH this 
at Ringgold, Ga., on or about from the 16th to the 19th day of 
November, 1862. 
FINDING. 
Of the 1st Specification of 1st Charge, - - - Guilty, 
but attach no criminality thereto. 
Of the 2d Specification of the 1st Charge, - - Guilty, 
but attach no criminality thereto. 
Of the 1st Charge, ------ Not Guilty. 
Of the 1st Specification of the 2d Charge, - Guilty. 121 
Of the 2d Specification of the 2d Charge, - - Guilty. 
Of the 2d Charge, 2 Guilty. 
Of the 1st Specification of the 3d Charge, - Not Guilty. 
Of the 2d Specification of the 3d Charge, - - Guilty. 
Of the 3d Specification of the 3d Charge, - - Guilty, 
except as to the words “ all of.” 
Of the 3d Charge, ------ Guilty. 
SENTENCE. 
To be cashiered. 
The proceedings in the above case having been laid before the 
Secretary of War, for the order of the President, the following 
decision is made: 
The conduct of Capt. G. D. Mitchell, as exhibited by the record, 
was certainly reprehensible, but does not seem to have justified 
the finding and sentence. 
Conduct may be prejudicial to good order and military disci- 
pline, and deserve punishment, even to the extent of dismissal, 
without being scandalous or disgraceful, as is implied by the de- 
scription “ unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.” 
The sentence is remitted. 
III. Before the Military Court attached to the command of 
General Beauregard, was arraigned and tried : 
Capt. J. J. Maguire, Company K, Aiken’s Regiment Partisan 
Rangers, on the following Charges : 
Charge lstf—Conduct highly unofficerlike and prejudicial to good 
order and military discipline. 
Charge 2d, - - Knowingly making a false muster. 
FINDING. 
Of the 1st Specification of the 1st Charge, - - Guilty. 
Of the 2d Specification of the 1st Charge, - - Guilty. 
Of the 1st Charge, - Guilty. 
Of the Specification of the 2d Charge, - Guilty. 
Of the 2d Charge, ------- Guilty. 
SENTENCE. 
To be cashiered. 
The proceedings in the above case having been laid before the 
Secretary of War for the final order of the President, the follow- 
ing decision is made thereon : 122 
That in consideration of the inexperience of Capt. Maguire in 
matters of military detail, and of his good character, on the re- 
commendation of the members of the Military C"urt, before 
whom he was tried, and of his commanding officer, the sentence 
is remitted, and he will be released from arrest and return to 
duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 101. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, Jidy 25, 1863. 
I. Before the Military Court attached to the Corps of Lieut. 
Gen. Ewell, was arraigned and tried : 
Lieut. J. B. Counties, 21st Georgia Regiment, on the following 
Charges .• 
Charge lstf, - - • • - Drunkenness on duty. 
Charge 2d—Conduct to the prejudice of good order and military 
discipline. 
TINDING. 
Of the Specification of the 1st Charge, - Guilty. 
Of the 1st Charge, Guilty, 
Of the Specification of the 2d Charge, ... Gui ty. 
Of the 2d Charge, ....... Guilty. 
SENTENCE. 
To be cashiered. 
II. The proceedings in the above case having been laid before 
the Secretary of War, for the decision of the President, are ap- 
proved; but in consideration of the recommendation of the offi- 
cers of his regiment, and the brigade, division and departmental 
commanders, and their testimony to the previous good conduct of 
the accused, and their assurance that a repetition of the offence 
is not to be expected, the sentence is remitted, and Lieut. Coun- 
tiss will resume his sword. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General, GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 102. 
Adj’t and Insp'r Gxn’l’s Office, 
Eichmond, July 26, 1863. 
I. General Orders, No. 36, current series, is hereby revoked. 
II. The Superintendent bf the Nitre and Mining Bureau is 
authorized t© pay, from the funds appropriated for the expenses of 
said bureau, the actual traveling expenses of officers of the same 
on duty, under orders, in lieu of any commutation for the time, 
of rations and forage. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 103. 
Adj’t and Ihsp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Eichmond, July 27, 1863. 
I. When the supply of salt is adequate, and fresh meat is issued 
oftener than thrice a week, the salt ration will be fixed at three 
quarts to the hundred rations. 
II. Commanding officers have no authority to alter or fix the 
ration established by the Secretary of War. 
III. Quartermasters at supply depots will respect the requisi- 
tions made by quartermasters receiving taxes in kind, for grain 
packs. 
By order. 
S. COOPER. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 104. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’i/s Office, 
Eichmond, July 28, 1863. 
I. Officers of engineer troops having been selected for appoint- 
ment, with special reference to their qualifications as engineers, 
will he respected as such, and their duties, when serving in the 
field, camp or cantonment, will embrace all that are enumerated 
>n paragraph Ilf, General Orders, No, 90, current series, “as the 
duties of officers of engineers serving with armies of the Con- 
federate States." 124 
H. On the inarch engineer troops will serve as pioneers, con- 
structing and repairing roads and bridges, and removing impedi- 
ments to the advance of our forces, or delaying the enemy, by 
breaking up roads, destroying bridges, and otherwise obstructing 
his communications. They will also be employed in making ra- 
pid reconnoissances and surveys of the country occupied or march- 
ed over by the army; preparing sketches and maps of the roads 
and topographical features ; laying out camps, and entrenching 
military positions. During battle they will be held in reserve, 
and used as circumstances may demand, either in their special 
duties, or as infantry. Under the command of their officers, they 
may be employed in the construction of ovens for baking bread, 
and other works requiring mechanical skill, but not on mere 
police duty, or the like, unless connected immediately with their 
own organization : nor are they to be employed altogether on 
mere fatigue service—but, once instructed in the duties of the 
engineer soldier, they will be frequently employed in laying out 
works, and also in aiding and directing the labors of other troops 
detailed for their construction. 
III. Whenever practicable, engineer troops will be drilled and 
instructed in the duties of engineer soldiers, by battalions and 
regiments—and to this end, all the companies serving with an 
army will be habitually kept together: but such temporary as- 
signments of companies to divisions or otherwise, will he made 
by the Commanding General, as will, in his judgment, best com- 
port with the interests of the service. The Ordnance department 
will furnish light arms to these troops; but until they can be 
supplied, infantry muskets will he used. Entrenching tools and 
other implements will be issued by the Engineer department. 
IV. Each company of the engineer troops shall be provided by 
the Quartermaster’s department with at least two wagons and 
teams of four animals each, for transportation of company equi- 
page, entrenching tools and other implements; one ambulance 
or other light vehicle, with a team of two horses, for carrying 
surveying instruments, stationery, maps, drawing boards and 
other fixtures; and twelve additional horses, with saddles, bri- 
dles and harness, to be used by the officers and non-commission- 
ed officers in making rapid examinations of country, or for haul- 
ing materials needed for prompt repair and construction of 
bridges, roads and other works. 
V. When officers of the corps of engineers nnd of engineer 
troops are engaged on the same service, the senior officer present 
shall control in all questions relating to the location and construc- 
tion of defences, and to engineering works generally connected 
with the army, unless for special reasons it be decided otherwise by the commanding officer: but should the recommendations and 
plans of a junior officer be adopted, the directions of the com- 
mander will not be communicated through him to the senior en- 
gineer officer, whether of the corps or troops, but through the 
usual channel of orders. Officers of the corps of engineers will 
not assume the command of engineer troops. In all cases they 
will be under the command of their own officers. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 105. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen'i/s Office, 
Richmond, July 29, 1863. 
I. The following act and regulations are published for the infor- 
mation of the army : 
An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for an increase of the 
Quartermaster's and Commsssary Departments, approved February 
15 th, 1S62. ' 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact. 
That the act entitled an act to provide for an increase of the 
quartermaster’s and commissary departments, approved February 
fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be and the same is 
hereby amended, by striking oul the proviso at the end of the 
same, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: ‘Provided, 
that no quartermaster, assistant quartermaster, commissary or 
assistant commissary be authorized to employ as a clerk any one 
liable to military service: and the commanding officer of quarter- 
masters, assistant quartermasters, commissaries or assistant com- 
missaries,-may detail from the ranks under his command such 
person or persons as may be necessary for service in the offices 
of said quartermasters, assistant quartermasters, commissaries 
and assistant commissaries: provided, that only disabled soldiers 
shall be so detailed while one can be found for such service.’” 
[Approved April 22d, 1863.] 
II. To carry into effect the provisions of the preceding act, 
officers of the quartermaster’s and commissary departments in 
the field, will report to the Commanding General of the army or 
department the number and names of the clerks employed by 
each, and whether they are soldiers or citizens. If soldiers, un- 
less their disability be shown by certificates of medical examin- 
ing boards, they will be promptly returned to their respective companies. If citizens, exemption from service must he exhibited, 
or they will be reported to the proper enrolling officer for con- 
scription. 
III. Similar reports will be made by officers of the quarter- 
master’s and commissary departments at posts, through the chiefs 
of their respective departments, to this office. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 106. 
Adj’t and Insp’t Gen Vs Office, 
Richmond, July 30, 1863. 
I. Before a General Court Martial, convened at Shelbyville, 
Tennessee, by virtue of Special Orders, No. 134, paragraph VII, 
current series, from Head Quarters Army of Tennessee, was ar- 
raigned and tried: 
Private John Whithead, Company F, 16th Tcnn. Regiment, 
OH the following Charge: 
Charge—Desertion. 
FINDING. 
Of the Specification, .... Guilty. 
Of the Charge, ..... Guilty. 
SENTENCE. 
To be shot to death with musketry. 
II. The proceedings in the above case having been laid before 
the Secretary of War, for the decision of the President, it is 
ordered, upon the application of the Commanding General, and 
upon the statement made by the Medical Director of the Army 
of Tennessee, that the sentence be remitted. Private Whithead 
will be released and returned to duty. 
III. The proceedings in the case of Private L. II. Toole, Com- 
pany E, 3d Oa. Pvegiment, convicted before a General Court 
Martial, convened at the camp of Major General R. H. Anderson, 
by virtue of General Orders, No. 133, of 1862, from Head 
Quarters of Northern Virginia, of abandoning his company and 
regiment, then on picket duty, and running away, while the 
enemy was bombarding the town of Fredericksburg, on the 11th 
December, 1862, and sentenced to be shot to death by musketry, 
having been laid before the Secretary of War, for the decision of the President, it is ordered, that in consideration of the addi- 
tional evidence of good conduct, referred to by the General of 
division, the previous gallant services and zeal of the prisoner, 
together with the punishment he has already suffered, the sen- 
tence is remitted, with the hope that this lesson will prevent a 
recurrence of like misconduct. The prisoner will be released and 
returned to duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 107. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen'l’s Office, 
Richmond, August 1, 1863. 
I. When conscripts have been sent to camps of instruction, or 
to regiments in the field, after being pronounced, by the district 
examining boards established under the law, fit for military ser- 
vice, they can thereafter be discharged only in accordance with 
the regulations prescribed for the discharge of soldiers from the 
army. 
II. In case there is reason to believe that any conscripts sent to 
camps instruction are disqualified, the commandant will order 
a medical examination, and forward a report, fully setting forth 
the grounds of disability, if found to exist, through the Bureau 
of Conscription, to the Surgeon General, for his approval, and 
for final action by the War Department. 
III. Regimental officers have no discretion but to receive and 
take up on their rolls conscripts duly assigned them under the 
provisions of General Orders, No. 82, of 1862, from this office. 
The question of discharge arises subsequently. 
IY. The conpensation of surgeons employed under the act of 
Congress, approved October 11, 1862, to examine persons enrol- 
led for military duty, will be $5 per day for each day they are 
actually engaged in making such examinations, and will be paid 
upon their certified accounts, by the Quartermaster of the near- 
est camp of instruction. This order will take effect from the 
20th February last. 
V. General Officers who are provided with aids de-camp 
allowed by law, should they find it necessary to accept super- 
numerary or volunteer aids, must only receive those exempt from 
military service. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 108. 
Adj't and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, August 4th, 1863. 
The following acts are published for the information of the 
army: 
An Act to provide for Transportation of Persons who have been mus- 
tered into the Service for the War. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
That non-commissioned officers and privates, who have been mus- 
tered into service for the war, and to whom furloughs may be 
granted for not more than sixty days, shall be entitled to trans- 
portation home and back : provided, that this allowance shall 
only be made once during the term of enlistment of such non- 
commissioned officers and privates." [Approved February 7, 
1863.] 
An Act tl amend an Act for the establishment and organisation of a 
General Staff for the Army of the Confederate States. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate Stales of America do enact, 
That from and after the passage of this act, t. e rank, pay and al- 
lowances attached to the office of Quartermaster Genera1 of 
the army of the Confederate States, shall be those of a Briga- 
dier General in the provisional army." [Approved Match 20, 
An Act to prevent the absence of Officers and Soldiers without leave. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
That no officer or soldier of the army shall receive pay for any 
period during which he may be absent without leave, or beyond 
the leave granted, from competent authority, according to the 
regulations of the army : provided, that this restriction shall not 
affect the sick or wounded in hospitals. 
Sec. 2. In order to enforce the requirements of the foregoing 
section, it is hereby made the duty of commanding officers of 
companies to state upon the muster and pay rolls of their com- 
panies the length of time any officer or soldier has been absent 
therefrom, without leave of competent authority, since the pre- 
vious payment, when the deduction of pay for such absence will 
bo made by the quartermaster from the amount otherwise due 
the officer or soldier ; and any commander of a company who 
shall fail to note such absence on the muster and pay rolls of the 
company shall be required to refund to the government the 
amount forfeited by such absent officer or soldier, unless it shall 
already have been received from the officer or soldier so absent. 
Sbc. 3. Officers shall certify upon honor on their pay accounts 129 
•whether they have or have not been absent, without leave by 
competent authority, within the time for which they claim pay ; 
and if absent without leave, they shall state in their certificates 
the time and period of such absences. In like manner, com- 
manding officers of companies shall certify on honor on their 
pay accounts that they have stated fully and correctly on the 
muster and pay rolls of their companies the length of time each 
officer and soldier ef the company has been absent without leave 
since the last payment of the company. 
Sec. 4. That this act shall not be construed to relieve any offi- 
cer or private from any other penalty to which he may be liable 
by existing laws or regulations.” [Approved April 16,1863.J 
An Act explanatory of an Act entitled an Act to autho. ize the Presi- 
dent to accept and place in the service certain regiments and battal- 
ions heretofore raised, approved 11 th October, 1862. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact 
That the second section of the act entitled an act to authorize the 
President to accept and place in the service certain regiments 
and battalions heretofore raised, approved on the 11th day of Oc- 
tober, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, 
shall not be so construed as to authorize any general officer to ap- 
point any of the officers of said regiments and battalions. That 
said regiments and battalions shall have the right within ninety 
days, on a day to be fixed by the commander of the brigade for 
that purpose, to elect such officers', as volunteers have heretofore 
been authorized to elect: provided, that this act shall not apply 
to any case where such office has heretofore been filled by elec- 
tion.” J Approved April 16, 1863.] 
An Act to repeal certain clauses of an Act entitled an Act to exempt 
certain persons from Military Service, fyc., approved Oct. 11 th, 1862. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
That so much of the act approved October eleventh, one thousand 
eight hundred and sixty-two, as exempts from military service, 
‘one person, either as agent, owner or overseer, on each planta- 
tion on which one white person is required to be kept by the laws 
or ordinances of any State, and on which there is no white male 
adult not liable to military service, and in States having no such 
law, one person as agent, owner or overseer, on each plantation 
of twenty negroes, and on which there is no white male adult 
not liable to military serviceand also the following clause in 
said act, to wit: ‘and furthermore, for additional police for 
every twenty negroes, on two or more plantations, within five 
miles of each other, and each having less than twenty negroes,’ 
and on which there is no white male adult not liable to military duty, one person, being the oldest of the owners or overseers on 
Buch plantations/ be and the same are hereby repealed. 
Sec. 2. For the police and management of slaves, there shall be 
exempted one person on each farm or plantation, the sole pro- 
perty of a minor, a person of unsound mind, a feme sole, or a 
person absent from home in the military or naval service of the 
Confederacy, on which there are twenty or more slaves: pro- 
vided the person so exempted was employed, and acting as an 
overseer previous to the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight 
hundred and sixty-two, and there is no white male adult on said 
farm or plantation, who is not liable to military duty, which fact 
shall be ve ified by the affidavits of said person and two respec- 
table citfzens, and shall be filed with the enrolling officer: and 
provided the owner of such favm or plantation, his agent or legal 
representative, shall make affidavit and deliver the same to the 
enrolling officer, that, after diligent effort, no overseer can be 
procured for such farm or plantation not liable to military duty: 
provided, further, that this clause shall not extend to any farm or 
plantation on which the negroes have been placed by division 
from any other farm or plantation since the eleventh day of Oc- 
tober, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two: provided, fur- 
ther, that for every person exempted as aforesaid, and during the 
period of such exemption, there shall be paid annually into the 
public treasury, by the owners of such slaves, the sum of five 
hundred dollars. 
Sec. 3. Such other persons shall be exempted as the President 
shall be satisfied ought to be exempted in districts of country de- 
prived of white or slave labor indispensable to the production of 
grain or provisions necessary for the support of the population 
remaining at home, and also on account of justice, equity and 
necessity. 
Sec. 4. In addition to the State officers exempted by the ret of 
October eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, 
there shall also be exempted all State officers whom the Governor 
of any State may claim to have exempted for the due adminis- 
tration of the government and lawrs thereof; but this exemption 
shall not continue in any State after the adjournment of the next 
regular session of its legislature, unless such legislature shall by 
law exempt them from military duty in the provisional army of 
the Confederate States/' [Approved May 1, 1863.] 
An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to organize Military Courts to 
attend the Army of the Confederate Stales in the field, and. to define 
the powers of s lid Courts, approved Oct. Oth, 18t2. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate Stales of America do enact, 
That in addition to one military court to attend each army corps 
in the field, as now authorized by an act entitled an act to or- 131 
ganize military courts to attend the army of the Confederate States 
in the field, and to define the power of said courts, approved Oc- 
tober ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, one military court 
shall be organized in each of such military departments as, in 
the judgment of the President, the public exigencies may re- 
quire ; to be organized in the manner and with powers prescribed 
in the act of which this is amendatory.” [Approved May 1, 
1863.| 
An Act to continue and amend the third section of an Act supplemen- 
tary to an Act concerning the Pay and Allowance due to deceased sol- 
diers, approved February 15/A, 1862, and to provide for the prompt 
settlement of Claims for Arrearages of Pay, allowance and bounty 
due deceased Officers and Soldiers. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
That the third section of an act entitled an act supplementary to 
an act concerning the pay and allowance due to deceased sol- 
diers, approved February 15th, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 
and to provide for the prompt settlement of claims for arrearages 
of pay, allowance and bounty due deceased officers and soldiers, 
be continued of force until otherwise provided by Congress.” 
[Approved May 1, 1863.] 
Joint Resolutions on the subject of Retaliation. 
“ Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 
In response to the message of the President, transmitted to Con- 
gress at the commencement of the present session, that in the 
opinion of Congress, the commissioned officers of the enemy ought 
not to be delivered to the authorities of the respective States, as 
suggested in the said message, but all captives taken by the Con- 
federate forces ought to be dealt with and disposed of by the Con- 
federate government. 
Sec. 2. That, in the judgment of Congress, the proclamations 
of the President of the United States, dated respectively Septem- 
ber twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and January 
first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and the other measures of 
the government of the United States and of its authorities, com- 
manders and forces, designed or tending to emancipate slaves in 
the Confederate States, or to abduct such slaves, or to incite them 
to insurrection, or to employ negroes in war against the Confede- 
rate States, or to overthrow the institution of African slavery, 
and bring on a servile war in these States, would, if successful, 
produce atrocious consequences, and they are inconsistent with 
the spirit of those usages which in modern warfare prevail 
among civilized nations; they may, therefore, be properly and 
lawfully repressed by retaliation. 
Sec. 3. That in every case, wherein during the present war, 
any violation of the laws or usages of war among civilised na- 132 
tlons shall be, or has been, done and perpetrated by those acting 
under the authority of the Government of the United States on 
the persons or property of citizens of the Confederate States, or 
of those under the protection or in the land or naval service of 
the Confederate States, or of any State of the Confederacy, the 
President of the Confederate States is hereby authorized to cause 
full and complete retaliation to be made for every such violation, 
in such manner and to such extent as he may think proper. 
Sec. 4. That every white person, being a commissioned officer, 
or acting as such, who, during the present war, shall command 
negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or 
who shall arm, train, organize or prepare negroes or mulattoes 
for military service against the Confederate States, or who shall 
voluntarily aid negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise, 
attack or conflict, in such service, shall be de’emed as inciting 
servile insurrection, and shall, if captured, be put to death, or be 
otherwise punished r.t the discretion of the court. 
Sec. 5. Every person, being a commissioned officer, or acting 
as such in the service of the enemy, who shall, during the pre- 
sent war, excite, attempt to excite, or cause to be excited, a ser- 
vile insurrection, or who shall incite, or cause to be incited, a 
slave to rebel, shall, if captured, be put to death, or be otherwise 
punished at the discretion of the court. 
Sec. 6. Every person charged with an offence punishable under 
the preceding resolution, shall, during the present war, be tried 
before the military court attached to the army or corps by the 
troops of which he shall have been captured, or by such other 
military court as the President may direct, and in such manner 
and under such regulations as the President shall prescribe, and 
after conviction, the President may commute the punishment in 
such manner and on such terms as he may deem proper. 
Sec. 7. All negroes and mulattces who shall be engaged in 
war, or be taken in arms against the Confederate States, or shall 
give aid or comfort to the enemies of the Confederate States, 
Bhall, when captured in the Confederate States, be delivered to 
the authorities of the State or States in which they shall be cap- 
tured, to be dealt with according to the present or future laws of 
such State or States/' [Approved May 1, 1863.] 
An Act to provide for the appointment of Military Storekeeper in the 
Provisional Army of the Confederate States. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
That the President be authorized to appoint as many military 
storekeepers of ordnance in the provisional army of the Confede- 
rate States as may be deemed necessary, not to exceed iij all 
eight storekeepers, four with the play and allowance of ft captain 133 
of infantry, and four with the pay and allowance of a first lieu 
tenant of infantry. 
Sec. 2. Beit further enacted, That the military storekeepers of 
the first class so appointed, shall be required to give bonds in 
the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and those of the second class 
in the sum of ten thousand dollars, when charged with the dis- 
bursement of funds. This act shall be in force from and after 
its pissage : provided, that no one shall be appointed under its 
provisions except officers without commands, or officers or pri- 
vates who have performed meritorious services in the field, or 
have become incapacitated by wounds or Bickness for active ser- 
vice.” | Approved May 1, 1863.] 
An Act to prevent Fraud in the Quartermaster's and Commissary De- 
partments, and the obtaining, under false pretence, Transportation 
for Private Property. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enacit 
That no officer charged with the safe-keeping, transfer or dis- 
bursement of public moneys, shall convert to his own use, or in- 
vest in any kind of property or merchandize, on private account, 
or lend, with or without interest, any portion of the public mo- 
neys entrusted to him for safe-keeping, transfer, disbursement, or 
any other purpose. 
Sec. 2. That no officer charged with the safe-keeping, transfer 
or disbursement of public moneys, or charged with or assigned 
to the duty of purchasing for the go ernment or any department 
thereof shall buy, trade, traffic or speculate in, either directly or 
indirectly, for the purpose of gain to himself or others, by resale 
or otherwise, any article of food or clothing, or material of vshich 
the same is made, or which enters into or constitutes a part of 
the same, or any material of war or article whatsoever, which is 
or may be required to be purchased for the use of the army or 
the prosecution of the war. 
Sec. 3. No officer shall take a receipt in blank for any article 
or articles purchased by him for the government, or any depart- 
ment thereof; and every receipt shall set forth the true amount 
paid, and on what account; and when payment is made on ac- 
count of property purchased, the receipt shall set forth the name 
of the person from whom such property was purchased, and the 
place of his residence, the thing or things purchased, by items, 
number, weight or measurement, as may be customary in the 
particular cage, the price thereof, and the date of payment. 
Sec. 4. No officer who is in charge of transportation, or who 
is empowered to grant the same, shall forward by government 
conveyance, or at the expense of government, or to the exclusion 
<St delay of government freight, any commodity or property of 134 
any kind, unless the same belongs to the government, or some 
department thereof, except as authorized by law. 
Sec. 5. Any officer who shall violate any provision in the fore- 
going sections, shall, upon a conviction before a court martial or 
military court, be cashiered, and placed in the ranks as a private 
to serve during the war: provided, that nothing herein contained 
shall impair the civil remedy which the government may have 
against any officer or his sureties for fraud, peculation or mis- 
application of the public moneys entrusted to him by the govern- 
ment. 
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That any person in the employ- 
ment or service of the government as aforesaid, and all other 
persons coming within the purview of this act, who shall violate 
any of the provisions of the foregoing sections, shall be liable 
to indictment, and fined in a sum not less than one thousand dol- 
lars, and imprisoned not less t an one year nor longer than five 
years, to be imposed by the judge or jury trying the cause, ac- 
cording to the course of judicial proceeding in force in the seve. 
ral States: provided the provisions of this act shall in no wise 
interfere with or impair the civil remedy which’the government 
may have against any of said officers or their securities or em- 
ployees for fraud, peculation or misapplication of the moneys en- 
trusted to them respectively,by the Confederate States: provided 
also, that all conservators of the peace, who, by the laws of the 
several States, have jurisdiction to commit or bind over offenders 
for breaches of the criminal laws of the State in which they may 
reside, shall have power to commit or bind over, in a sufficient 
recognizance, offenders against the provisions of this law, to ap- 
pear at the next term of the district court of the Confederate 
States, within the jurisdiction of which the offence was commit- 
ted, for trial, in the same manner and under the same rules as if 
such preliminary trial were had before the judge of such district 
court; and the judges of the Confederate courts having 
tion of the offences defined by this act shall, at the commence- 
ment of each session of their respective courts, give this act and 
its provisions especially in charge to the different grand juries.” 
[Approved May 1, 1863. | 
Jin Act to pny Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates not le' 
gaily mustered into the service of the Confederate States, for Services 
actually performed. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
That all officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of any 
legally constituted military organization, which may have been 
actually received into the service of the Confederate States by 
any general officer thereof, but were never legally mustered into 
service, in consequence of the loss of the muster rolls of such military organization, shall be entitled to receive pay from the 
time they were so received: provided the fact of their having 
been so received into the service, and the time they served, is 
duly proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, under 
rules to be. prescribed by him.” [Approved May 1, 1863.j 
Jin Act 10 provide for the Transfer of persons serving in the Army to 
the Navy. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
That all persons serving in the land forces of the Confederate States, 
who shall desire to be transferred to the naval service, and whose 
transfer as seamen or ordinary seamen shall be applied for by 
the Secretary of the Navy, shall be transferred from the land to 
the naval service : provided, that nothing in this act shall be so 
construed as to alter or repeal any law now in force limiting the 
number of seamen.” [Approved May 1, 1863.] 
An Act regulating the granting of Furloughs and Discharges in 
Hospitals. 
“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
That sick, wounded and disabled soldiers in hospitals shall be en- 
titled to furloughs and discharges, under the following rules and 
regulations : In places where there are three or more hospitals, 
three surgeons in charge of hospitals, or divisions in hospitals, 
shall constitute a board of examiners for the hospitals to which 
they belong, whose duty it shall be, twice in each week, to visit 
said hospitals, and examine applicants for furloughs and dis- 
charges ; and in all cases where they shall find an applicant for 
furlough unfit for military duty, either from disease or wounds, 
and likely so to remain for thirty days or upwards, they shall 
grant a furlough for such time as they shall deem him unfit for 
duty, not to exceed sixty days. Said board shall keep a secretary 
or clerk, who shall issue all furloughs by order of the board, and 
shall specify therein the time of furlough, the place of the resi- 
dence of the soldier, his company, regiment and brigade. 
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That no further regulation shall 
be required of the soldier, and no passport required other than 
bis furlough. 
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said board may recom- 
mend discharges, stating the ground thereof, which, when ap- 
proved by the Surgeon General or the General commanding the 
army or department to which the soldier belongs, shall entitle 
him to a discharge and transportation to the plaee of his enlist- 
ment or residence. 
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That in places where there are 
but two hospitals, two surgeons in charge of a hospital or division 
shall constitute a board for the purposes aforesaid ; and in places 136 
where there is but one, the surgeon in charge, and two assistant 
surgeons, if there be two, and if not, then one, shall constitute a 
board for the purpose aforesaiu, and may furlough and recom- 
mend discharges as aforesaid : provided, that no furlough shall 
be granted under the provisions of this act, if, in the opinion of 
the board, the life or convalescence of the patien.t would be en- 
dangered thereby. 
Sec. 5. The house surgeon in all hospitals shall see each pa- 
tient under his charge once every day.” [Approved May 1, 
1863.1 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 109. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, August 11, 1863. 
I. A general pardon is given to all officers and men within 
the Confederacy, now absent without leave from the army, who 
shall (within twenty days from the publication of the address of 
the President in the State in which the absentees may then be) 
return to their posts of duty. 
II. All men who have been accused or convicted, and under- 
going epDtence for absence -without leave, or desertion, except 
only those who have been twice convicted of desertion, will be 
returned to their respective commands for duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 110. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, August 12, 1863, 
I. The officers of ordnance duties in the provisional army, ap- 
pointed under the Acts of Congress of April 21st and Septem- 
ber 16th, 1862, will, until further orders, be distributed into 
grades, as authorized by the latter act, as follows: 4 lieutenant 
colonels, 9 majors, 65 captains, 40 first lieutenants, and 32 sec- 
ond lieutenants. Appointments to these grades will be made on 
the report of the Chief of Ordnance. Those officers serving in 
the field will also be reported by the Generals commanding the 
army or department prior to appointment. 
II. Ordnance officers on duty in the field will, as far as prac- 
ticable, be assigned to command according to rank, as follows : 
lieutenant colonels to armies, majors to army corps, captains te departments and divisions, and lieutenants to brigades. No 
claim to promotion, however, will be recognized in consequence 
of assignment to any command. 
III. Two ordnance officers, not above the rank of captain, may 
be allowed as assistants to the chief ordnance officer of an army, 
and one, not above the rank of first lieutenant, to the chief ord- 
nance officer of an army corps. One assistant, not above the 
rank of second lieutenant, may also be allowed to the chief ord- 
nance officer of a department, when absolutely necessary, upon 
application to the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. 
IV. The designation of the chief ordnance officer attached to 
commands will correspond with the designation of such com- 
mands : as chief ordnance officer of the army of ; chief 
ordnance officer of army corps; chief ordnance officer of 
• department; ordnance officer of division ; ord- 
nance officer of brigade. 
By order. 
S. COOPER. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 111. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, August 13, 1863. 
Quartermasters who are purchasing supplies, and who have 
means of transportation at their command, are directed to assist, 
as far as practicable, the quartermasters receiving the tax in 
kind, in transporting the supplies collected from their depots 
of collection, to the issuing depots of the army. They will also 
permit their storehouse to be used for the storage of articles of 
the produce tax. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 112. 
Adj’t and Insf’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, August 15, 1863. 
I. A Court of Enquiry having been convened at Richmond on 
the 29th of July, 1863, pursuant to paragraph XVII, Special 
Orders, No. 176, Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, cur- 
rent series, to examine into certain charges preferred against 
Major William Norris, Chief of the Signal Corps, and having 
made the required examination, the report of facts proven, with the opinion of the Court thereon, is published for the informa- 
tion of all concerned. 
REPORT OF FACTS. 
1. Major Norris was not intoxicated on the 31st of May, 18C3. 
2. He did not.reveal the-alphabet of the signal corps on the 
31st of May, 1863. 
3. The enemy knew or had opportunity to know the locality 
of the signal stations between City Point and Clairmont before 
the 31st of May, 1863, none of which were disclosed to him by 
Major Norris on that day. 
4. The dispatch shown to Captain Mulford by Major Norris 
was a private dispatch, conveying a report of successes at Vicks- 
burg. 
5. There was no improper intercourse between Major Norris 
and any officers or persons in the service of the enemy, on the 
31st of May, 1863. 
OPINION. 
The Court is of opinion that the charges Jn this case have 
been loosely made, and without due care and investigation, and 
should not be further entertained. The Court is also of opinion 
that the private and official character of Major Norris remains 
unaffected by this proceeding. 
II. The charges, of which Major Norris has been thus fully 
exonerated by the Court, were made without that consideration 
which their serious character demanded, and in a manner that 
subjects the prosecutor, Lieut. R. A. Forbes, 2d Company Inde- 
pendent Signal Corps, to the grave censure of the department. 
The personal and official character of an officer is not to be light- 
ly assailed. The accuser will be held to support his charges by 
evidence—and in an especial manner is he required to avoid 
creating the impression that the loose, unofficial statements of 
others are facts within his own knowledge. The greatest care 
and consideration should be manifested by those preferring 
charges, particularly when the reputation, personal and profes- 
sional,, of a superior, is called in question. 
III. The Court of Enquiry, of which Lieut. Col. George 
Deas, Adjutant General’s department, was president, is hereby 
dissolved. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 113. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GrnVs Oifici, 
Richmond, August 18, 1863. 
I. Officers receiving volunteers from those liable to conscrip- 
tion, will in no case grant furloughs for more than ten days to 
such volunteers, before entering on active service. 
II. Every man liable to conscription, volunteering before en- 
rollment, will report himself, and the company in which he vol- 
unteers, and likewise be reported by his captain to the comman- 
dant of conscripts for the State, within ten days after his act of 
volunteering—otherwise he will be held subject to enrollment 
and assignment. 
By order. S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 114. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, August 22,1863. 
I. Permanent posts and depots established by the quartermas- 
ter’s department, are placed under the special control of the 
Quartermaster General, though subject to the inspection of the 
commanding officer of the department in which they are located. 
II. Changes in the assignment of officers stationed at such 
posts and depots, will be made only through orders from his office ; 
and no change in the location of posts and depots will be or- 
dered by the department eommander, except under circum- 
stances of strong emergency : in which cases a report of such 
changes, with the reason therefor, will be transmitted to the 
Adjutant and Inspector General’s office. 
By order. S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 115. 
Adj’t and Insf’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, August 24, 1863. 
I. The following schedules of prices for articles named there- 
in, adopted by commissioners appointed pursuant to law, for the 
State of Virginia, are announced for the information of all con- 
cerned ; and the special attention of officers and agents of the 
government is directed thereto : 
Richmond, August 20, 1863. 
Hon. Jas. A. Seddon, Sec’g of War. 
Sir—The Commissioners appointed under section 5th, of the 
bill recently passed by the Confederate Congress, regulating im- 
pressments, being required to agree upon and publish a schedule 
of prices every two months, or of’tener, if they should deem it proper, in accordance with the foregoing requisW >n, we respect- 
fully lay before you the following schedules of 'ices, marked A 
and B, for the ensuing month. Owing to the d fficulty of obtain- 
ing satisfactory information as to pork, we cave postponed the 
appraisement till our next assessment. 
The following schedules present the maxi nura prices to be paid 
for the articles appraised, at all cities and usual places of sale, and 
when impressed elsewhere, the same prices are to be paid elsewhere, 
less the cost of transportation to the city or usual place of sale to 
which the article would go ordinarily for sale from that neigh- 
borhood, or less the cost of transportation to the point at which 
the government needs the article, and wishes it to be sent: Pro- 
vided, that in no case the amount deducted for transportation as 
above shall exceed 25 cents per bushel for grain, and 25 cents per 
cwt. for long forage, flour, bacon, iron, &c. In addition to the 
established price of transportation, the government to pay all 
legal tolls, and, where farmers cannot procure nails for baling 
forage, government to furnish the same at cost, which will be de- 
ducted from the established price of baling: 
ARTICLE. 
H 
3 
◄ 
0 
O' 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
TRICE. 
1 Wheat, 
Prime, 
White, 
Superfine, 
Pr bush of 60 lbs. $ 5 00 
2 Flour, 
Good, 
Prbarrel of 196 lbs. 
25 00 
3 Corn, 
Prime, 
Wh’eoryellw 
Pr bush of 56 lbs. 
4 00 
4 Unshelled corn, 
U 
u u 
“ 56 lbs. 
3 95 
5 Corn tneal, 
Good, 
“ “ 50 lbs. 
4 20 
6 Rye, 
Prime, 
“ “ 56 lbs. 
3 20 
7 Cleaned oats, 
“ 
“ “ 32 lbs. 
2 00 
8 Wheat bran, 
Good, 
“ “ 17 lbs. 
50 
9 Shorts, 
U 
“ “ 22 lbs. 
70 
10 Brown stuff, 
C< 
“ “ 28 lbs. 
90 
11 Ship stuff, 
cc 
“ “ 37 lbs. 
1 40 
12 Bacon, 
u 
Hog round, 
Per pound, 
1 00 
13 Salt pork, 
U 
1 00 
14 Lard, 
(« 
1 00 
15 Horses, 
lstcl’s 
Artillery, &c. 
Av’ge price pr head 
350 00 
•16 Wool, 
Fair or 
Mer’o 
Washed, 
Per pound, 
3 00 
17 Wool, 
Fair or 
Mer’o 
Unwashed, 
It 
2 00 
18 Peas, 
Good, 
Per bush of 60 lbs. 
4 00 
19 Beans, 
U 
u u a 
4 00 
20 Potatoes, 
“ 
Irish, 
u 
4 00 
21 Potatoes, 
a 
Sweet, 
a 
5 OO 
Schedule A. 141 
Schedule A.—Continued. 
ARTICLE. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
22 Onions, 
Good, 
CC 
Per bush of 60 lbs. 
$ 5 
00 
23 Dried peaches, 
Pealed, 
“ of 38 lbs. 
8 
00 
24 Dried peaches, 
• C 
Unpealed, 
“ of 38 lbs. 
4 
50 
25 Dried apples, 
cc 
Pealed, 
“ of 28 lbs. 
3 
00 
26 Hay, baled, 
Timothy or 
27 Hay, baled, 
cc 
clover, 
Orchard or 
Per 100 pounds, 
3 
00 
cc 
herd grass, 
Orchard or 
cc cc 
3 
00 
28 Hay, unbaled, 
a 
herd grass, 
cc c; 
2 
70 
29 Sh’f oats, baled, 
cc 
cc cc 
4 
00 
30 Sh’f oats, unb’d, 
31 Blade fodder, 
cc 
cc cc 
3 
70 
baled, 
cc 
cc cc 
3 
00 
32 Blade fodder, 
unbaled, 
cc 
cc (c 
2 
70 
33 Shucks, baled, 
u 
cc cc 
2 
00 
34 Shucks, unb’d, 
35 Wheat straw, 
cc 
cc cc 
1 
70 
baled, 
cc 
cc cc 
1 
00 
36 Wheat straw, 
unbaled, 
cc 
cc cc 
70 
37 Pasturage, 
Good, 
Interior, 
Per head pr month, 
3 
00 
38 “ 
Sup’r, 
1st r’te 
cc 
CC cc 
4 
00 
39 “ 
cc 
cc cc 
5 
00 
40 “ 
Good, 
Near cities, 
(c cc 
5 
00 
41 “ 
Sup’r, 
cc 
(C cc 
6 
00 
42 “ 
1st r’te 
cc 
cc cc 
7 
00 
43 Salt, 
Good, 
Per bush of 50 lbs. 
5 
00 
44 Soap, 
CC 
Per pound, 
40 
45 Candles, 
Tallow, 
1 
00 
46 Vinegar, 
“ 
Cider, 
Per gallon, 
1 
00 
47 Whiskey, 
cc 
Trade, 
CC 
3 
00 
48 Sugar, 
u 
Brown, 
Per pound, 
1 
00 
49 Molasses, 
a 
N ew Orleans, 
Per gallon, 
8 
00 
50 Rice, 
cc 
Per pound, 
20 
51 Coffee, 
Rio, 
3 
00 
52 Tea, 
u 
Trade, 
CC 
7 
00 
53 Vinegar, 
cc 
Manufact’d, 
No. 1 quality, 
Per gallon, 
50 
54 Pig iron, 
cc 
Per ton, 
125 
00 
55 Pig iron, 
“ 
No. 2 “ 
U 
110 
00 
56 Pig iron, 
a 
No. 3 “ 
100 
00 
57 Bloom iron, 
cc 
cc 
180 
00 142 
Schedule A—Continued. 
ARTICLE. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
58 Smith’s iron, 
Good, 
Round, plate 
$ 
CC 
and bar, 
Per ton, 
380 00 
59 Railroad iron, 
CC 
CC 
190 00 
60 Leather, 
cc 
Harness, 
Per pound, 
2 60 
61 “ 
u 
Sole, 
“ 
2 40 
62 “ 
Upper, 
CC 
2 80 
63 Beef cattle, 
lk 
Gross weight. 
Per 100 pounds, 
16 00 
64 “ 
Sup’r, 
CC CC 
Cc cc 
18 00 
65 “ 
1st r’te 
CC CC 
U cc 
20 00 
66 Sheep, 
Fair, 
Per head, 
30 00 
67 Army woollen 
cloth, i yd. 
Good, 
10 oz. per yd. 
Per yard, 
4 50 
68 Army woollen 
Pro rata as to 
cloth, 
CC 
greater or less 
Width or weight, 
69 Army woollen 
cloth, 6 4 yd. 
cc 
2C oz. per yd. 
Per yard, 
9 00 
70 Army woollen 
Pro rata as to 
cloth, 
cc 
greater or less 
Width or weight, 
71 Flannels, £ 
cc 
6 oz. per yd. 
Per yard, 
3 00 
72 Cotton shirt’g. £ 
C c 
4 J yds. to lb. 
“ 
42 
73 “ “ | 
cc 
3f yds. to lb. 
CC 
50 
74 Cotton sheet- 
ings, 4-4, 
cc 
3 yds. to lb. 
(c 
60 
75 Cotton ozna- 
burgs, £, 
CC 
6 oz. per yd. 
60 
76 Cotton ozna- 
burgs, 
cc 
8 oz. per yd. 
cc 
70 
77 Cotton drills, 
u 
3 yds. to lb. 
“ 
70 
78 Cotton shirting 
stripes, 
cc 
3 yds. to lb. 
cc 
70 
79 Cotton tent 
cloths, 
cc 
10 oz. to yd. 
cc 
87 
80* 
81 Cotton warps, 
CC 
Per pound, 
1 63 
82 Army shoes, 
(C 
Per pair, 
10 00 
83 Shoe thread, 
c( 
Per pound, 
2 00 
84 Wool socks for 
men, 
C' 
Per pair, 
1 25 
85 Mules, 
1 St r’te 
Wagon, kr. 
A v'e price pr head. 
300 no 
* On the above enumerated cotton cloths, pro rata as to greater 
or less width or weight. 143 
In assessing the average value of “ first class artillery and 
wagon horses at $350,” we designed that the term should be ac- 
cepted and acted upon accordng to its obvious common sense 
import. In other words, that horses should be selected, and then 
impressed accordingly as their working qualities and adaptation 
to army service, together with their intrinsic value, would war- 
rant a judicious purchaser in considering them as coming within 
the contemplation of the commissioners when they assessed the 
average value of such horses as the government needed, at $350. 
But cases might arise, however, when the public exigencies would 
be so urgent as to demand that al horses at hand should be im- 
pressed. Yet under ordinary circumstances, when family or ex- 
tra blooded horses, or brood mares of admitted high value are im- 
pressed, we respectfully suggest to the Secretary of War to have 
instructions forwarded to the impressing officers to propose and 
allow the owners to substitute in their stead such strong, sound 
and serviceable horses or mules as shall be considered and valued 
by competent and disinterested parties as first class artillery 
horses, or first rate wragon mules. 
The term ‘‘average value per head” was used in contradistinc- 
tion to a fixed and uniform price for each horse or mule. Wo 
supposed that in impressing a number of horses or mules, whe- 
ther owned by several persons, or one individual, that some 
might be estimated at $250, or even at less, and others at differ- 
ent advanced rates, according to their worth, up as high as $450, 
or above that amount—thus making an average value or price for 
a number of good, sound and efficient horses, $350 each, and 
mules $300 each. 
In illustration of our views, we will add, that a horse with 
only cne eye sound, might, in all other respects, be classed as a 
first rate artillery horse, yet the loss of one eye would justly and 
considerably curtail his value. So a horse from 10 to 18 years of 
age might be deemed in all other particulars as a first class artil- 
lery horse, but of course, however efficient or able to render good 
service for a year or so, yet his advanced age would justly and 
materially impair his’value. Any horse, however he may ap- 
proximate the standard of a first class artillery horse, must, ac- 
cording to deficiencies, fall below the maximum price; and as 
few comparatively exactly come up to the standard, and therefore 
are entitled to the maximum price, so of course in all other in- 
stances the price should be proportionately reduced, as imperfec- 
tions place them below the standard of first class, &c. 
• E. W. IIubard, 
Robert Gibboney, 
Commissioners for Fo, 144 
Schedule B.—Eire of Labor, Teams, Wagons and Drivers* 
QUANTITY & TIME. 
PHIC*. 
1. Baling long forage, 
Per 100 lbs. 
$ 30 
2. Shelling and bagging corn, sacks fur- 
nished by the government, . 
3. Hauling, . . . . 
“ 56 « 
“ cwt. p.mile, 
05 
06 
4. Hauling grain, 
“ bush “ 
03 
5. Hire of two-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
“ day> 
10 00 
6. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
« <C 
5 00 
7. Hir3 of four-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
a u 
13 00 
8. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
u u 
6 50 
9. Hire of six-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
U (C 
16 00 
10. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
cc u 
8 00 
11. Hire of laborer, rations furnished by 
owner, .... 
u a 
2 00 
12. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
government, .... 
u «r 
1 25 
13. Hire of same, rations furnished by 
owner, .... 
“ month, 
40 00 
14. Hire of same, rations famished by the 
government. .... 
(( «< 
20 00 
E. W. Hubard, 
Robert Gibbonet, 
Commissioners for Fa. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 145 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 116. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, August 31, 1863. 
I. Generals, or other officers commanding departments, armies 
in the field, posts or garrisons, will cause all deserters, stragglers 
or other absentees from duty, and all persons liable to military 
service, found within their lines and not belonging to their com- 
mand, to be forthwith arrested and turned over to the nearest 
enrolling officer, whose duty it shall be to forward such absentees 
to their proper command, or, in case of conscripts, to assign them 
to service in the army nearest to his post, according to his dis- 
cretion.* 
II. Under instructions from the Bureau of Conscription, an 
enrolling officer will be attached to each military department to 
carry out the purposes indicated in paragraph I. 
III. Overseers entitled to exemption will be exempted from 
military service for one year, when the owner of the slaves of 
whom the overseer has had charge, shall present to the enrolling 
officer the receipt of a quartermaster for the amount of the tax 
imposed in such cases by the act of Congress, approved May 1, 
1863. Officers of the Quartermaster’s department are directed to 
receive and receipt for money thus paid. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 117. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office’ 
Richmond, Sept. 3, 1863. 
I. In any case where the exigencies of the army compel im- 
pressment or purchase, for its use, of the whole of any one arti- 
cle, or all articles of the planter’s production, taxed in kind, the 
post quartermaster of the district will transfer to his district col- 
lector the assessor’s estimate, to be collected in the money value 
only, at the rate of purchase or impressment, as the case may be. 
Before making such transfer, the post quartermaster of the dis- 
trict will credit the producer upon such estimates with the amount 
of such articles as he may have paid in kind, and endorse thereon 
the circumstances under which the transfer is made, 
* Modified by Par IT, Gen. Orders, No. 126 II. Controlling and post quartermasters of districts will keep 
and report their accounts relating to tax in kind, separate and 
distinct from all others. 
III. Producers are required to deliver the wheat, corn, oats, rye, 
buckwheat, rice, peas, beans, cured hay and fodder, sugar, mo- 
lasses of cane, wool and tobacco, in such form and ordinary mar- 
ketable condition as may be usual in the section in which they 
are delivered—cotton ginned and packed in some secure manner 
—tobacco stripped and packed in boxes. 
IV. Where post quartermasters of districts entrust agents with 
disbursements, care must be taken that receipts and accounts be 
stated in the name of the post quartermaster. 
V. Quartermasters and commissaries serving with troops may 
receive the tithe tax, when authorized to do so by the chief quar- 
termaster or chief commissary of the army in which they are 
serving. The names of such authorized officers will be reported 
to the Quartermaster General. 
VI. Where producers offer to pay their tithe tax to officers au- 
thorized to receive it, it is obligatory upon the latter to receive 
the produce, and to pay the excess of transportation over eight 
miles, at the rates prescribed by state commissioners, under the 
impressment act. In each case they will receipt to the post quar- 
termaster of the district for the produce. Upon this receipt the 
receiving officer will be responsible for the quantity which he will 
take up on his property return. The receipt given to the produ- 
cer will only be evidence that so much of his tax is paid. In all 
such receipts the name of tho producer and his county will be 
stated. 
By order- 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 118. 
Ai>j’t and Insp’r Gen’i/s Office, 
Richmond, Sept, 1, 1863. 
I. All officers of the Quartermaster’s department serving at 
posts or depots, -will report immediately to the Quartermaster 
General their looation, the character of the duties discharged by 
them, and by whose order they were so assigned. 
If. The principal quartermaster at each post or depot will like- 
wise report the names of all quartermasters serving thereat. He 147 
will also examine carefully into the occupation of each officer, 
and will designate such as can be spared for service elsewhere. 
III. The chief quartermaster of each separate army will for 
ward to the Quartermaster General, at the earliest practicable 
day, a complete list of all his subordinates, stating specifically 
the regiment, brigade, division or corps to which each may be 
attached, or when engaged on special duty, the character thereof. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 119. 
AdPt and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Sept. 7, 18G8. 
T. All officers and agents of the Quartermaster’s, Commissary 
and Conscription departments will render all assistance in their 
power in collecting arms abandoned or left by stragglers in the 
bands of citizens. 
II. Arms thus collected will be turned over to the nearest 
ordnance officer, who will receipt for the same, and, upon proper 
vouchers, pay any reasonable expense actually incurred for trans- 
portation. 
111. “ Medical inspectors will be recommended by the Surgeon 
General, and being approved, will be announced in orders from 
this office.” 
IV. As heretofore required in General Orders, No. 64, of 1862, 
respecting the hides of beeves, commissaries of subsistence in the 
he’d and at depots will transfer the hides of all slaughtered sheep 
to officers of the Quartermaster’s department, who will receive 
and preserve them to be tanned. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 120. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Sept. 8, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Martial, convened at Chattanooga, Ten- 
nessee, June 24,1863, by virtue of Special Orders, No. 69, dated 148 
Head Quarters Army of Tennessee, March 16, 1863, was arraign- 
ed and tried: 
Capt. G. D. MiTcnEMi, Assistant Quartermaster P. A. C. S., on 
the following Charge—(The Specifications being very lengthy, 
are here omitted:) 
Charge, - Conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman- 
II. Finding and Sentence of Court. 
After mature deliberation, the Court find the accused, Captain 
G. D. Mitchell, Asst. Quartermaster P. A. C. S., as follows: 
Of the 1st Specification, ... - Guilty. 
Of the 2d Specification, .... Guilty. 
Of the Charge, ----- Guilty. 
And do, therefore, sentence him to be cashiered. 
III. The proceedings in the foregoing case having been laid be- 
fore the Secretary of War for the consideration of the President, 
the following is his order thereon : 
The sentence of the Court in this case is not approved—the 
evidence not being sufficient to support the charge. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 121. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, September 9, 1863. 
I. Paragraph 1064 of the Army Regulations (107 of the Reg- 
ulations of the Quartermaster’s Department,) is amended to read 
as follows: 
“ Officers are entitled to pay from the date of the acceptance 
of their appointments, and from the date of promotion: pro- 
vided, that disbursing officers, who are required to give official 
bonds, shall forward the same, always duly executed, with their 
letters of acceptance, and that their acceptance shall take effect 
only from the date of the approval of the bonds by the War De- 
partment. But in no case will an officer be assigned to duty, 
and receive pay, until he has received his appointment. Notifi- 
cations of the receipt and approval of said bonds will be for- 
warded to officers, through the chief of the Bureau to which 
they belong.* 
* See also Par. I., General Orders, No. 126. 149 
II. All officers of the Quartermaster General’s and Cornmis- 
saiy General s departments (except such as hold commissions in 
the regular army of the Confederate States,) appointed prior to 
the commencement of the present session of Congress (January 
12th, 1863,) and whose bonds, prior to the date of this order, 
have not been filed in, and approved by the War Department, 
are hereby dropped: provided, that on satisfactory evidence that 
such failure has not been the result of gross neglect, the Com- 
manding General may grant the officers concerned a short leave 
of absence to make and forward their bonds, and shall report 
this fact to the Quartermaster General. 
III. No application for the revocation of the above order, in 
any individual case, will be entertained by the War Department. 
If a vacancy be occasioned in any brigade or regiment, or at a 
post, application will be made for a new appointment, in con- 
formity to General Orders, No. 8, 1863 ; and the appointee, in 
accepting his position, will be held strictly to the requirements 
of preceding paragraph I. 
IV. Officers of the Quartermaster General’s department, whose 
appointments bear date subsequent to the 12th day of January, 
1863, and who have not filed bonds, duly executed, will be al- 
lowed a furlough for such time, not exceeding sixty days, as may 
be necessary to enable them to execute their bonds. 
V. Commanding officers will be careful to recommend for ap- 
pointment as disbursing officers, only such persons as furnish 
reasonable assurance ot their ability to execute the bonds re- 
quired by law. 
VI. All letters of appointment hereafter issued will be accom- 
panied by a notification to the appointee, that his official bond 
must be returned with his acceptance, and that the latter will 
take effect only from the date at which said bond is approved. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 122. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, September 11, 1863, 
I. Commanding officers of regiments, battalions, &c., will im- 
mediately on receipt hereof, cause to be made out and forward- 
ed, through proper channels, to Col. J. S. Preston, Chief of the 
Bureau of Conscription, a complete list of all persons held as 
substitutes in the army, in their respective commands. This 
list will embrace the regiment, company, dato of enlistment, and 
age of each substitute, with the name and post-office ot th# 150 
principal. They will also, in the same manner, furnish a monthly 
roll of all deserters and absentees without leave. This will bo 
arranged according to the county and congressional district to 
which the parties belong, and will set forth the time and place 
of desertion in each case.* 
II. All officers, charged by commanding generals with the 
duty of arresting and returning deserters and absentees, will re- 
port to the commandant of conscripts in the respective States to 
which such officers are sent, and will co-operate generally with 
enrolling officers in the discharge of the duties assigned to them. 
III. The following act of Congress is published for the infor- 
mation of all concerned: 
“Every person, not subject to the Rules and Articles of War, 
who shall procure or entice a soldier of the Confederate States to 
desert, or who shall purchase from any soldier his arms, uniform, 
clothing, or any part thereof, shall, upon legal conviction, bo 
fined at the discretion of the court having cognizance of the 
same, in any sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, and be 
imprisoned not exceeding one year.” 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 123. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen Vs Office 
Richmond, September 16, 1863. 
The following Order is published for the information of all 
concerned : 
Exchange Notice, No. 6. 
The following Confederate officers and men, captured at 'Vicks- 
burg, Miss., July 4, 1863 ; and subsequently paroled, have been 
duly exchanged, and are hereby so declared : 
1. The officers and men of Gen. C. L. Stephenson’s division. 
2. The officers and men of Gen. Bowen’s division. 
3. The officers and men of Brig. Gen. Moore’s brigade. 
4. The officers and men of the 2d Texas regiment. 
5. The officers and men of Waul’s legion. 
0,. Also, all Confederate officers and men who have been 
*-Modified by Par. VII., General Orders, No. 12f>, livered at City Point at any time previous to July 25th, 1863, 
have been duly exchanged, and are hereby so declared. 
Ro. Ould, 
Agent of Exchange. 
Richmond, Sept. 12, 1863. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 124. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, September 22, 1863. 
I* Potatoes (sweet,) gathered under the tax law by commissa- 
ries and quartermasters, at or within reach of places where hos- 
pitals are located, will be transferred (invoices and receipts be- 
ing given) to the medical officers in charge of the hospitals, to 
be cared for and secured against the influences of frost, &c., for 
the use of the sick. Or fafmers, when the hospitals are more 
convenient of access than the depots, may deliver their potatoes 
(tax in kind) to the medical officer in charge, taking receipts, 
which will be acknowledged by the tax agent. 
II. The pay of surgeons (private physicians) employed under 
General Orders, No. 82, Adjutant and Inspector General’s of- 
fice, of 1862, is increased to six dollars per diem, until further 
orders. 
III. “ Assistant Medical, Directors” and “Assistant Medical 
Inspectors” not being authorized, the titles will not be used. 
IV. pay allowed soldiers detailed for duty as com- 
missary sergeants by the act of Congress, approved May 1, 1863, 
will be paid upon the muster and pay rolls of the companies to 
which they belong, by the quartermaster charged with the duty 
of paying troops. 
By order, 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, September, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 125. 
I. Information having been received of repeated misconstruc- 
tions and violations of paragraph XII, General Orders, No. 82, 
1802, it is reiterated that no persons liable to conscription will 152 
bo permitted under any oircumstances to volunteer in regiments, 
battalions or companies organized since the 16th of April, 1862, 
except such as were organized under the provisions of the act of 
Congress of that date, entitled “ an act further to provide for the 
public defence." 
II. No authority exists for organizing new companies out of 
companies or portions of companies now in service. 
III. It shall be the duty of commandants of conscripts, on 
information of persons being received into companies contrary to 
the provisions of this order, to make immediate requisition for 
such persons on the officer commanding, and on failure of the 
officer to return the persons so received to the camp of instruc- 
tion, the commandant shall report the matter, with the facts of 
the case, to the Bureau of Conscription, to be decided by this 
department. 
IV. No officer commanding, whose company reaches the maxi- 
mum allowed by regulations, shall be permitted to receive re- 
cruits, either as volunteers or in any other form. 
V. No officer commanding shall accept, or muster in persons 
of conscript age, unless such person shall first exhibit a certifi- 
cate approved by an enrolling officer, stating that he has volun- 
teered and selected his company, which company is allowed to 
receive recruits. 
VI. The Bureau of Conscription is charged with the establish- 
ment of such regulations as will enforce this order. 
VII. Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 122, September II, 
1863, is so modified as to read as follows : 
Commanding officers of regiments, battalions, &c., will imme- 
diately on receipt hereof, cause to be made out and forwarded 
through proper channels to Colonel J. S. Preston, Chief of the 
Bureau of Conscription, a complete list of all persons received as 
substitutes in the army in their respective commands. This list 
will embrace the regiment, company, date of enlistment and age 
of such substitute, with the name, post office, and date of enlist- 
ment of the principal. It will also state whether the substitute is 
now serving, or has died or been killed while in, or discharged from 
service, or whether he has deserted, with the date and circumstances 
of such death, discharge or desertion. They will also, in the 
same manner, furnish a monthly roll of all deserters and absen- 
tees without leave. This roll will be arranged according to the 
county and congressional district to which the parties belong, 
and will set forth the time and place of desertion in each case. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 153 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 126. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, September 28, 18G3. 
I. In order to avoid all difficulty with respect to payment of 
officers absent from their commands, and who have not received 
commissions or letters of appointment, it is ordered, that all such 
officers shall, before leaving their companies, be furnished 'with 
a transcript from the muster rolls, or a certificate in lieu thereof, 
as may be convenient; setting out the full name, rank and date 
of such officer, and that he is borne on the muster roll as such. 
These transcripts or certificates will be signed by the command- 
ing officer of the regiment and company, and will be equivalent 
with the pay officer to the commission or letter of appointment 
referred to in paragraph I, General Orders, No. 121, of 1863. 
This provision, however, is not designed to dispense with the 
requirements of General Orders, No. 28, pars. II and III, cur- 
rent series. 
‘II. Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 116, Adjutant and In- 
spector General’s Office, is so modified as to read as follows : 
“ Generals, or other officers commanding departments, armies 
in the field, posts or garrisons, will cause all deserters, stragglers 
or other absentees from duty, and all persons liable to military 
service, found wdthin their lines, and not belonging to their com- 
mand, to be forthwith arrested and turned over to the nearest 
enrolling officer, whose duty it shall be to forward such absen- 
tees to their proper commands ; or in case of conscripts, to as- 
sign them to service, at the discretion of the commandant of 
conscripts of the State.” 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 127. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, September 29, 1863. 
In view of the importance of pressing the home production of 
nitre, the workmen in exposed districts will be called from their 
work for local defence only in cases of extreme military urgency, 
and then only by the General commanding the district, by an 
order to the officer in charge. 
In the nitre districts lately overrun, the workmen will be 
returned to their work, and all reasonable facilities for resuming 
operations will be extended by military officers. 
By order. 
. S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 128. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Via., Sept. 30, 1863. 
I. The following Schedule of Prices for articles named there- 
in, adopted by commissioners appointed pursuant to law for the 
State of South Carolina, are announced for the information of 
all concerned, and the special attention of officers and agents of 
the government is directed thereto : 
II. Schedule of Prices established by the Board of Commissioners of the 
State of South Carolina, under the act of Congress of the Confed- 
erate States “ to regulate impressments 
ARTICLES. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
* 
Apples, dried, 
Good, 
Peeled, . 
Per bush. 28 lbs. 
$3 00 
Apples, dried, 
U 
Unpeeled, 
Per bush. 28 lbs. 
2 00 
Axes, 
u 
With handles, 
Each, 
5 00 
Axes, 
u 
Without handles, . 
Each, 
4 00 
Bacon, 
Bacon, . 
u 
Sides, 
Per pound, 
75 
u 
Hams, . 
Per pound, 
70 
Bacon, . 
u 
Shoulders, 
Per pound, 
05 
Bacon, 
u 
Jowls, . 
Per pound, 
40 
Beans, 
u 
White or cornfield, 
Per bushel, 
3 00 
Brandy, . 
u 
Apple, . 
Per gallon, 
4 00 
Brandy, . 
u 
Peach, . 
Per gallon. 
5 00 
Beef, 
u 
Fresh, net, 
Per pound, 
25 
Beef, 
u 
Salt or corned, 
Per pound, 
50 
Beef Cattle, . 
ll 
Gross, . 
Per pound, 
18 
Candles, . 
' a 
Tallow, 
Per pound, 
1 00 
Chains, . 
u 
Trace, . 
Per pair, . 
2 50 
Cloth, 
u 
Woolen, for soldiers’ 
clothes, $ y’d wide, 
10 oz. to y’d, & pro 
rata as to greater 
or less weight or 
width, . 
Per yard.. 
4 00 
Coffee, . 
a 
Rio, 
Per pound. 
3 00 
Corn, 
<( 
Unshelled, 
Per bush. 70 lbs 
1 05 
Corn, 
u 
Shelled, sacks not 
included, 
Per bush. 50 lbs. 
2 00 
Corn Meal, 
<( 
Sacks not included, 
Per bush. 50 lbs. 
2 00 
Drills, 
yard wide, 
3 yards to pound, 
Per yard,. 
05 155 
ARTICLES. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
Flour, 
Good, 
Extra Family, 
Per bbl 196 lbs. 
$22 00 
Flour. 
u 
Extra Family, 
Per sack 98 lbs. 
11 00 
Flour, 
u 
Superfine, 
Per bbl 196 lbs. 
20 00 
Flour, 
u 
Supeifine, 
Per sack 98 lbs. 
10 00 
Flour, 
tt 
Fine, 
Per bbl 196 lbs. 
18 00 
Flour, 
It 
Fine, 
Fer sack 98 lbs. 
9 00 
Fodder, . 
tt 
Baled, 
Per 100 pounds 
2 50 
Fodder, . 
“ 
Unbaled, 
Per 100 pounds 
2 00 
Hats, 
tt 
Wool, 
Each, 
3 25 
Hay, 
tt 
Baled, 
Per 100 pounds 
1 50 
Hay, 
tt 
Unbaled, 
Per 100 pounds, 
1 25 
Hogs, 
tt 
Net, 
Per pound, 
35 
Hogs, 
tt 
Gross, 
Per pound, 
25 
Hides, 
tt 
Dry, 
Per pound, 
1 25 
Hides, 
tt 
Green, . 
Per pound, 
50 
Horses, . 
tt 
Artillery, 1st class, 
Per head, 
500 00 
Horses, . 
“ 
Artillery, 2d class, 
Per head, 
400 00 
Iron, 
tt 
Pig, 
Per ton 2240 lbs. 
85 00 
Iron, 
tt 
Square or Round, . 
Per ton 2240 lbs. 
150 00 
Iron, 
It 
Flat or Band, 
Per ton 2240 lbs. 
320 00 
Iron, 
tt 
Hoop, 
Per ton 2240 lbs. 
440 00 
Iron, 
tt 
Boiler Plate, . 
Per ton 2240 lbs. 
300 00 
Iron, 
“ 
Serviceable R. R., 
Per ton 2240 lbs. 
175 00 
Iron, 
tt 
Uunservic'ble R. R. 
Per ton 2240 lbs. 
75 00 
Jeans, 
(t 
Wool, domestic, 
Per yard,. 
4 00 
Kettles, . 
«• 
Camp, iron, . 
Each, 
5 00 
Lard, 
tt 
Clean, . 
Per pound, 
75 
Leather, . 
tt 
Sole, 
Per pound, 
2 50 
Leather, . 
tt 
Upper, . 
Per pound, 
3 25 
Leather, . 
“ 
Harness, 
Per pound, 
3 00 
Molasses, 
tt 
Cane, 
Per gallon, 
5 00 
Molasses, 
tt 
Sorghum, 
Per gallon, 
3 00 
Mules, 
“ 
1st class, 
Per head, 
400 00 
Mules, 
tt 
2d class, 
Per head, 
350 00 
Mule3, 
tt 
3d class, 
Per head, 
250 00 
Oats, 
tt 
Sheaf, unhaled, 
Per 100 pounds, 
2 00 
Oats, 
tt 
Sheaf, baled,. 
Per 100 pounds. 
2 50 
Oats. . 
tt 
Shelled, . 
Per bush. 34 lbs. 
1 50 
Osnabttrgs, 
tt 
Cotton, | yard wide, 
7 07.. to yard, 
Per yard,. 
60 
Osnaburgs, 
tt 
Cotton, g yard wide, 
8 oz. to yard, 
Per yard,. 
70 
Peas, 
tt 
Cow, 
Per bush. 60 lbs. 
2 CO 
Potatoes, 
<{ 
Irish, 
Per bush. 60 lbs. 
2 00 156 
ARTICLES. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUALITY. 
Potatoes, 
Good, 
Sweet, . 
Per bush. 60 lbs 
$1 00 
Peaches,dried, 
CC 
Peeled, . 
Per bush. 38 lbs 
5 00 
Peaches, dried, 
cc 
Unpeeled, 
Per bush. 38 lbs 
3 00 
Pork, 
(( 
Fresh, . . . 
Per pound, . 
35 
Pork, 
cc 
Salt, 
Per pound, 
55 
Pasturage, 
“ 
Cattle and horses 
near city, 
Per head prm’th 
3 00 
Pasturage, 
u 
Interior, . 
Per head pr m’th 
1 50 
Rice, 
cc 
New, 
Per pound, 
15 
Rice, 
u 
Old, ■. 
Per pound, 
12 
Rye, 
“ 
Good, '. 
Per bush. 56 lbs. 
2 50 
Sacks, 
it 
Two bush, osnab’rg, 
Each, 
1 00 
Shirting, . 
“ 
Cotton, £ yard wide, 
yards to pound, 
Per yard,. 
50 
Shirting, . 
u 
Cotton, yard wide, 
yards to pound, 
Per yard, 
60 
Cotton Stripes, 
cc 
Three yards to lb. 
Per yard, 
75 
Salt, 
(C 
Coast, . . . 
Per bush. 50 lbs. 
15 00 
Salt, 
CC 
Liverpool, 
Per bush. 00 lbs. 
30 00 
Shoes, 
<c 
Army, . 
Per pair, . 
8 00 
Shoe Thread, . 
a 
Flax, . 
Per pound, 
3 00 
Socks, 
cc 
Soldiers’, wool, 
Per pair, . 
1 25 
Sheep, . 
cc 
Fat, 
Per head, 
15 00 
Sugar, 
“ 
Brown, common, . 
Per pound, 
90 
Sugar, 
cc 
Brown, common, . 
Per pound, 
SO 
Soap, 
u 
Hard, . 
Per pound, 
40 
Soap, 
cc 
Soft, 
Per pound, 
20 
Shucks, . 
.( 
Baled, . . 
Per 100 pounds, 
1 50 
Shucks, . 
(( 
Unbaled, 
Per 100 pounds, 
1 25 
Tea, 
a 
Black, 
Per pound, 
5 00 
Tea, 
u 
Green, . 
Per pound, 
7 00 
Tent Cloth, 
cc 
Cotton, 10 oz. to y'd, 
Per yard, . 
90 
Tallow, . 
“ 
Clean, . 
Per pound, 
80 
Vinegar,. 
cc 
Cider, 
Per gallon, 
1 00 
Vinegar, . 
cc 
Manufactured, 
Per gallon, 
75 
Whiskey, 
cc 
Good, 
Per gallon, 
4 00 
Wheat, . 
cc 
First rate, white, . 
Per bush. 60 lbs. 
4 00 
Wheat, . 
cc 
Fair, 
Per bush. 6Q lbs. 
3 50 
Wheat, . 
cc 
Ordinary, 
Per bush. 60 lbs. 
3 00 
Wheat Straw, 
CC 
Baled, . 
Per 100 pounds, 
60 
Wheat Straw, 
cc 
Unbaled, 
Per 100 pounds, 
50 
Wool, . ; 
cc 
Washed, 
Per pound, 
3 75 
Wool, . 
cc 
Unwashed, . 
Per pound, 
3 00 
Wagons, . 
(( 
Wood ajx.4 her., new 
Each, 
250 00 157 
ARTICLES. 
| QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
Wagons,. 
Good, 
Iron axle, 4 lior. new 
Each, 
$300 00 
Wagons,. 
U 
Wood ax. 2 hor. new 
Each, 
175 00 
Wagons,. 
u 
Iron ax. 2 hor. new, 
Each. 
225 00 
Yarn, 
u 
Cotton, . 
Per bunch 5 lbs. 
6 00 
Hire of Labor, Teams, Wagons and Horses. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
Baling long forage, ... 
Per 100 pounds, 
$0 30 
Shelling and sacking corn, sacks fur- 
nished by government, 
“ bush, of 56 lbs. 
05 
Hauling, .... 
“ 100 lbs. per ml. 
03 
Hire of two-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by owner, - 
“ day, 
7 00 
Hire of two-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by govern- 
ment, ----- 
“ day, 
5 00 
Hire of four-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by owner, - 
“ day, 
10 00 
Hire of four-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by govern- 
ment, ----- 
“ day, 
6 50 
Hire of six-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by owner, - 
“ day, 
12 00 
Hire of six-horse team, wagon and 
driver, rations furnished by govern- 
ment, ----- 
<• day, - - 
S 00 
Hire of laborer, rations furnished by 
owner, - - - 
“ day, 
1 50 
Hire of laborer, rations furnished by 
government, - - - - 
“ day, 
1 00 
Hire of laborer, rations furnished by 
owner, - 
“ month, - 
30 00 
Hire of laborer, rations furnished by 
government, - - - 
“ month, 
15 00 
The undersigned, commissioners and appraisers, under the act 
of Congress for regulating the impressments for South Carolina, 
have adopted the foregoing schedule of prices, which they think 
is fair and equitable under existing circumstances. They hope 
that the producer will be willing not only to sell to the govern- mont at these prices, but to private individuals, and especially 
to the families of soldiers who are in the service of their country. 
The present is no time for those who are at home to be specula- 
ting on the necessities of a bleeding country. They should con- 
sider that whilst the patriotic and gallant soldier in the army is 
offering his blood and his life as a sacrifice for independence, that 
they, too, are called upon to make sacrifices and forego all exor- 
bitant profits on what they have to sell. He who is unwilling to 
do so is unworthy of his country and the cause in which she is 
engaged. 
The commissioners would respectfully suggest to the quarter- 
masters and commissaries in South Carolina, that they should not 
impress provisions which have been purchased for family supplies 
and immediate consumption, nor should they interfere with pur- 
chases made at government prices, on their way to market, in the 
hands of a fair retail dealer, who is willing to sell at a moderate 
profit, to supply the wants of the poor in the cities, towns and 
villages of the State. 
The foregoing schedule of prices will continue in force for two 
months, unless sooner revised. 
B. F. Perry, 
A. M. Martin, 
Commissioners. 
Columbia, 8. C., September 15, 1863. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
Buckingham, Oct. 1, 1863. 
Hon. James A. Seddon: 
Sir—As there occurred several inaccuracies in publishing 
our schedule A, dated Richmond, October 1st, 1863, we respect- 
fully submit the following corrections. We trust, as the mis- 
takes are so obvious, that the good sense of the public as well as 
of our impressing agents, enabled them in detecting to correct 
them. In August we assessed prime white and red wheat at $5 
per bushel, and good superfine flour at $25 per barrel. At our 
meeting the 24th of September, the board re adopted in full our 
schedule of August, with a few additions. Therefore we retain- 
ed our former valuation of superfine flour. But we added fine 
flour, which we assessed at $22 per barrel, and extra superfine 
flour at $26 50 per barrel, and family flour at $28 per barrel—• 
each weighing 196 pounds. We also added good, fresh fat pork, 
at forty-five cents per pound net weight. Not apprehending the 
developing of any fact* of sufficient importance to require a 
change in our valuations for at least two months, we adopted schedules A and B, as adjusted in August, with the foregoing 
additions, as the government rates for the ensuing two months. 
We therefore submit the August schedules marked A and B, 
with the foregoing stated additions and corrections, and request 
their republication, with the understanding that the prices there- 
in indicated are to remain for the months of October and Novem- 
ber, as agreed upon when we presented to you our last report. 
If In the mean time any additions to the number of articles as- 
sessed should be desirable, we will send in a supplemental sched- 
ule embracing them. Most respectfully, 
E. W. IIuBARD, 
Bob’t Gibbonev, 
Commissioners for Fa. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 129. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l's Office, 
Richmond, Oct. 1, 1863. 
The following schedules present the maxi n«m prices to be paid 
for the articles appraised, at all cities and usual places of sale, and 
when impressed elsewhere, the same prices are tube paid elsewhere, 
less the cost of transportation to the city or usual place of sale to 
which the article would go ordinarily for sale from that neigh- 
borhood, or less the cost of transportation to the point at whicli 
the government needs the article, and wishes it to be sent: Pro- 
vided, that in no case the amount deducted for transportation as 
above shall exee’ed 25 cents per bushel for grain, and 25 cents per 
cwt. for long forage, flour, bacon, iron, &c. In addition to the 
established price of transportation, the government to pay all 
legal tolls, and, where farmers cannot procure nails for baling 
forage, government to furnish tbe same at cost, which will be de- 
ducted from tbe established price of baling: 
Schedule A. 
ARTICLE. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
1 Wheat, 
Pri me. 
White or red. 
Pr bush of 60 lbs 
$ 5 00 
2 Flour, 
Good, 
Fine, 
Pr barrel of 196 lbs. 
22 00 
“ 
“ 
•Superfine, 
U U U 
25 00 
“ 
U 
Ex. sup’rflne 
c; u u 
26 50 
11 
U 
Family, 
a u u 
28 00 
15 Corn, 
P ri me. 
Wire or veil wjPr bush of 56 lbs. 
4 00 
•5 Unshelled corn, 
U 
u u 
“ 56 lbs. 
15 95 
13 t'oni meal, 
6 
o 
“ “ 50 lbs. 
4 20 Schedule A.—Continued. 
ARTICLE. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
6 Rye, 
Prime, 
Per bush of 56 lbs. 
$ 3 20 
7 Cleaned oats, 
U 
“ “ 32 lbs. 
2 00 
8 Wheat bran, 
Good, 
“ “ 17 lbs. 
50 
9 Shorts, 
U 
“ “ 22 lbs. 
70 
10 Brown stuff, 
u 
“ “ 28 lbs. 
90 
11 Ship stuff, 
u 
“ “ 37 lbs. 
1 40 
12 Bacon, 
u 
Hog round, 
Per pound, 
1 00 
13 Salt pork, 
(C 
U 
1 00 
Fresh pork, 
Fat & 
good, 
Per lb. net weight, 
45 
14 Lard, 
Good, 
Per pound, 
1 00 
15 Horses, 
lstcl’s 
Artillery, &c. 
Av’ge price pr head 
350 00 
16 Wool, 
Fair or 
Mer’o 
Washed, 
Per pound, 
3 00 
17 Wool, 
Fair or 
Mer’o 
Unwashed, 
(C 
2 00 
18 Peas, 
Good, 
Per bush of GO lbs. 
4 00 
19 Beans, 
<C 
tt u «t 
4 00 
20 Potatoes, 
u 
Irish, 
« 
4 00 
21 Potatoes, 
“ 
Sweet, 
(( 
5 00 
22 Onions, 
Good, 
“ “ 60 lbs 
5 00 
23 Dried peaches, 
U 
Pealed, 
“ of 38 lbs. 
8 00 
24 Dried peaches, 
• ( 
Unpealed, 
“ of 38 lbs. 
4 50 
25 Dried apples, 
(C 
Pealed, 
“ . of 28 lbs. 
3 00 
2G Hay, baled, 
Timothy or 
a 
clover, 
Per 100 pounds, 
3 00 
27 Hay, baled, 
Orchard or 
a 
herd grass, 
(( u 
3 00 
28 Hay, unbaled, 
Orchard or 
<c 
herd grass, 
<c u 
2 70 
29 Sh’f oats, baled, 
cc 
U CC 
4 00 
30 Sh’f oats, unb’d. 
u 
(C u 
3 70 
31 Blade fod’r, b’d. 
<( 
(( u 
3 00 
32 Bl fodder, nnb’d 
“ 
u u 
2 70 
33 Shucks, baled, 
u 
(( u 
2 00 
34 Shucks, unb’d, 
a 
(( c( 
1 70 
35 Wheat straw, 
baled, 
(C 
il u 
1 00 
3G Wheat straw, 
unbaled, 
“ 
(( tl 
70 
37 Pasturage, 
Good, 
Interior, 
Per head pr month, 
3 00 
38 “ 
Sup’r, 
U 
<t U 
4 00 
39 “ 
1st r’te 
u 
u u . 
5 00 161 
Schedule A.—Continued. 
ARTICLES. 
QUALITY 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
40 Pasturage, 
Good, 
Near cities, 
Per head pr month, 
$ 5 00 
41 “ 
Sup’r, 
1st r’te 
“ 
6 00 
42 “ 
CC 
ll CC 
7 00 
43 Salt, 
Good, 
Per bush of 50 lbs, 
5 00 
44 Soap, 
“ 
Per pound, 
40 
45 Candles, 
CC 
Tallow, 
CC 
1 00 
46 Vinegar, 
“ 
Cider, 
Per gallon, 
1 00 
47 Whiskey, 
cc 
Trade, 
CC 
3 00 
48 Sugar, 
u 
Brown, 
New Orleans, 
Per pound, 
1 00 
49 Molasses, 
a 
Per gallon, 
8 00 
50 Rice, 
cc 
Per pound, 
20 
51 Coffee, 
cc 
Rio, 
3 00 
52 Tea, 
cc 
Trade, 
CC 
7 00 
53 Vinegar, 
cc 
Manufact’d, 
Per gallon, 
50 
54 Pig iron, 
cc 
No. 1 quality. 
Per ton, 
125 00 
55 Pig iron, 
“ 
No. 2 “ 
CC 
110 00 
56 Pig iron, 
a 
No. 3 “ 
CC 
100 00 
57 Bloom iron, 
58 Smith’s iron, 
cc 
Round, plate 
CC 
ISO 00 
cc 
and bar, 
Per ton, 
380 00 
59 Railroad iron, 
cc 
CC 
190 00 
60 Leather, 
cc 
Harness, 
Per pound, 
2 60 
61 
cc 
Sole, 
CC 
2 40 
62 “ 
cc 
Upper, 
Gross weight, 
“ 
2 80 
63 Beef cattle, 
“ 
Per 100 pounds, 
16 00 
64 “ 
Sup’r, 
u CC 
Cc CC 
18 00 
65 “ 
1st r’te 
CC CC 
a cc 
20 00 
66 Sheep, 
67 Army woollen 
Fair, 
Per head, 
30 00 
cloth, £ yd. 
Good, 
10 oz. per yd. 
Per yard, 
4 50 
68 Army wooden 
Pro rata as to 
cloth, 
69 Army woollen 
cc 
greater or less 
Width or weight, 
cloth, 6 4 yd. 
70 Army woollen 
(( 
2C oz. per yd. 
Pro rata as to 
Per yard, 
9 00 
cloth, 
CC 
greater or less 
Width or weight, 
71 Flannels, £ 
cc 
6 oz. per yd. 
Per yard, 
U 
3 00 
72 Cotton shirt’g, | 
ll 
4J yds. to lb. 
42 
73 “ “ i 
74 Cotton sheet- 
u 
3£ yds. to lb. 
CC 
50 
ings, 4-4, 
75 Cotton pzna- 
cc 
3 yds. to lb. 
cc 
60 
burgs, £, 
ll 
6 oz. per yd. 
60 162 
Schedule A—Continued. 
ARTICLE. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
. 
PRICE. 
76 Cotton ozna- 
burgs, £-, 
. 
u 
8 oz. per yd. 
Per yard. 
$ 
70 
77 Cotton drills. •£, 
78 Cotton shirting 
stripes, 
u 
3 yds. to lb. 
U . 
70 
“ 
3 yds. to lb. 
« 
70 
79 Cotton tent 
cloths, 
u 
10 oz. to yd, 
u 
87 
80* 
81 Cotton warps, 
u 
• 
Per pound, 
1 
63 
S3 Army shoes, 
a 
Per pair, 
10 
00 
S3 Shoe thread, 
Per pound, 
o 
00 
£4 Wool socks for 
men, 
C' 
Per pair, 
i 
25 
85 Mules, 
1st r’te 
Wagon, &e. 
Av'e price pr head, 
300 
00 
In assessing the average value of “ first class artillery and 
wagon horses at §350,” we designed that the terra should be ac- 
cepted and acted upon accord;ng to its obvious common sense 
import. In other words, that horses should be selected, and then 
impressed accordingly as their working qualities and adaptation 
to army service, together with their intrinsic value, would war- 
rant a judicious purchaser in considering them as coming within 
the contemplation of the commissioners when they assessed the 
average value of such horses as the government needed, at $350. 
But cases might arise, however, when the public exigencies would 
be so urgent as to demand that all horses at hand should be im- 
pressed. Yet under ordinary circumstances, when family or ex- 
tra blooded horses, or brood mares of admitted high value are im- 
pressed, we respectfully suggest to the Secretary of War to have 
instructions forwarded to the impressing officers to propose and 
allow the owners to substitute in their stead such strong, sound 
and serviceable horses or mules as shall be considered and valued 
by competent and disinterested parties as first class artillery 
horses, or first rate wagon mules. 
' The term “average value per head” was used in contradistinc- 
tion to a fixed and uniform price for each horse or mule. We 
supposed that in impressing a number of horses or mules, whe- 
ther owned by several persons, or one individual, that somo 
* On the above enumerated cotton cloth?, pro rata as to greater 
or less width or weight. 163 
might be estimated at $250’ or even at less, and others at differ- 
ent advanced rates, according to their worth, up as high as $450, 
or above that amount—thus making an average value or price for 
a number of good, sound and efficient horses, $350 each, and 
mules $300 each. 
In illustration of our views, we will add, that a horse with 
only one eye sound, might, in all other respects, be classed as a 
first rate artillery horse, yet the loss of one eye would justly and 
considerably curtail his value. So a horse from 10 to 18 years of 
age might be deemed in all other particulars as a first class artil- 
lery horse, but of course, however efficient or able to render good 
service for a year or so, yet his advanced age would justly and 
materially impair his value. Any horse, however he may ap- 
proximate the standard of a first class artillery horse, must, ac- 
cording to’deficiencies, fall below the maximum price; and as 
few comparatively exactly come up to the standard, and therefore 
are entitled to the maximum price, so of course in all other in- 
stances the price should be proportionately reduced, as imperfec- 
tions place them below the standard of first class, &c. 
E. W. IIUBARD, 
Kobekt Gibboney, 
Commissioners for fa, Schedule B.—Hire of Labor, Teams, Wagons and Drivers. 
QUANTITY & TIME. 
PRICE. 
1. Baling long forage, . 
2. Shelling arid bagging corn, sacks fur- 
nished by the government, 
Per 100 lbs. 
“ 56 « 
.$ 30 
05 
3. Hauling, .... 
“ cwt. p. mile, 
06 
4. Hauling grain, 
5. Hire of two-horse team, wagon and 
“ bush lf 
03 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
6. Hire of same, rations furnished by-the 
“ day, 
10 00 
government, .... 
7. Hira of four-horse team, wagon and 
<c u 
5 00 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
S. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
« u 
13 00 
government, .... 
9. Hire of six-horse team, wagon and 
ti u 
6 50 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
10. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
Cl 11 
16 00 
government, .... 
11. Hire of laborer, rations furnished by 
4C <t 
8 00 
owner, .... 
12. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
u u 
2 00 
government, .... 
13. Hire of same, rations furnished by 
U (C 
1 25 
owner, .... 
14. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
“ month, 
40 00 
government, .... 
20 00 
E. W. IIUBARD, 
Robert Gibbonev, 
Commissioners for Va. 
By order, 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 130. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Oct. 2, 1863.' 
I. The evils resulting from the prolonged absence of soldiers 
who have obtained furloughs on account of sickness, being great- 
ly on the increase, the attention of officers of the army is di- 
rected to the 7th paragraph of General Orders, No. 69, of 1863, 
from this office, and strict compliance therewith is enjoined. 
II. Commanders of companies who, agreeably to the require- 
ments of the aforesaid orders, No. 69, receive from examining 
boards notices of furloughs granted by them, are required to 
make out and forward monthly to the superintendents of the 
Bureaus of Conscription (Col. J. S. Preston, at Richmond, Va., 
or Brig. Gen. G. J. Pillow, at Marietta, Ga., as the case may re- 
quire,) lists of all men so furloughed, and who do not promptly 
return to their companies at the expiration of the time granted 
them ; and it will be the duty of the superintendent receiving 
such lists, to direct the proper enrolling officers to arrest and re- 
turn to their companies, without delay, all persons who are thus 
reported, and found absent without proper authority. 
III. Payment upon affidavit to soldiers sick or wounded in 
hospitals, who are unprovided with descriptive lists, will hereaf- 
ter be limited to four months pay. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 131. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Fa., Oct. 3, 1863. 
Difficulties in procuring the medals and badges of distinction, 
having delayed their presentation by the President, as author- 
ized by the act of Congress, approved Oct. 13, 1862, to the offi- 
cers, non-commissioned officers and privates of the armies of 
the Confederate States, conspicuous for courage and good con- 
duct on the field of battle— 
To avoid postponing the grateful recognition of their valor 
until it can be made in the enduring form provided by that act— 
It is ordered, 
I. That the names of all those who have been or may hereaf- 
ter be reported as worthy of this distinction, be inscribed on a 
Roll of Honor. 
To be preserved in the office of the Adjutant and Inspector Gen- eral for reference, in all future time, for those who have deserved 
well of their country, as having best displayed their courage and 
devotion on the field of battle. 
‘ II. That the Roll of Honor, so far as now made up, be ap- 
pended to this Order, and read at the head of every regiment in 
the service of the Confederate States, at the first dress parade 
after its receipt, and be published in at least one newspaper in 
each State. 
III. The attention of the officers in charge is directed to Gene- 
ral Orders, No. 93, section No. 27, of the series of 18G2, Adju- 
tant and Inspector General’s Office, for the mode of selecting the 
non-commissioned officers and privates entitled to this distinc- 
tion, and its execution is enjoined. 
Battle of Murfreesboro’. 
Alabama. 
22d Regiment of Infantry : 
Sergeant W. D. Sumner, Company A‘ 
Private Wm. Sellers, . “ B’ 
Corporal J. L. Husbands, C" 
Sergeant B. T. Nelson, ll IP 
“ P. A. Minton, “ E' 
Corporal N. B. Walker, “ F* 
Private J. R. Black, ,l G’ 
Corporal W. R. Larry, “ H‘ 
Private J. J. McVey, “ 1 
“ J. N. Eilands, “ K. 
24th Regiment of Infantry: 
Captain W. D. Smith,* “ A' 
“ W. P. Fowler, “ F- 
“ Jno. B. Hazard, “ I- 
“ W. J. O'Brien, “ B- 
Lieutenant J. A. Hall, '* K- 
“ A. B. Nelson, D 
“ R. T. P. Parham, “ H. 
“ A. Young, “ A. 
Sergeant Major Win. Mink. 
1st Sergeant J. M. J. Tally, “ K. 
Sergeant John Ives, “ A. 
Private Martin Duggan. “ B. 
“ Melbourn Deloach, “ C. 
Sergeant Sami. S. Wylie, “ D. 
Private Joseph Hall, “ E. 
‘‘ Sam l. M. Roberts,* “ F. 
“ A. W. Scott, “ G. 
“ James R. Green, H. 24th Regiment of Infantry—Continued : 
“ N. Lankford,* Company !• 
“ A. Posey, “ K. 
25th Regiment of Infantry : 
Sergeant Tsaac N. Rhoades, “ A’ 
Private Warren A. Jackson, ‘‘ B‘ 
“ Samuel Ellison, “ C' 
“ James A. Mote, “ D' 
Sergeant J. F. Coker,* “ F' 
“ Patrick H. Smith, “ G' 
Private Marion F. Hazlewood, “ H. 
Charles W. Ropers,* “ I. 
“ J. B. Peacock,* ‘C K. 
26th Regiment of Infantry : 
Private B. A. Thompson, “ A' 
Sergeant J. E. Gilbert, “ B' 
Private L. F. Roberts, '* C" 
“ Reedy Ward, “ D’ 
Sergeant F. E. Mitchell, “ E’ 
Private J. T. McClain, “ G- 
“ J. II. Cotrel, “ IL 
“ John A. Uselton, “ I. 
Companies F and K made no selection. 
28th Regiment of Infantry: 
Private Topley Murpliey, “ B- 
Sergeant Elias Wood, “ G* 
“ W. B. Curry, “ K. 
“ William E. Short, “ L. 
The other companies made no selection. 
32d Regiment of Infantry : 
Private James Clements,* do A. 
Corporal Vincent II. Joiner, do B. 
Private Edmund Davis, do C. 
Corporal John C, Oliver,* do D. 
Private Reuben Dumas, do E. 
do Nathaniel Wheelers,* do F, 
.Corporal James H. Dore, do G. 
Private Alfred C. Hutto, do H. 
Sergeant George W. |[ansandt, do I 
Corporal Elijah P. Gable,* do K 
34th Regiment of Infantry : 
Corporal S. J. Numney, do A. 
Private J. R. Browing, do C. 
do C. P. Greer, do D, 168 
4th Regiment of Infantry—Continued: 
Private James Shehorn, Company E. 
do S. W. Reynolds, do F. 
do J. G. Whaley, do G. 
do T. N. Cloud, do H, 
do B. R. Covington, do I. 
do J. G. Metts, do K. 
39th Regiment of Infantry: 
Adjutant J. M. Macon* 
2d Lieut. E. Q. Thornton, do K. 
do E. 0. Petty, do R. 
Sergeant C. K. Hall, do H. 
do W. J. White, do H. 
do E. Priest, do K. 
Private W. C. Menifee, do A. 
Sergeant A. J. Talbot, • do A. 
Private Samuel M. Martin, do B. 
do John Dausby, do C. 
do Evander Burdett, do D. 
do Frank Jones, do E. 
do Wm. M. Meadows, do F. 
Sergeants John H. Poyner and T. F. Espy. do G. 
Company G was unable to decide between these 
two sergeants. 
Sergeant Abner Flowers, do I. 
do James S. Wilson, do K. 
Company H made no selection. 
17tli Battalion—Sharp Shooters : 
Private John A. Rutherford,* do A. 
do Walter S. White, do B. 
Waters’ Battery : 
Private John Hutcherson. 
Ketchum’s Battery: 
Captain James Garrity. 
1st Lieutenant Philip Bond, 
do M. A. Hassell. 
Arkansas. 
1st Regiment of Infantry ; j 
Lieutenant Colonel D. McGregor.* 
Adjutant S. M. Greenwood. 
Captain O. F. Parrish, do D. 
Lieutenant J. E. Letson, do D. 
Captain W. H. Scales, do C, 
Corporal G. M. McKenzie,* do A. 169 
1st Regiment of Infantry—Continued : 
Private J. S. T. Hemphill, Company B.* 
do G. W. Sallee,* do C, 
do G. Bagy, do D. 
do W. W. Chancy, do E. 
do H. J. Bullion, do F» 
do A. P. Green,* do G. 
do J. Benson, do H. 
do J. H. Curd, * do I. 
do O. C. Clioat, * do K. 
2d Regiment of Infantry : 
Corporal James W. Pyles, do A 
Private Tilman Peavy,* do B' 
do J. H. Eagle,* do C’ 
do E. A. Ballew, do D* 
do W. A. Thompson,* do E" 
do Wm. Till,* do F" 
Sergeant J. E. Shepard, do G* 
Private M. M. McGer, do H’ 
Sergeant H. M. Gravis* do I* 
do F. E. Gett, B do K* 
4th Regiment of Infantry: do A. 
Sergeant S A. Smith, do A- 
Private James M. Pate,* do C* 
d© Dan’l Hudson, do D- 
do Thomas Caldwell* do E. 
Sergeant J. F. Garrett,* do F. 
Private J. M. Vinson,* * do <G. 
Sergeant S. T. Ward,* do H. 
Private Simpson Jackson* do I, 
do T. P. Williams, do K. 
1st Regiment Mounted Rifles : 
Private Pat. Collawan, do A. 
do W. T. BlakemorS* do B. 
do James Pearsons, do C. 
Corporal C. D. Jenkins, do D. 
Private T. J. Underwood* do E. 
do W. W. Coe, do F. 
1st Sergeant W. S. Colbern, do G. 
Corporal Thomas Thompson, do H. 
do J. L. Casteen, do I. 
* Private G. B. House,* do K. 
25th Regiment of Infantry : 
Private J. Alphin, . do A. 
Cdrporal J. R. Fergurson, do B. 
Private W. G. Evans, do C. 170 
25th Regiment of Infantry—Continued. 
Private M. N. Jones, Company D. 
do S. H. McBride, do £• 
do John A. Wright, do F. 
do J. S Gardner, do G. 
do J. W. McNabb, do H. 
Corporal A. M. Ragsdel, do I. 
do H. D. Holdaway, do K. 
4th Battallion of Infantry : 
Private James Vines,* do A. 
Corporal L. Higgie.* do B. 
Private George Aylor, * do C. 
do C. G. Warren. do E. 
Humphries Artillery Company : 
Private John Campbell. 
Georgia. 
5th Regiment of Infantry: 
Private Newton Rice,* do A‘ 
Corporal M. J. McNamara,* do C' 
Private Thos. J. Brantley,* do E- 
Sergeant Samuel P. Kiddoo,* do F- 
Corporal B. 1). Bedell, do H- 
Private George A. Horseley,* do K. 
Companies D and G declined to select. 
3d Battalion of Infantry : 
Private A. S. Kinney,* do B. 
do W. D. Clark,* do C. 
do Mathew Hall, do D. 
do John Capps, do E. 
do Michael Kinney, do F. 
do Thomas Nolan, do G. 
do G. W. Sanders, do H. 
9th Battalion of Infantry : 
Private Obie McCreery, do A. 
do W. J. Wood, do B. 
do N. W. Rice, do C. 
Corporal Wm. M. Gaines, do D, 
Private C. M. R. Palmer, do E. 
Kentucky, 
2d Regiment of Infantry : 
Color Corporal W. H. Robinson, do A 
private R. H. Graves, do B 
> do Thomas Clark, do C 
U- A- Usebell, do 13 2d Regiment of Infantry—Continued: • 
Sergeant F. M. Chambers, Company Ei 
do W. O. Coppidge, do F" 
do D. E Turney, do G- 
Corporal E. H. Wriglit, do H. 
Sergeant John H. Crane, do I. 
do Jas. A. Pearce, do K. 
4th Regiment of Infantry : 
Corporal G. VY. Rogers, do A, 
Sergeant E. L. Johnson, do Bo 
Private John McGuire, do C. 
Color Corporal R. H. Lindsey, do D. 
Sergeant J. S. Whittington, do E. 
Private Joseph Nickols, do F. 
do H. D. Wallace, do G. 
Sergeant A M. Hathawny, do K. 
Companies II and I declined selecting. 
Regiment of Infantry: 
1st Sergeant J. B. Lewie, do C. 
Corporal E. S. Jones, do D. 
Private Thomas Payne, do E. 
do James T. Prather, do G-. 
2d Sergeant Wm. Harried, do H. 
Private J. O. Cushenburg, do L 
Companies A and B declined selecting. 
9th Regiment of Infantry : 
Captain Jos. Desha, do f. 
do James T. Morehead, do G. 
Private J. G. Wakefield, do A. 
do Jacob Blackshear, do B. 
do J. L. Collins, do C. 
do Nathan Board, do G. 
Sergeant Wm. K. Kenman, do H. 
do Drakeford Gray, do I. 
Private H. B. Roberts, do K. 
Company D declined to select. 
Louisiana. 
13th Regiment of Infantry: 
Color Sergeant Roger Tanure. 
Sergeant Major John Farrel. 
Private Dan. Dunn, do A 
do George K. Higgins, do B. 
do Lewis Brown, do C. 
Corporal F. Druvot, do D. 
Private E. M. Harris, do E. 
do Michael McCailiff, do F, 172 
13th Regiment of InfantTy—Continued : 
Private James Kinsley, Company G. 
do M. Brennigan, do H. 
Sergeant Pat. Johnston, do I. 
Private Francis Mackin, do K. 
20th Regiment of Infantry : 
Private Frank Monahan, do A. 
Corporal Charles Sneider, do B. 
do John Bellejean, do C. 
Private Walter Haynes,. do D. 
1st Sergeant P. Mooney, do E. 
Private G. Heisser, do F. 
do Michael Sullivan do G. 
do Michael Carey, do H. 
do John Gorman, do I. 
1st Sergeant G. G. Smith, do K. 
Austin’s Battalion of Sharpshooters: 
Private J. W. Stovall,* do A. 
do Andrew Devilbiss. do B. 
5th Company Washington Artillery : 
Private John W. Anthony. 
Mississippi. 
5th Regiment of Infantry : 
Sergeant Wm. Dobbs, do A. 
Private Jesse Glass, do B. 
Oorporal J. J. Smith, do C. 
Private G. T. Jayroe, do D. 
Sergeant J. H. Richardson, do E. 
do W. A. Snow, do F. 
Private S. F. Fondren, do G. 
Sergeant D. S. McCollum, do H. 
Private W. R. Flannigan, do I. 
do H. H. McMicliael, do K. 
7tli Regiment of Infantry: 
Private John Higginbotham,* do A. 
do H. H. Price, do' B. 
* do Richard Chaddick, do C. 
do Jeptha Creel, do I). 
Sergeant George Stewart, do E. 
Private B. Drummond, do F. 
do M. B. Stringer, do G. 
do A. Z. Coker, do H. 
do P. W. Rogers, do I. 
Sergeant A. E. Ford, do K. 173 
8th Regiment of Infantry : 
Private W. T. Robinson, Company A 
do J. H. Bond, do B. 
do W. J. Pitman, do C. 
Corporal G. B. Risher, , do D. 
Private S. T. Massey, do E. 
do D. F. Hilburn, do F. 
Corporal A. W. Atwood, do G. 
Private J. C. Lucy, do H. 
do Joel Foster, do I. 
do W. W. Watson, do K. 
9th Regiment of Infantry : 
Private T. E. Bowden,* do A. 
do Thomas Gill, do B. 
Color Sergeant L. E. McCrosky, do C. 
Sergeant George F. Duffy, do D. 
Private John McAfee,* do E. 
Corporal E W. Dowty, do F. 
Private W. T. Hollis, do G. 
do B. C. Lipscomb,* do H. 
Sergeant D. R. Biles, do I. 
Private W. H. Wheeler, ’ do K. 
41st Regiment of Infantry : 
Sergeant John A. Moore, do A 
Private A. W. Bell, do B 
do A. F. Anderson, do K 
do A Sanders, do F 
do Samuel N Richey, do G 
do G D Nelson, do K 
do P Ledbetter, do I 
do F Constantine, do K 
Corporal W M Baker, do L 
Companies B and C declined making selections. 
9th Battalion of Sharp Shooters: 
4th Sergeant M Murphy, do A 
1st Sergeant Joseph O’Brien, do A 
Sergeant Murphy was selected by Major Richards, 
commanding battalion. 
Companies B and C declined making selections, 
Stanford’s Light Battery : 
Private R'chard H Elliott. 
North Carclina. 
29th Regiment of Infantry : 
Corporal Abner B Freeman, . do A 
Private Thomas Elkin, do B ?9th Regiment of Infantry—Continued: 
Color Bearer James R Lanning, Company C 
1st Sergeant Ervin F Roberts, do it 
Corporal Willburn S Smith, do L 
Private Devania Millsaps,* do i 
do Abraham Hedrick, ‘io ” 
do James A Gillespie, do il 
do Thomas Willis, do 
do Robert King, d° 
39th Regiment of Infantry: 
Colonel David Coleman. 
Lieutenant Colonel Hugh H Davidson. 
Acting Adjutant Isaac S. Hyams. 
1st Lieutenant Abram Booker, do A 
do Wm T Anderson, do 1> 
Sergeant John C Rogers, d° A 
Private Wm T West, 10 " 
do James W Cobb, do C 
do James B A Staten, do V 
do Moses Fulbright, do F 
Sergeant John W Wiggins, d° * 
do John E More, . do 1 
Companies G and H made no selection—Company 
K not in action. 
South Carolina. 
10th Regiment of Infantry : 
1st Lieutenant C C White, r;° 
Private A J McCants, co “ 
do J S Beaty, do B 
do W D Hewitt, do C 
do G S Flowers, do 
Sergeant C W Cockfield,* «° £ 
Private G W Curry, 5 * 
do J Cannon, d° 7, 
do N Gray, do II 
do W H Poston, do 1 
do J W H Bunch* do K 
do J A. Briatwright, ‘J° 
Sergeant S. B. Rhuark, do M 
19th Regiment of Infantry : 
Colonel A J Lythgoe. 
Major John A Crowder. 
Private Benjamin W Boothe, do A 
do Samuel S Horne, t 0 " 
Sergeant W H Burkhultcr, . 
Private W A Bktk, do » 19th Regiment of Infantry—Continued: 
Private S D McCoy, Company E 
do Samuel Blood3worth, do F 
Sergeant Seth A Jones, do G 
Private James McClain, do H 
do James Jones, do I 
Sergeant Martin Yance, do K 
Tennessee. 
2a Regiment of Infantry : 
Color Sergeant John C Ferris. 
4th Regiment of Infantry: 
Sergeant J. B. Wendall, do B 
Corporal M R Brown, do C 
Private R L Matthews, do E 
do G M Whitson, do G 
Sergeant J F Seay, do H 
Private R W Mullins, do I 
5th Regiment of Infantry : 
Sergeant J P Hardcastle, do A 
2d Lieutenant Z B Hamrick, do B 
Color Sergeant W Davis, do C 
1 st Lieutenant W C Grissom, do C 
Captain R B Roberts, do D 
2d Lieutenant W B Masey, do E 
1st Lieutenant J B Blair, do G 
Sergeant J Swan, do G 
2d Lieutenant S R Richards, do H 
do W H Ballard, do L 
Corporal W F Diggs, do A 
2d Sergeant J A Aguilar, do B 
Sergeant L D Holland, do C 
Priyate W T Ballard, do D 
Corporal W A Thompson, do E 
Private J J Hagler, do F 
do DC Baucum, do G 
do W C Malin * do H 
do G W Costen,* do I 
Corporal J B Johnson, do K 
8th Regiment of Infantry: 
Private D T Purkins,* do A 
do R E Colston,* do B 
Sergeant J M Jones, do C 
do W J Armstrong,* do D 
do Willie Simmons,* do E 
1st Sergeant E B Little,* do F 
Pri’-ate R H Games* do G 176 
8th Regiment of Infantry—Continue 1: m 
Private T G Hall, Company H 
Sergeant J T Luna, do I 
Sergeant Major W H Holmon,* do K 
17th Regiment of Infantry : 
Col A S Marks. 
Lieutenant Colonel W W Floyd. 
Adjutant James Fitzpatrick. 
Captain F. B. Terry, do A. 
1st Lieutenant G. W. Corn, do D. 
do H. M. Kimsey, do B. 
2d Lieutenant M. W. Black, do E. 
Corporal John N. Lowery,* do A. 
Sergeant P. L. Shaffner, do B. 
do W. T. Jones, do C. 
do Robert Rollins, do D. 
Private J. D. Martin, do E. 
do John L. Conley, do F. 
do J. H. Gober, do G. 
do M. T. Liggett,* do H. 
do T. C. Mitcholl, do K. 
Company I declined making a selection. 
19th Regiment of Infantry : 
1st Sergeant Joseph Thompson, do I. 
do Ames C. Smith, do B. 
Sergeant Geo. N. Richardson, do K. 
The other companies declined making se- 
lections. 
23d Regiment of Infantry: 
Lieutenant Colonel R. H. Keeble. 
Captain W. H. Hunter, do G. 
do N. R. Allen, do E. 
Private W. G. Haynie, do A. 
do W. J. Pennington, do B. 
1st Sergeant J. N. Holt, do D. 
Private H. C. Haynes,* do E. 
do S. M. Foster, do C. 
do Jaspei M. Harris,* do F. 
1st Sergeant ffm. K. Kelly, do G. 
Corporal G. W. Jernyan, do H. 
24th Regiment of Infantry : 
Private R. H. Jones, do A- 
do Willis A. Jones, do B. 
do J. M. D. Sullivan, do C. 
Sergeant W H. H. Loftin, do D. 177 
24th Regiment of Infantry—Continued : 
Private Wm. Jordon, Company E- 
Color Bearer Cuthbert Ferrill, do F- 
Sergeant G. W Anderson, do G- 
Private Allen W. Williams, do . H* 
do R. A. Dean, do I* 
do Andrew J. Powers, do K- 
25tli Regiment of Infantry: 
This regiment declined making any se- 
lections. 
26th Regiment of Infantry: 
Private James Deatherage,* do A. 
do John H. Edmunds, do B. 
do Wm. T. Williams,* do C. 
do Wesley Collins, do D. 
do William Rice, do E. 
do William Wright, do F. 
do A. M. Brunson, . do H. 
do Washington Fuller, do I. 
do John Allred, do K. 
28th Regiment of Infantry: 
Captain Franklin Fowler, do I. 
1st Lieutenant James M. Lowe, do B. 
Private Elijah W. Greer, do A. 
do Thomas W. Patton, do B. 
do Lafatte Chilton, do C. 
do James A. Rash, do t G. 
Color Bearer Houston B. Graves, do F. 
Corporal John F. Moore, do G. 
Private Pinkney Craighead, do H. 
Sergeant Claiborne D. Griffith, do I. 
1st Sergeant J. R. Pirtle, do K. 
33d Regiment of Infantry : 
Corporal J. W. Mosier, do A. 
Private T. E. Mercer, do B. 
Sergeant J. C. Stublefield, do C. 
Private W. J. McDaniel, do D. 
do E. M. Arnold, do E. 
Sergeant George Parhorn,* do F. 
Private W. R. Gauntlett, do G. 
do J. L. Mizell,* do H. 
Sergeant J. E. Hays,* do I. 
Private J. D. Hill, do K. 
37th Regiment of Infantry: 
Major J. T. McReynolds. 44th Regiment of Infantry: 
Colonel John S. Fulton. 
Lieutenant Colonel J. L. McEwin. 
Major H. C. Ewin. 
Captain Samuel Jackson, Company I. 
Private James D. Stone, do B. 
do J. G. Heflin,* . do C. 
Corporal John W. Gill/ do F. 
do J. D. Crenshaw, do H. 
do Isaac Berry, do I. 
Private J. M. Sellers, do K. 
45th Regiment of Infantry : 
Private A. W. Loftin, do A. 
do J. H. Henderson, do B. 
do J. E. Watkins,* do C. 
Corporal P. C. F. Miller. do D. 
Private James Flowers,* do E. 
lsi Sergeant L. P. Cawthorn,* do F. 
Private A. T. Lanvin,* do G. 
Corporal B. A. Baird, do H. 
Sergeant Hugh Hope, do I. 
Private John W. Williams, do K, 
Darden’s Battery—This company declined to select. 
Stephen Artil'ery : 
Private James L. Gibbs* 
Jefferson Artillery: 
> Captain P. Darden. 
Major R. B. Snowden, Assistant Adjutant 
General. 
Captain’Douglas’ Battery: 
Corporal W. L. Waits. 
Texas. 
9th Regiment of Infantry: 
Lieutenant Colonel M. A. Dillard, 
Private F. M. Sellman, do A. 
do John Bradshaw, do C. 
do T. J. Cox, do D, 
Sergeant J. C. Hamilton, do E. 
Private J. M. Byrd, do F. 
do D. F. Moore, do G. 
do M. H. Dixon, do H. 
Sergeant G. W. Bodford, do K* 
Companies B and I declined making selec- 
tions. 179 
10th Regiment of Cavalry (dismounted) : 
Private Alexander Cook, Company A, 
do F. M. Rodgers, do B. 
Sergeant J. T. McGee, do C. 
do A. Sims,. do D. 
Private James Terry, do E. 
do W- W. Conley, do F. 
do Stokely Hutchins, do G. 
do J. O. Manning, do H. 
do Joel Reynolds, do I. 
do S. L. Birdwell, do K. 
14tli Regiment of Cavalry : 
Private W. R. Strapp, do A. 
do Jordon VVhelcher, do B. 
do Thomas A. Lattemer, do C. 
do ffra. D. Melton,* do D. 
Corporal John Wyche, do E. 
Private Wm Spencer, do F# 
do Geo W Woodall, do G# 
do Wm Hull, do H_ 
do Richard Stiles, do I 
do J V Keil, do K; 
32d Regiment of Cavalry, (formerly 15th): * 
Corporal James Rogers,* do G 
Private James W Clark,* do G 
1st Sergeant S L Easly, do 
Private E Watson, do I 
The other companies declined making selec- 
tions. 
9th Confederate Regiment: 
Col J A Smith, Commanding. 
Captain Jos H Brow. 
1 st Sergeant Wm Powers, do A 
do Wm Price. do B 
Private Hugh McHugh, do C 
1st Sergeant Walter Laracy, do D 
Private John Hogan, do E 
do Curran Kenny, do 
do Luther Hessey, do G 
Sergeant A P Burns, do H 
Battle of Chancellorsville. 
Alabama. 
3d Regiment of Infantry: 
Sargertut Walter Ransom, do C 
do Ellison, . do E 180 
Corporal H 11 Hardy, Company G 
Private C D Rouse, do H 
Corporal W H Powers, do K 
Companies A, B, D, F and L declined voting. 
5th Regiment of Infantry: 
Capiain W T Renfro, do B 
Private W P Stokes, do A 
do John Summers, do B 
do F M "Burnett, do C 
Sergeant John H Cowan, do D 
Private Louis H Thornton, do E 
Corporal Jno 0 Donohoe, do F 
Private N S Franklin, do G 
do R L Franklin, do II 
do H J Robertson, do I 
Corporal H F Martin, do K 
6th Regiment of Infantry: 
Private Mathew Benton, do A 
Sergeant J C Gamble, do B 
Private W H Digby, do C 
do H H Moore, do D 
Sergeant E O Baker, do E 
Corporal G P Jones, do F 
Private H L Jones, do G 
Sergeant D Madigan, do H 
Private James W Evans, do 1 
do HI Price, do K 
Sergeant H W Hale, do L 
Private D W Moorer, do M 
12th Regiment of Infantry: 
Captain H W Cox,* do B 
Private Louis Dotidure, do A 
do R W May, do B 
Sergeant Wm Lawess, do C 
Private J E Bailey, do’ D 
do C H Hunter, , do E 
do P W Chappell, do F 
do R B Mitchell, do G 
do W S Brown, do H 
do H N Wootan, do I 
do Thos Eady, do K 
26th Regiment of Infantry : 
1st Lieutenant E S Stuckey, do B 
Private L Walters, do A 
do Jos H Bounds, do B 
Sergeant J H Lockwell, do C 
Private J C Pennington, do D 
do Jos Murisel, do E 
do Jhmes H Dowdle, do F  Regiment of Infantry—Continued 
Corporal Jesse Parsons, Company G 
Private D H Spraddle, do H 
Sergeant D Butler, « do I 
Private B F Smith, do K 
Georgia, 
4th Regiment of Infantry: 
Private W Sparks,* . do A 
Sergeant Hill M Traylor,* d® B 
Color Corporal Jno T Moore,* ’ do C 
The other companies declined making selec- 
tions. 
14th Regiment of Infantry: 
Lieutenant Colonel J M Fielder.* 
Captain T T Mounger.* 
do R P Harman.* 
1st Lieutenant H A Solomon.* 
Private Daniel Kennington,* ' do B 
Corporal William Tomlinson, do C 
do Joseph G Dupree, ‘ do D 
2d Sergeant Thomas D Smith, do H 
Private James F D Thaxton,* do I 
do James M Brock, do K 
The other companies declined making selections. 
12th Regiment of Infantry: 
1st Lieutenant Thos W Harris, do C 
2d Lieutenant J A Walker, do B 
do W F Lowe, do F 
Private J L Batts, do A 
do Abel James, do B 
do S M Beavers, do C 
do W W Forrister, do D 
do R J Orr, do E 
1st Sergeant N M Howard, • do F 
Private Jas N Bullard, do G 
do Archibald McDonald, do H 
• 1st Sergeant B L Stevens, do I 
Private W H Burgamy, do K 
35th Regiment of Infantry: 
Corporal Jackson Baggett, do A 
Private A S W Bass, do B 
£nd Sergeant J A Cochran, do C 
Private Rolley Willingham, do D 
do DP White, • do E 
do R D B Holt, do F 
do WE Moore, do G 182 
35th Regiment of Infantry—Continued. 
Private Absalom Martin, Company H 
do Lewis Milligan, do I 
do DM Pearce, • do K 
44th Regiment of Infantry : 
Private James Fambrough,* do C 
do James A McNatt,* do F 
The,other companies declined making selections. 
45th Regiment of Infantry.: 
Captain Win H Shaw.* 
Private Jno D Pate,* do A 
do Jno H King, do C 
do James M Lawrence, do E 
do James P Green, do F 
do Jno S Bonner, do G 
do H W Dent, do H 
do W W Wilson, do I 
do M H Fitzpatrick, do K 
Company 13 declined making a selection. 
49th Regiment of Infantry : 
Sergeant H A Hall, . do A 
Private Lewis White, do B 
Sergeant M Watkins, do .* C 
do W T Moore,* de D 
Corporal James Hollingsworth,* do E 
do L D Taylor, do F 
do J N Jordon. do G 
Private Joseph Bell, do H 
do F B Pool, do t 
do James Taylor,* do K 
21st Regiment ol Infantry—Declined making selections. 
North Carolina. 
2d Regimeut; 
Sergeant John E Banner, do A 
Private W H Flowers, do B 
Sergeant T E Ellis, do • C 
Corporal S Felton, do D 
Sergeant J T Booth, do E 
Corporal J E May, do F 
Private Thomas Williford, do G 
do Simeon Graddy, do H 
do Aaron A Pitt, do I 
Corporal Charles Catler, do K 
4th Regiment of Infantry: 
3ergtehtft W 3 Sbuffcrd,* do A 4th Regiment of Infantry—Continued, 
Private Jacob W Wilhelm,* Corot'anv B 
Sergeant Jos W Leggett ,* do E 
Private G W Shivis,* do H 
do William H Barrow,* do I 
do W R Josey,* do K 
The other companies declined making selections. 
15th Regiment of Infantry : 
Private William Henry Medlin, do A 
do Richard H Briggs, d*o B 
do Newitt D Bridges, do C 
do J M Guilford, do D 
Corporal Monroe Cruise, - do E 
do Patrick H Robbins, do G 
Private Thomas Felton, . do H 
Color Corporal Francis Bradshaw, do K 
7th Regiment of Infantry: 
2d Lieutenant A M Walker, do K 
Corporal Win II Milstead, do A 
Sergeant Wm G Sawyers, do B 
Corporal Phillips Strickland, do C 
Sergeant Thomas Brinkle, do D 
Private E H Eure, do E 
do Edward Williams, do F 
Corporal J W Smith, do G 
Sergeant R M Caldwell, do H 
Private T L Purdie, do I 
Sergeant J S McCurdy, do K 
12th Regiment of Infantry : 
Private D B Hoover, do A 
Corporal Samuel Alston Ward, do C 
Private T A Stone, do D 
Sergeant L M Willi3,* do E 
Private Jerry Draper, do F 
do J E Hux, do G 
A L Barnes, do H 
Jno W Arrington, do I 
Jno R Johnson,* do K 
14th Regiment of Infantry: 
Private Henry B Sanders, do C 
Sergeant J F Goforth, do D 
do Urias Pool,* do E 
do J M Whitmire, do F 
do JR Smith,* do G 
Corpora] C M Smith, • do I 
Sergeant L N Keith, do K 
Companies A, B and II declined making selections. IGth Regiment of Infantry: 
1st Lieutenant C L Robinson,* Company H 
do A M Roberts,* do M 
Private F Riley, do B 
Corporal W H Wiggins, do C 
Private K C Blanton, do D 
do Lawrence Cook, do E 
Corporal A M Madows, do F 
Private J W Williford,* do G 
do BP Jacobs, do H 
1st Sergeant T L Williams,* do I 
Corporal J J Blackwell,* do K 
Color Sergeant John A Carpenter, do M 
20tli Regiment of Infantry: 
Corporal C A Patterson, do A 
Private i) R A Ellis, do B 
Corporal Richard Faulk, do C 
Private Josiah Hudson, do II 
do Newberne Tew, - do I 
do Thomas N Morris, do K 
23d Regiment of Infantry: 
Private J D Birmingham,* do A 
do A Hedick, do B 
Sergeant Brantley Harris,* do C 
Private N C Morrison,* do I) 
do Samuel Clarke, do E 
do W A Tpwell,* do F 
do T M Tamason, do G 
do J C Ford,* do H 
do Robert flesler, do • I 
do J F Killian,* do K 
30th Regiment of Infantry: 
Private Jno R Holland,* do A 
, do Wm. J. McDowell, do C 
Sergeant J W J House, do F 
Private William McCauley, do H 
do EM Bales, do K 
Companies B, D, E, G and I made no decision. 
34th Regiment of Infantry: 
Private Methias Brown, do A 
do Walace Winn, do B 
Sergeant George W Koone, do C 
Private Obadiah Eller, do D 
1st Sergeant David M Taylor, do E 
Sergeant Thomas S Shufford,* do F 
1st Sergeant Charles B Todd, do G 
Private Samuel Dellingner, do H 185 
34th Regiment of Infantry—Continued, 
Sergeant Elisha Robbins, Company I 
Privates Joseph Hogan, do K 
37th Regiment of Infantry : 
Private W J Goss, do A 
Sergeant J E Farchild, do B 
do B F Brown, do C 
Private Jno L Austin, do D 
do J E'Coffee, do E 
do William Kelly, do F 
Corporal J A Rolinett, do G 
Sergeant G W McKee, do H 
do John Tally, do I 
Private M I) L Parsons, do K 
38th Regiment of Infantry : 
Adjutant D M Mclntire. 
Lieutenant A J Brown. 
Private Jesse Nethercut, do A 
do Thomas Dinkins, do B 
do Benjamin Sutton, do C 
1st Sergeant David A Thomson, do D 
Private W J Hutchinson,* do E 
do W M S Huffman, do F 
Corporal W T Matheson, do G 
do D P Woodb'irn, do H 
Private T. J Ramsey, do I 
do W H McPhaul, do K 
South Carolina, 
1st Regiment of Infantry : 
Private W H Cooper, do A 
do J P Hunter,* do B 
do A P Abbott* do C 
do Jesse R Hays,* do K 
do Benjamin Barnhill,* do F 
do G W Smith,* do G 
do Albert P Yournans, do H 
do R VV Perry, do 1 
do James McNab,* do K 
do A J Simpson, do L 
13th Regiment of Infantry: 
Sergeant J A McCollum,* do D 
Private James Johnson,* do E 
Jno M Pilcard, do G 
T C Corley, do K 
14th Regiment of Infantry: 
Sergeant J M Carter,* do A 186 
14th Regiment of Infantry-Continued. 
Private Caleb Hare,* Company B 
do Olivant P Walker,* do D 
do C Hughes, do E 
Sergeant Z L Nabors,* do F 
Private James White,* do G 
Sergeant R J Wade, do H 
do John E Brownlee, do I 
Private M C Little,* do K 
Orr’s Rifles : 
Sergeant L A Ward law, do B 
Private Sam’l P Moore, do t 
do J Marian Mattison, do G 
Virginia. 
4th Regiment of Infantry : 
Captain M Harmon* * do G 
Lieutenant M G W Peterman,* do E 
Captain John H Fulton, do A 
Lieutenant James F Cecil, do C 
do P Hogan, do H 
do WB Carder, do D 
Adjutant William Wade. 
Sergeant Harold J Matthews, do A 
do Charles W Garlick, do B 
Private William A Chumbley, do 
do Edward Harrison, do D 
Sergeant Charles L Gordon, do E 
Corporal George V Byrd, * do 1? 
do Peter H Marrow, do G 
Private Ribben D Henderson,* do H 
do Nathan A Lackey,* do I 
do George W Pace, do L 
27th Regiment of Infantry : 
Sergeant J H Holley, do E 
Private J O Cook, do 
do W H Parker," do P 
do E H Norgrove," do H 
do Hugh King, do B 
Corporal John Baker, do C 
do Isaac Beeson, do G 
40th Regiment of Infantry: 
Private George W Dudley," do A 
do Robert H Wilson, do B 
do Peter M Hall, do C 
do Henry Bartlett, do D 
do Hiram Purcell, do E 
Orr’s Rifles : 40th Regiment of Infantry—Continued. 
1st Sergeant Thomas Cockrell,’*1 Company F 
Private Joseph McCave, do G 
Corporal John T Ford,* do H 
do George Cornwell, do I 
1st Sergeant Jno B Garland,* do K 
55th Regiment of Infantry: 
Corporal C R Sheppard,* do A 
Sergeant William Smith, do C 
Corporal Ro Hall, do E 
Sergeant Thos B Fogg,* do F 
Private Thomas Dodson, do K 
do Jno Haydon,* do L 
do George T. Newton,* do M 
Battle of Gettysburg. 
9th Georgia Regiment of Infantry: 
Lieutenant Colonel John C Mounger. 
Private P B Millican,* do B 
do Thos J Michael, do C 
do James W. Mann, do D 
Corporal Joseph A Hough, do E 
Private Jesse McCullar,* do F 
do John Mills, do G 
do Chesley Aldeman, do H 
Corporal Luther J Copeland,* do I 
Private Henry T Daniel, do K 
Private Henry T Daniel was afterwards killed at Funkstown, 
Md., July 10th, 1863. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
asterisks designate those killed in action. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 132. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l's Office, 
Richmond, Oct. 5, 1863. 
I. Cadets, having been required by General Orders, No. 65, 
Sept. 9, 1862, to report to this office those who have not com- 
plied with the terms of that order, and who fail to do so, either 
personally or by letter, for the ensuing thirty days, will be 
dropped from the rolls of the army. 
II. “ Officers of the Quartermaster General’s and Commissary 
Departments, who are iu charge of depots, will receive from olSa» 188 
cers collecting the tax in kind, and receipt for all produce be- 
longing to their respective departments which may be invoiced 
to them, and provide storehouses for the same.” 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 133. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, Oct. 5, 1863. 
I. The Chief of the Nitre and Mining Bureau is directed, 
through the officers of his bureau, to impress copper, coal, and 
such other minerals as may be needed for the use of the govern- 
ment. 
II. The provisions of paragraph I, General Orders, No. 67, 
current scries, is extended to officers of the conscription bureau. 
The payments authorized will be made out of the funds appro- 
priated for the support of that bureau. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 134. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Oct. 13, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Martial, convened by virtue of Gene- 
ral Orders, No. 133, from Head Quarters Army of Northern 
Virginia, Doc.7, 1863, was arraigned and tried: 
Second Lieutenant J. M. Youngblood, Co. B, 2d Miss. Battal- 
ion, on the following Charge and Specification: 
Charge—Violation of the 45th Article of War. 
Specification—In this, that the said Second Lieutenant J. M. 
Youngblood, Co. B, 2d Miss. Battalion, was drunk and disorder- 
ly on “dress parade” and in camp on or about the evening of 
November 3, 1862. All this occurring near Culpeper Court- 
eouse, in Culpeper county, in the State of Virginia. 
II. Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
The Court, after due consideration, find the accused, Second 
Lieut. J. M. Youngblood, 2d Miss. Battalion, as follows; 189 
Of the Specification, . . ; . Guilty. 
Of the Charge, ..... Guilty. 
And do therefore sentence him to be cashiered. 
II. The proceedings in the foregoing case having been laid be- 
fore the Secretary of War, for the decision of the President 
are by him approved; but in consideration of the previous so- 
briety and good conduct of Lieut. Youngblood, the sentence is 
remitted, and he will be restored to duty. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 135. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, Oct. 15,1863. 
I. Recruiting officers and others are forbidden to grant per- 
mits to conscripts or deserters, allowing them to visit their 
homes, or to remain there for any purpose. The notice already 
given conscripts is deemed sufficient, and deserters are not enti- 
tled to indulgence. 
II. All parties who have received exemption papers for disa- 
bility other than those granted for permanent and decided disa- 
bility, must be re-examined, and the law which there is reason 
to believe is too often evaded, be In these, and in all cases, strictly 
enforced. 
III. Men employed to aid enrolling officers must, if subject to 
conscription, be regularly enrolled ; and unless detailed for the 
special duty in question by written orders of the War Depart- 
ment, will be reported to the Bureau of Conscription, to be dis- 
posed of as in other cases. 
IV. Officers will be held to strict account for any violation or 
neglect of these orders. 
Y. The provisions of paragraph I, General Orders, No. 67, 
current series, is extended to officers of Major A. II. Cole’s de- 
partment. The payments authorized will be made by any post 
quartermaster. 
VI. Ollicers and soldiers in the general service cannot be 
transferred to local companies, and applications therefore will 
not be entertained. 
By order. S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 136. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Oct. 21, 1863. 
Paragraph III, General Orders, No. 100, Adjutant and Inspec- 
tor General’s office last series, is so amended as to authorize pay- 
ment of the money Rvalue of clothing which may be due ihe 
8 )ldier at the end of the year, as therein provided, upon descrip- 
tive lists, when he is absent from his command by proper au- 
thority at the time, and will be prevented from rejoining it with- 
in sixty days thereafter. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 137.* 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Oct. 22, 1863. 
The authority of Commandants of Conscripts to make details 
for enrolling service of officers and soldiers coming within their 
jurisdiction, under the 2d clause of paragraph II of General Or- 
ders, No. 82, and paragraph V of General Orders, No. 96, of 
1862, is hereby extended, so that they may employ such persons 
in the duties of rail road guards, bridge or ferry guards, or in 
the protection of public property, at the request of the officers of 
the staff departments or of local military commanders. Special 
reports will be made of all such details, to the Bureau of Con- 
scription. 
They may also detail, in like manner, until the recovery of 
health, any convalescents borne on the rolls of general hospitals, 
who may be reported to them by the hospital hoards as unable to 
take the field, but fit for light dutv : the details to cease at the 
time that may be indicated by the examinations of the hospital 
boards. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS,' 
No. 138. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Oct. 24, 1863. 
The following instructions are published for carrying into ef- 
* Revoked by Par. I, General Orders, No. 15, 1S’64. 191 
feet the 9th section of the Act of 26th March, 1863, to regulate 
impressments, in repect to labor on fortifications and other pub- 
lic works, in States in which provisions have not been made on 
this subject: 
1. The commanding general or the officer of engineers in 
charge of the work, shall have power to decide upon th8 necessi- 
ty for making impressments of slaves for this purpose, after 
making suitable efforts to secure the necessary laborers by con- 
tract. lie must be satisfied of the necessity of the measure be- 
fore he resorts to it. 
2. II« may authorize the impressment of male slaves between 
the ages of seventeen and fifty years, but before the first day of 
December next shall abstain from impressing slaves from plan- 
tations exclusively devoted to the production of grain and provis- 
ions, without the consent of the owner, except in cases of urgent 
necessity. 
3. No impressments shall be made of the slaves employed in 
the domestic and family service exclusively, nor upon farms or 
plantations where there are not more than three slaves of the age 
specified, and not more than five per cent, of the population of 
slaves shall be impressed in any county at the same time, unless 
the necessity is very great, and after consultation with this de- 
partment or the Governor of the State in which th8 impressment 
is to be made. 
4. The ordinary period for impressment shall be sixty days, 
but if the owner of any slave shall fail to bring the slaves im- 
pressed to the place of rendezvous within five days after the time 
appointed, the slaves so withheld may he detained for ninety 
days, aud for a longer term of ten days for every day of default, 
unless a reasonable excuse be given for the delays that have oc- 
curred, 
5. It shall be the duty of the commanding general in charge of 
any lines requiring fortification, to acquaint himself with the re- 
sources of slave labor within his department, and to consider 
with care the manner in which he may obtain the control of 
whatever is necessary for the public service, by fair and equita- 
ble apportionment among the owners of such property. He will 
consult with the Governor of the State and other State authori- 
ties, as to the best mode of proceeding, so that his impressment 
may cause the least embarrassment to the industrial pursuits of 
the community. 
6. Notices shall he given of the number and character of the 
slaves required, the time and place of their delivery, the time for 
which the service is required, and of the arrangements made for 
the subsistence, management aud custody of the slaves so re- 
quired ; and if the masters of slaves shall agree to furnish sub- 
sitrtsaos fer Ursir glorrss, aad a suitable even's?* cr egent to ra- 192 
perintend them, they shall have the privilege of so doing. But 
such overseers shall be subject to the control Of the officer ifi 
charge, and may be dismissed for any misconduct by him. 
7. The sum of twenty dollars per month for each slave deliv- 
ered in pursuance to requisition, and fifteen dollars per month 
for each sla ve held in consequence of f ilure of his master to 
obey requisition made as herein before provided, shall be paid by 
the Confederate States, and soldiers’ rations, medicines and medi- 
cal attendance furnished; and the value of all such slaves as 
may die during their term of service or thereafter, from injuries 
received or diseases contracted in such service, or may not be re- 
turned, shall be paid by the Confederate States. Such value 
shall be conclusively established by a formal appraisement by a 
board of experts mutually agreed upon at the time the slaves are 
received into the Confederate service. Compensation shall also 
be made for all injuries to slaves arising from the act of the pub- 
lic enemy, or from any injury arising from a want of due dili- 
gence on the part of authorities of the Confederate States. But 
the Confederate States will not be liable for any slave not re- 
turned by reason of fraud or collusion on the part of the owner 
or his agent, or the overseer selected by him to superintend 
them, nor if his death should be caused by the act'of God, or by 
disease existing when the slave is received by Confederate au- 
thorities. 
8. Subsistence and provisions furnished by the owner shall be 
commuted for at the rates allowed soldiers in service. All slaves 
sent voluntarily to the Confederate authorities, and accepted by 
them, without other bpecial contract, shall stand on the same 
footing as those delivered under requisition ; and the owners of 
all slaves delivered or taken under requisition shall be entitled 
to regard the Confederate States as contracting with them to com- 
ply with the obligations and conditions herein expressed. 
9. In case there should be any disagreement on the subject of 
the value of any slave impressed, or in case the impressing offi- 
cer shall not be satisfied of the accuracy of any valuation or val- 
uations, the appraisement shall be referred to the appraisers ap- 
pointed under the 5th section of the Act concerning impress- 
ments, according to the provisions of the Act of Congress ap- 
proved 27th April, 1863, and published in Orders, No. 53, cur- 
rent series. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 193 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 139. 
Abj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, OcL 28, 1863. 
1. The President having commuted or remitted the sentences 
pronounced by General Courts Martial in the following cases, his 
decision is published for the information and guidance of all con- 
cerned : 
1. Lieut. E. M. P. Brown, Company B, 8th Battalion Georgia 
Volunteers. Charged with failure to suppress mutiny, and 
exciting and joining therein. 
Sentence—Death. 
2. First Sergt. Abner Underwood, Company D, 8th Battalion 
Ga. Volunteers ; also, 
3. Private T. P. Wood; 
4. Private T. W. Cannon; 
5. Private Wm. Garner ; and 
6. Private T. Roberts, 
of Company B, 8th Battalion Ga. Volunteers. Charged with 
exciting and joining in mutiny. 
Sentence—Death. 
7. Private Daniel Hollis, Company B, 8th Battalion Ga. Volun- 
teers. Charged with exciting and joining in mutiny. 
Sentence—Confinement with ball and chain for twelve months, 
and forfeiture of pay. 
The aforesaid parties were all tried by General Court Martial, 
convened under General Orders, No. 3, of 1863, Department of 
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. In view of the evident 
want of discipline in this battalion, the President has remitted 
the sentences of all the parties. Lieut. Brown, Sergt. Under- 
wood, and Privates Wood, Cannon, Garner, Roberts and Hollis, 
will therefore be released from confinement and returned to duty. 
The Department observes with regret the absence of a just 
military discipline in the above named battalion. Had this been, 
properly observed and enforced, there is reason to believe these 
trials would have been obviated. The officers in charge are re- 
sponsible for these evils, and must correct them. At the same 
time they should observe towards the soldiers in their command 
a proper degree of consideration and kindness, which is generally 
a sure means of securing obedience and respect. II,—8. Private Stephen Outlaw, of Troop A, 5th Ga. Cavalry. 
Charged with desertion. 
Sentence—Death. 
Tried by General Court Martial, convened under General 
Orders, No. 22, of February &, 1863, Department of South 
Carolina, Georgia and Florida. This is sot properly a case of 
desertion. The prisoner escaped tho guard while undergoing 
sentence. He should have been returned to complete his sentence,, 
if there was no other charge against him than that for an escape. 
Private Outlaw will be released from confinement aad returned 
to duty. 
9. Lieut. Col. A. C. Edwards. Charged with violating the 
52d, 83d and 99th Articles of War. 
Tried by Court, convened under Special Orders, No. 118, Head 
Quarters Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida,. 
July 28, 1862. 
Sentence—Suspension from rank and' command, without pay, 
for eighteen months. Commuted to reprimand in General Orders. 
The sentence in the case of Lieut. Col. Edwards was a just 
consequence of an unbecoming disregard of official obligations 
on his part. In directing his release from arrest and restoration 
to duty, the Department indulges the hope tha't this exercise of 
Executiye clemency may have its due effect in exciting him to a 
stricter vigilance: and a more exemplary discharge of duty in the 
future. 
10. Lieut. James M. Chesser, 47th Ga. "Volunteers. Charged 
with defamation of character, mutiny and incompetency. 
Tried by Court, convened under General Orders, No. 11, of 
January 29, 1863, from Division Head Quarters, Wilmington, Nv 
C., issued in pursuance of General Orders, No. 14, Department 
of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. 
Sentence—Dismission from service, with forfeiture of pay and1 
allowances. 
The record in this case is incomplete. Ths proceedings, find- 
ing and sentence ar6 disproved: and Lieut. Chesser will be re- 
leased from arrest and returned to duty, 
ill.—11. Second Lieut. J'. J, Wortham, Waccamaw Light 
Charged -with sending a challenge, and with conduct 
to the prejudice of good order and military discipline. 
Senfcnti—To be cashiered, Commuted to zepri-mand in General'. 
Order*. 12. Second Lieut* W, J. Gore, -Waeeatnaw Light Artillery 
Charged with carrying a challenge. 
Sentence—To be cashiered. Commuted to reprimand in General 
Orders. 
13. Lieut. L. A. Rice, 2d Regiment S. C. Volunteers. Charged 
with sending and accepting a challenge to tight a duel. 
Sentence—To be cashiered. 'ComnKited te reprimand in General 
Orders. 
Lieuts. Wortham, Gore and Rice, were trie 1 by n General Court 
Martial, convened under General Orders, No. 70, of May 20, 
1863, Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. 
The Articles of War expressly prohibit the sending of chal- 
lenges to light; and all seconds, promoters and carriers of chal- 
lenges are deemed principals, and directed to be punished as 
such—i. e. by being cashiered. 
Tire offences cf which these officers have been convicted are 
thus seen to be of a very grave character, and cannot be regarded 
with toleration. Dueling is a military not less than a moral 
offence. It is unfortunate if the error prevails in the army that 
punishment will not be inflicted on those who violate the laws of 
the service respecting it; and the Department avails itself of this 
occasion to express its unqualified reprobation of the practice, 
and of the conduct of the accused in the foregoing trials. 
Lieut. Chesser appears to have rested under an honest misap- 
prehension as to his duty to a brother officer, ie bearing a chal- 
lenge ; and the records present in the cases of Lieuts. Wortham 
and Rice, certain mitigating circumstances which to some extent 
justify the recommendations to clemency made by their superior 
officers. » 
These considerations, in connection with the too generally pre- 
vailing misapprehension in the army, already adverted to, have 
determined the Executive so far to respect the appeals made hi 
behalf of these officers as to direet the commutation of their re- 
spective sentences. They will accordingly be released from arrest 
and restored to duty with their proper companies, 
14. Lieut. W. C. Pruitt, Company E, 20th S. C. Volunteers, 
Tried under Special Orders, No. 105, March 10, 1863, Depart- 
ment of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, for intoxication 
while on duty. 
Sentence—To be dismissed the service. No evidence was su 
Knitted with the record in this case. 
In consideration of the recommendation of the Commanding 
General, the sentence is remitted ; and Lieut. Pruitt will be re- 
leased from arrest and returned to dutv. 15. Private C. H. Kent, Company D, 18th Virginia Battalion, 
Charged with desertion, and eondwct to the prejudice of good 
order and military discipline. 
Sentence—Six months’ hard labor with ball and chain. To 
wear a placard with the word “ forger” legibly printed thereon, 
for the period of six months. 
Tried by General Court Martial, under General Orders, No. 7» 
of October 11, 1862, Head Quarters, Richmond, Va. 
The sentence is remitted, and Private Kent will be released 
from confinement, and assigned to a company in the Army of 
Northern Virginia. 
16. Private Major Kunnells, Company 31, 2d S. C. Rifles. 
Tried hy General Court Martial, convened under General 
Orders, No. 4, of August 4, 1863. 
Sentence—Death. Remitted: and Private RunneUs will bo 
released from confinement and returned to his company. 
17. Capt. R. Y. L. Long, Company D, Phillips’ Legion of 
Cavalry. Charged with disobedience of orders and breach of 
arrest. 
Sentence—To be cashiered. Remitted: and Capt. Long will 
be released from arrest and returned to his company. 
Tried under Special Orders, No. 205, of August 11, 1863, De- 
partment of Northern Virginia. 
18. Capt. R. Z. Harlee, Company D, 10th S. C. Volunteers. 
Charged with drunkenness. 
Sentence—To be cashiered. Remitted: Capt. Harlee will be 
released from arrest and returned to duty. 
Tried by Csurt, convened under Special Orders, No. 134, May 
20, 1863, from the Army of Tennessee. 
19. Private Henry Taylor, Company F, 11th Miss. Volunteers. 
Charged with theft. 
Sentence—To have his head shaved. To be labeled with the 
word “theftmarched through camp, hat off, wearing a barrel 
—the rogue’s march to be played during the time. To be con- 
fined in th8 Penitentiary two years, and fed on bread and water 
fourteen days. 
Sentence remitted. Private Taylor will be released from con- 
finement and transferred to some other army. 
Tried by Court, convened under General Orders, No. 133, of 
Doc. 7, 1862, Army of Northern Virginia. 20. Private Freeman W. Johnson, Head’s Battery Light Artil- 
lery. Charged with disobedience of orders—violation of the 9th 
Article of War. 
Sentence—Death. Commuted to labor for four months, and 
transferred to some other command. 
Tried by Court, convened under General Orders, No. 133, of 
December 7, 1802, Army of Northern Virginia. 
21. Private John Duncan, Company F, 3d Tenn. Volunteers. 
Charged with absence without leave. Illegal and outrageous as- 
saults on a citizen. Brutal assaults on a woman, attempt to com- 
mit rape on two occasions. # 
Sentence—Forfeiture of pay and allowances, and imprison- 
ment for twenty-five years. 
Residue of sentence remitted. Private Duncan will be released 
from confinement and returned to his company. 
Tried by Court, convened under General Orders, No. 36, De- 
partment of East Tennessee. 
22. Second Lieut. E. II, Hammell, Company B, 8th Ark. Vol- 
unteers. Charged with quitting his guard without leave, &c. 
Sentence—To be dismissed. Commuted to two months’ sus- 
pension from rank and pay. 
Tried by Military Court of Gen. Hardee’s Corps, May 26, 
1863. 
23. Private T. W. Barlow, of Game’s Light Artillery. Charged 
with violating the 46th Article of War, by sleeping on post. 
Sentence—Death. Remitted: and Private Barlow will be re- 
leased from confinement and returned to his company. 
Tried by Court, convened under General Orders, No. 66, of 
March 13, 1863, Army of Tennessee. 
24. Lieut. J. R. Simmons, Company E, 12th Ga. Volunteers. 
Charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman. 
Sentence—To be dismissed. Commuted to reprimand in orders; 
which will accordingly be done by his commanding officer. 
Tried by the Military Court of Gen. Ewell’s Corps, August 6, 
1863. 
25. Lieut. E. S. McClung, McClung’s Battery. Charged with 
violation of the 15th and 39th Articles of War, and conduct to 
the prejudice of good order and military discipline. 198 
Sentence—To be cashiered, and disabled to hold any office or 
employment in the service of the Confederate States; to have 
his name, crime and place of abode published in the newspapers 
in and about the camp of Knoxville, and of Huntsville, Alabama: 
after which it shall be deemed scandalous for an officer to associ- 
with him. 
Sentence—Commuted to dismissal from the Confederate service 
—*vhich Lient. McClung ceased to b© an officer on the 14th of 
Pebruary, 1863, 
IV. The 89th Article of War provides, that_ where the sentence 
of a Court Martial is death, or the cashiering of an officer, the 
officer convening the Court may suspend execution of the sen- 
tence till the pleasure of The President of the Confederate States 
be known. 
The intent of this article is not to relieve Commanding Gen- 
erals of responsibility, but to enable them, in difficult and doubt- 
ful cases, to refer the question to higher authority. But it has 
been observed that in manyjfases, where the course to be pur- 
sued was rendered obvious by the evidence, commanding officers 
have nevertheless availed themselves of the privilege conferred 
in the article referred to, by sending on the record to be reviewed 
by the President. The duties of the Executive are sufficiently 
onerous without the accumulation of such matters for his atten- 
tion, whero they can be properly disposed of elsewhere; and 
while it is not designed to weaken the provisions of the articles 
of war, or interfere with the views of duty entertained by officers 
<m this subject, it is proper to remark, that there are cases of 
capital punishment and dismissal, where the duty of the Com- 
manding General is rendered by the Court record too plain to he 
doubted, and in which the responsibility “ in time of war” being 
fixed upon him in the first instance by the law, should not be 
avoided. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 140. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, Oci. 27,1863. 
The assignment of conscripts will be directed by the Bureau of 
Conscription only, except such as may bo properly made by 
Brigadier General Pillow, within the territory allotted to him, in 
subordination to General J. E. Johnston. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 141. 
Adj‘t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Omcs, 
Richmond, Oct. 29, 1863. 
I. The practice of relieving officers from commands to which 
they have been appointed and assigned, and ordering them to re- 
port in person to this office for further assignment, will cease, un- 
less specially required by orders from this office. 
II. Soldiers returning home on furlough, or on reaching places 
at which they will stay during furlough, will immediately report 
to the nearest enrolling officer, who will keep a register of their 
names, descriptive list, place where stationed, by whom the fur- 
lough was granted, and the time at which it expires. 
III. When, at the expiration of his furlough, and being at a 
distance from an hospital examining board, a soldier is unable to 
travel, the enrolling officer will order him before the board of ex- 
aminers for conscripts ; any the medical officer and one of the 
physicians “employed” concurring, they will forward to his 
Commanding General, with a statement of his case, a recommen- 
dation for an extension of furlough, not to exceed thirty days, 
duplicates being also sent to the Surgeon General. But when 
the soldier is accessible to a general hospital, he will be sent be- 
fore the hospital examining board, who will conform to the pre- 
ceding instructions.* 
IV. In cases of sickness or wounds, which, from any cause, 
are neglected, or do not receive proper treatment, the disability 
in consequence being prolonged, the soldier will be sent, by the 
enrolling officer, to the nearest camp of instruction for treatment 
in hospital. 
V. Recommendations for extension of leave to officers and fur- 
loughs to soldiers, and medical certificates to officers and certifi- 
cates of disability for discharge to soldiers, will only he given by 
authorized boards of examiners ; or, in cases embraced in para- 
graph III of this Order, by the board of examiners for con- 
scripts. Recommendations or certificates from private physi- 
ci ms, or from a medical officer singly, will not be received. Para- 
graphs 171 and 173, General Regulations, and paragraph I, Gen- 
eral Orders, No. 51, current series, from this office, are amended 
to accord with this paragraph 
VT. Furloughed soldiers will not be permitted to go within the 
lines of the enemy. 
* Amended by Par, II, General Orders, No. 157. 200 
VII. In the medical examination of substitutes, the instruc- 
tions and requirements of paragraph 1192, General Regulations 
(paragraph 48, Medical Regulations), will be fully adhered to; 
and if a substitute fails to meet the conditions of that paragraph, 
he will be rejected. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 142. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office’ 
Richmond, Oct. 30, 1863. 
I. The requirements of the army making it necessary that the 
present supply of artillery horses and other field transportation 
be carefully husbanded, and a more perfect system of supply 
adopted, Major A. H. Cole, Inspector General of Field Trans- 
portation, in addition to his present duties, is hereby charged 
with this duty. 
II. Under his orders, all inspections, purchases, impressments 
and issues of field transportation (including artillery horses), 
will be made, and recruiting, fabricating and repairing done 
throughout the Confederate States; and all other officers are pro- 
hibited from purchasing or disposing of this description of pro- 
perty, except such as may be specially authorized to purchase by 
the Commanding General of an army, whose field of operation in 
such cases shall be confined to the limits of the army and the 
country immediately in the advance; and under no circumstances 
will such officers be allowed to purchase within any district of 
country to which a regularly appointed purchasing officer has 
been assigned. 
III. The Quartermaster General is authorized to district the 
Confederate States for the purposes named, and will assign offi- 
cers to the duty, who will control the subject within their re- 
spective districts, nnder such rules and regulations as he may es- 
tablish. 
IV. Officers charged with inspection of field transportation 
ale authorized to make inspections anywhere within the limits of 
their assignment, and to condemn, and order to be turned in to 
the nearest post quartermaster, all artillery horses and other 
transportation found unserviceable, to be so disposed of as the 
chief inspector of the district may direct. 
"\ . Chief quartermasters of armies or quartermasters at posts other than those in the field, will make their estimates on the 
chief inspector of the district for such field transportation as they 
may require. When necessary for the protection of parties col- 
lecting animals near the enemy’s lines, a cavalry escort will bo 
furnished by the nearest commander of troops. 
VI. The horses and other property in use in the Commissary 
Department must not be impressed by officers of any other de- 
partment. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 143. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’i/s Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 3, 18G3. 
The following notice of exchanged officers and men is pub- 
lished for the information of all concerned : 
Richmond, Va., Oct. 16, 1863. 
The following Confederate officers and men are hereby de- 
clared duly exchanged : 
1. All officers and men captured and paroled at any time pre- 
vious to the 1st of September, 1863. This section, however, is 
not intended to include any officers or men captured at Vicks- 
burg July 4th, 1863, except such as were declared exchanged by 
Exchange Notice, No. 6, Sept. 12th, 1863, or are specially named 
in this notice. But it does embrace all deliveries made at City 
Point or other places before Sept. 1st, 1863, and with the limita- 
tion above named, all captures at Port Hudson or any other place 
where the parties were released on parole. 
2. The staff of Generals Pemberton, Stevenson, Bowen, Moore, 
Barton, S. D. Lee, Cummings, Harris and Baldwin, and of Col- 
onels Reynolds, Cockrell and Dockery ; the officers and men be- 
longing to the engineer corps and sappers and miners, and the 
4th and 46th Mississippi regiments, all captured at Vicksburg 
July 4th, 1863. 
3. The general officers captured at Vicksburg July 4th, 1863, 
were declared exchanged July 13th, 1863. 
Bo. Ould, 
Agent of Exchange. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 144. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office 
Richmond, November 0, 1863. 
To relieve prevalent misconceptions in regard to the policy 
and practice of the Department on the subject of impressment, 
the following, being extracts of General Orders of March 19th, 
is repeated: 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 31. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, March 19, 1863. 
In consequence of numerous applications made by various 
persons to the War Department, it is obvious that 8ome miscon- 
ception in regard to the instructions of the Secretary of War in 
relation to the impressment of supplies, must exist on the part 
of the people, or that the agents of the government have vio- 
lated their instructions: Now, therefore, for the purpose of re- 
moving such misconception, and to prevent any violation of those 
instructions, it is hereby ordered: 
I. That no officer of the government shall, under any circum- 
stances whatever, impress the supplies which a party has for his 
own consumption, or that of his family, employees or slaves. 
II. That no officer shall at any time, unless specially or- 
dered so to do by a General commanding, in a case of exigency, 
impress supplies which are on their way to market for sale on 
arrival. 
III. These orders were included in the instructions originally 
issued in relation to impressment by the Secretary of War ; and 
the officers exercising such authority are again notified, that “any 
one acting without or beyond” the authority given in those in- 
structions, will be held strictly responsible. 
In conformity with the foregoing, to prevent any inconsiderate 
action on the part of officers or agents charged with the duty of 
impressment, they are enjoined, until further orders, which will 
not be given unless under imperative exigencies for the supply 
of the army, not to impress any necessaries of subsistence to 
man, owned by producers, in transitu to market, or after arrival 
at market, unless retained an unreasonable time from sale to 
consumers. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector- General. 203 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 145. 
Adj’t and Insp’h Gen’l’s Orfics, 
Richmond, November 7, 1863. 
The following appendix to the report of the appraisers for the 
State of Virginia is published for the information of all ccn 
cerned . 
Hon. James A. Seddon I 
Sir, 
As indicated in our last report, we respectfully sub- 
mit a few changes in our schedules of prices. Upon the various 
grades of cotton and woolen cloths and warps used by the gov- 
ernment, we assess the prices annexed to each description of 
goods, as follows; 
67 
Army woolen 
' 
cloth, 2 yd, 
Good, 
10 oz. per yd. Per yard, 
$5 
00 
68 
Army woolen 
cloth, 
U 
Pro rata as to 
greater or less width or weight. 
69 Army woolen 
cloth, 6-4 yd, 
44 
20 oz. per yd. Per yard, 
10 
00 
70 
Army woolen 
cloth, 
(4 
Pro rata as tos 
greater or less 
width or weight. 
71 
Flannels, 
44 
6 oz. per yd. 
Per yard, 
4 
00 
72 
Cot’n shirt’gs, 2, 
44 
4J yds. to lb. 
44 44 
56 
73 
it u X 
44 
3| yds. to lb. 
44 44 
84 
74 
“ sheetings. 
4-4, 
44 
3 yds. to lb. 
“ 
87i 
75 
Cotton ozna- 
burgs, 2, 
44 
6 oz. per yd. 
75 
76 
Cotton ozna- 
burgs, 
44 
8 oz. per yd. 
44 44 
88 
77 
Cotton drills, 
44 
3 yds. to lb. 
h a 
88 
78 
“ shining 
stripes, 
“ 
3 yds. to lb. 
(4 44 
88 
79 
Cot’n tent cl’th, 
10 oz. to yd. 
44 44 
1 
12 
80* 
81 
Cotton warps, 
Good, 
Per pound, 
2 
00 
Good hay taken on the farms of producers, uubaled, we assess 
at three dollars per 100 lbs,, and good wheat straw, taken on the 
farms of the producers, we also assess at one dollar and thirty 
*On the above enumerated cotton cloths, pro rata as to greater 
or lew wid*h or weight cents per 100 lbs., unbaled. For hauling hay and wheat straw, 
&c., per 100 lbs., eight cents per mile, and for hauling corn and 
wheat, per bushel, four cents per mile, and for hauling hay and 
wheat straw, fifty cents per 100 lbs. 
Upon farther consideration, we have assessed th'e price of good 
fat, fresh pork, at sixty cents per pound net weight. 
We respectfully suggest to the Secretary of War to have our 
reports and schedules printed in hand bill form, and that several 
copies be furnished to each of the quartermasters’ and commissa- 
ries’ agents engaged in impressing for the government. 
Most respectfully, 
E. W. IIuBARD, 
Robert Gibboney, 
Commissioners for Va. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 146. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, November 9, 1863. 
I. The subjoined statement of the cost of clothing for the 
army is published for the information and guidance of all con- 
cerned : 
Statement of the Cost of Clothing for the Army of the Confede- 
rate States, for the year commencing January 1st, 1864. 
Cap, complete, - - - - -$2 00 
Cover, - 38 
Jacket, • * ■ * * 14 00 
Browsers, - - - - * 12 00 
Shirt, - * • * * -3 00 
Drawers, - - - - - 3 00 
Shoes, pairs, - * - - - 10 00 
Socks, (pairs,) - - - - 1 00 
Leather stock, .... 25 
Great coat, - * - - - 25 00 
Stable frock (for mounted men,) - - 2 00 
Fatigue overall (for eng’rs and ord.,) - 3 00 
Blanket, - - - - 10 00 
II- From the time this takes effect, and until further ordors, 
soldiers will be charged and credited on account of clothing to which they are entitled, as provided in General Orders, No. 100, 
last series, at these rates, and not at invoice prices. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS,; 
No. 147. 
Adj’t ana Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 17, 1863. 
For the due authentication of Military orders exhibited in the 
evidence before the judicial tribunals, it is hereby declared that 
the Orders of the Adjutant and Inspector General have the force 
of Regulations, for the government of all branches of the army, 
and that printed or written copies of the same are duly au- 
thenticated when endorsed as official by any Assistant Adjutant 
General, or by any Chief of a Bureau of this Department. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 148. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 18, 1863. 
I. The quarterly returns of arms, accoutrements and equip- 
ments in the hands of troops, required by paragraph 1348 of the 
Army Regulations, have heretofore been furnished in a very few 
cases only by commanding officers of regiments and battalions. 
These returns are deemed essential, and will hereafter be promptly 
rendered. 
II. It is hereby made the duty of Generals commanding bri- 
gades to see that these returns are made on the 1st of January, 
April, July and October of each year, and forwarded, through 
the regular channels, to the Chief of Ordnance at Richmond, 
within twenty days after these dates respectively. 
III. Should any officer fail to render the return required on 
the 1st of January next, within twenty days thereafter, the Bri- 
gadier General commanding the brigade to which the officer is 
attached, will cause charges for “ disobedience of orders,” or of 
“neglect of duty,” as the case may require, to be made and for- 
warded, without delay, to the General commanding, for his 
action. The same action will be taken on every subsequent 
omission to render such returns. 206 
IV. Brigade and district ordnance officers will give every as- 
sistance to colonels of regiments and officers commanding bat- 
talions, in the preparation of the “returns,” according to the 
form prescribed; and they will also seethatarmsand accoutrements 
lost by the men are duly charged against them on the muster 
rolls of their respective companies. 
V. The chief ordnance officer of every army and department 
will promptly report to the Chief of the Ordnance Bureau every 
officer in the command to which he is attached, who fails to make 
the “ returns” herein required. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS. 
No. 149. 
Adj’t and Insf’r Gen’i/s Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 19, 1863. 
I. The pay and allowances of men detailed for work, (except 
for government work,) will cease during such detail, and in lieu 
thereof, full wages will be paid them by the persons or parties 
to whom they are ordered to report. 
II. The attention of all commanding officers, whose duty it 
may be to examine the Abstracts of Issues of Commissaries or 
Assistant Commissaries of Subsistence, is particularly directed 
to General Orders, No. 12, March 10th, 1862. These command- 
ing officers will also see that only the number of enlisted men 
actually present on duty are included in “ provision returns 
and that if any change takes place in that number during the 
period drawn for, that a corresponding allowance is duly made 
in the next subsequent return, and also that the provisions 
drawn are well taken care of and economically used. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 150. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen'i.’s Office, 
Richmond, Nov 21, 1863. 
I, Enlisted men who have boen (or may become) permanently 
disabled, and who hold ft certificate of a medical examining boat d 207 
to that effect, and who have not been discharged the service, may 
have their rations commuted at (§1 25) one dollar and twenty- 
five cents per diem, whether they are in a hospital, private quar- 
ters, or on furlough. 
II. Men liable to conscription, who have joined companies for 
local defence, will be discharged from such companies and con- 
scribed. This order is not intended to affect companies for which 
special exception has been made by the War Department. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 151. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 23, 1863. 
I. Forage in kind will be issued to officers (entitled to it) 
stationed, by orders from the War Department, at poses and not 
in the field, for but one horse each. In lieu of forage, eight 
dollars a month may be allowed for each horse to which the 
officer may be entitled. A certificate in each case will be given, 
that the “ horses aie actually kept in service and mustered.” 
II. Officers of the adjutant general, quartermaster, commissary 
(except purchasing commissaries), medical and ordnance depart- 
ments, signal and regimental officers (except commanders of 
regiments), and subalterns of artillery, who are serving in the 
field, will be embraced in the provisions of paragraph I of this 
Order, unless otherwise ordered by the Commanding General. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 152. 
Adj't and Insp’t Gen Vs Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 24, 1863. 
T. A Court of Enquiry having been convenrd at Jackson, 
Mississippi, by Special Orders, No. 41, from this office, dated 
February 18, 18G3, amended by Special Orders, No, 43, of Febru- 
ary 20, 1863, to examine and report the facts and circumstances 
attending the capture of the city of New Orleans by the enemy 
in April, 1862, and the defence of the city by the Confederate 208 
troops under command of Major General Mansfield Lovell, to- 
gether with their opinion thereon: and the Court having dis- 
charged the duty assigned them, their opinion is published for 
the benefit of all whom it may concern. 
II. Opinion of the Court. 
The Court having maturely considered the evidence adduced, 
submit the following 
opinion : 
1. As against a lijnd attack by any force the enemy could 
probably bring, the interjor line of fortifications, as adopted and 
completed by Major Geperal Lovell, was a sufficient defence of 
the city of New Orleans ; but his ability to hold that line against 
such an attack was greatly impaired by the withdrawal from 
him, by superior authority, of pearly all his effective troops. 
2. The exterior line, as adopted and improved bv him, was well 
devised, and rendered as strong as the means of his command 
allowed. •' . * 
3. Until the iron clad gun boats Louisiana and Mississippi should 
be ready for service, it was indispensably neotessary to obstruct 
the navigation of the Mississippi riveip.between Ports Jackson 
and St. Philip. The raft completed under General Lovell’s 
direction was adequate for the purpose while in position ; but it 
was swept away, and left the river unimpeded, either by reason of 
some error in its construction’, or neglect in preventing the accu- 
mulation of drift, or because of insuperable mechanical diffi- 
culties, as to which this Court feels unprepared to give an opinion. 
General Lovell communicated to the government no opinion as to 
the insecurity of the raft, nor itny apprehension that it might be 
swept away, nor did lie. immediately make known that fact when 
it occurred. In this it is considered that he was remiss in his 
duty. 
4. When the raft was swept away, Gen. Lovell, with great 
energy, immediately endeavored to replace it, and partially suc- 
ceeded; but without fain It on his part, this last obstruction was 
broken by the carelessness of vessels of the “ river defence fleet’' 
colliding with it, and by fire rafts drifting against it, and by 
the failure of the guard boatsdtp . protect it against night expe- 
ditions of the enemy. 
5. The non-completion of the iron clad gun boats Louisiana 
and Mississippi made ,at impossible for the navy to co-operate 
efficiently with Gen. Lovell. 
6. The so-called river defence fleet was wholly useless as a 
means of resistance to the entgmypfor which Gen. Lovell was in 
no wise responsible. 209 
7. Under the existing circumstances, the passage of the forts 
by the enemy’s fleet could not have been prevented by General 
Lovell with any means under his control; and the forts being 
passed, the fall of New Orleans was inevitable, and its evacu- 
ation a military necessity. 
8. When the first raft was broken, and the danger of New 
Orleans thus became imminent, all necessary preparation should 
have been made for removing the public property and private 
property available for military uses; and when the second ob- 
struction was swept away, the removal of such property should 
have been commenced immediately. The failure to take these 
timely steps caused the-losses of property that occurred; but 
there was comparatively but little property lost for which Gen. 
Lovell was responsible. 
9. The failure of Gen. Lovell to give proper orders to Brig. Gen. 
M. L. Smith for the retirement of his command from Chalmette, 
is not sufficiently explained, and is therefore regarded as a seri- 
ous error. 
10. The proposition of Gen. Lovell to return to New Orleans 
with his command, was not demanded by his duty as a soldier, 
involving as it did the useless sacrifice of himself and his troops, 
though it explains itself upon the ground of sympathy for the 
population and a natural sensitiveness to their reproaches. 
11. Gen. Lovell displayed great energy and an untiring indus- 
try in performing his duties. Ilis conduct was marked by all 
the coolness and self-possession due to the circumstances and his 
position ; and he evinced a high capacity for command, and the 
clearest foresight in many of his measures for the defence of New 
Orleans. 
The Court respectfully report, that its assembly was delayed 
by the failure of its President to receive his orders in due time, 
and that its session was protracted by the taking of testimony 
under the order of the War Department, as to the conduct of 
naval officers on duty in Department No. 1. This order was re- 
scinded, thus rendering useless and irrelevant much of the labor 
of the Court. The testimony referred to, although appearing on 
record, was not considered by the Court in determining its find- 
ings and opinion, 
11T. The Court of Enquiry in the foregoing case is hereby dis- 
solved. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General, GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 153. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 25, 1863. 
Abuses having occurred, from misconception of the force due 
to the passports, certifying to citizenship of the Confederate 
States, which are issued by the Secretary of State, as matter of 
right to any citizen for use in foreign countries, it is announced 
that such passports are not intended to have, and have not any 
effect whatever, in the Confederacy, to entitle to pass the Con- 
federate lines, or to sail from Confederate ports, without due 
compliance with all police or military regulations prevailing 
there, or to exempt from military or other service imposed by 
law or regulations. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 154. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 26, 1863. 
I. No ordnance or ordnance stores other than those prescribed 
in the Ordnance Manual, edition of 1863, or specially approved 
by the Ordnance Bureau, are allowed to be purchased or fabri- 
cated. The permission given to officers by paragraph 1232, 
Army Regulations (paragraph 9, Ordnance Regulations), to pro- 
vide ordnance and ordnance stores, “ in case of urgent necessi- 
ty,” is to be exercised, subject to the above restrictions. 
II. Accounts paid by disbursing officers for the purchase, 
fabrication, or repair of ordnance and ordnance stores, contrary 
to the foregoing order, will not be admitted in the settlement of 
their accounts, 
By order. 
S. COOPER. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 155. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 28, 1863. 
I. In order that detachments, unaccompanied by quartermas- 
ters, may be supplied with the means of obtaining forage, quar- 
termasters of the regiments or commands to which they belong 
are hereby authorized to furnish to the officer in command, or 
such other officer ns may be designated, sufficient funds for that 211 
purpose, upon duplicate receipts being given therefor. Upon the 
return of the detachment, the officer receiving such funds shall 
return to the quartermaster an account of the expenditures for 
forage, which will exhibit the amount expended, the number of 
animals, and the time during which they shall have been sub- 
sisted. Upon the rendition of such accounts, and the re payment 
of any unexpended balance in his hands, the officer will be enti- 
tled to the return of his original receipts, and the quartermaster 
will account for the forage so obtained, as if the same had been 
purchased and issued by him. 
II. When small detachments are sent off, unaccompanied by a 
commissioned officer, quartermasters are authorized to commute 
their forage rations in advance, for the time designated in the 
order for such detached service, filing a certified copy of such or- 
der in support of the voucher ; or upon the return of detach- 
ments to their commands, when no funds shall have been sup- 
plied under the foregoing provisions, expenditures incurred for 
forage by the officer in command of such detachments, within the 
regulation allowance, may be reimbursed by the quartermaster 
of the command, upon accounts supported by affidavits, and ap- 
proved by the commanding officer. 
By order 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 156. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l's Office, 
Richmond, Nov. 30, 1863. 
I. At a General Court Martial, convened by Special Order?, 
No. 196, of August 10, 1863, Head Quarters Army of Northern 
Yirgiuia, was arraigned and tried : 
Col. R. M. Mayo, 47th Va. Regiment, on the following Charge 
and Specification: 
Charge—Drunkenness on duty. 
Specification—In this, that Col. It. M Mayo, 47tli Virginia 
Regiment, while on duty in command of the provost guard at 
Hagerstown, Md., for the protection of its inhabitants, and the 
establishment of order and quiet in tr e town, did become intoxi- 
cated on or about the 8th of July, 1803. 
II. Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
The Court find the accused, Col. R. M. Mayo, 47th Virginia 
Regiment, as follows ; 212 
Of the Specification, Guiity. 
Of the Charge, Guilty. 
And do therefore sentence him to be cashiered. 
III. The proceedings in the foregoing case, approved by the 
Commanding General, having been submitted to the President, 
with the recommendations of the officers formerly associated 
with Col. Mayo, and others, for his restoration, the following is 
the President's decision in the case: 
“ Sentence remitted, on the recommendations submitted. Let 
the officer be restored to duty.” 
Col. II. M. Mayo, 47th Virginia Volunteers, is, therefore, re- 
stored to his command, and will immediately report for orders to 
Gen. II. E. Lee. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjidant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 157. 
Adj’t and Insf’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Dec. 1, 1863, 
I. The provisions of paragraph I, General Orders, No. 67, 
current series, are hereby extended so as to include officers of 
the Commissary Department, and such agents of that department 
as have been appointed by the Secretary of War. 
II. When a soldier, ordered before a “ board of examiners for 
conscripts," or a “ hospital examining board," in pursuance of 
paragraph III, General Orders, No. 141, current series, is unable 
to appear by reason of physical disability, he will forward to the 
enrolling officer a certificate to this effect, signed by his attend- 
ing physician, which certificate will also embrace a full and ac- 
curate statement of the case. The enrolling officer will submit 
the certificate to either’board, who, in conference with him. will 
make upon it such recommendation as may be warranted by the 
facts ascertained and the character of the parties. This recom- 
mendation, with the statement, will be forwarded as directed in 
the paragraph above quoted. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 213 
Adj’t and Insp’r Oen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Avg. 3, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 158. 
The following i9« published as a schedule of the average cost of 
arms, parts of arms, and accoutrements, as required by para- 
graph 78 of Ordnance Regulations: 
PARTS. 
v ; . 1 i 
[ Model 1842. \ 
Musket. 
a 
S 
>SI0N LC 
o 
o 
00 d 
Z! 
® 5 
!! 
1 Holster P 
Pistol. 
Barrel with sight, without breech, 
$10 25 
11 15 
5 00 
Breech screw, . . 
56 
56 
42 
Bayonet or band stud, 
02 
02 
Tang screw, . . . 
18 
18 
15 
Cone, . . . 
17 
17 
17 
Lock plate, .... 
1 35 
1 35 
1 08 
Tumbler, . . 
08 
08 
02 
Tumbler screw, 
05 
05 
05 
Bridle, : 
34 
34 
31 
Sear, . . . 
74 
74 
62 
Sear spring, .... 
44 
44 
39 
Main spring, . . i . . 
1 06 
1 06 
1 00 
Lock screws, each, . 
04 
04 
04 
Hammer, . . . . 
72 
72 
54 
Side plate (with band for pistol,) 
- IS 
12 
96 
Side screws, each, 
21 
21 
17 
Upper band, . . , ' . 
60 
17 
Middle band, .... 
45 
45 
Lower band, . . , . 
. 
17 
17 
Upper band spring, . , 
, 
.14 
14 
Middle band spring, . 
" 14 
14 
Lower band spring, 
14 
14 
Guard plate, .... 
70 
70 
50 
Guard plate screws, each, 
06 
06 
04 
Guard bow, without swivels, 
48 
48 
28 
Guard bow nut, each, . 
10 
10 
10 
Swivels and rivets, each, 
25 
25 
Trigger, .... 
10 
10 
15 
Trigger screw, 
04 
04 
04 
Butt plate, .... 
2 05 
2 05 
Butt plate screw, each, 
19j 
19 
05 Schedule of Prices-—Continued. 
PARTS. 
FERCCS 
TT 
OC w 
— 
| Model 1855. 1 
Rille. * 
1 ! £ 
>CK. 
2 
_ s 
O 
"o 
X 
Ramrod, ..... 
$ 3 28 
3 56 
1 60 
Ramrod spring, .... 
50 
Ramrod wires, . . . ' . 
02 
Ramrod stop, . . . ... 
02 
02 
Stock, 
3 20 
3 20 
Bayonet, ..... 
5 48 
5 4S 
Bayonet clasp, .... 
31 
31 
Bayonet clasp screw, .... 
01 
04, 
Ramrod swivel and rivet, . . 
-• 
- 
60 
Ramrod swivel and rivet screw, 
- 
- 
04 
Sword bayonet blade, . 
- 
6 00 
Sword bayonet hilt, without clasp, . 
" 
6 00 
Sight base, ..... 
_ 
32 
Long branch (leaf.) 
- 
19 
Short, ...... 
- 
18 
Sight screws, each, .... 
- 
05j 
Sight, complete, . . . • 
- 
82 
Barrel, complete, .... 
10 81 
11 71 
Lock, complete, .... 
5 88 
5 S8 
Guard, complete, .... 
1 75 
1 75 
Bayonet, complete, .... 
6 00 
6 00 
Arm, complete, with bayonet, 
41 00 
42 00 
Enfield rilie, complete, . 
- 
60 00 
Appendages for all arms: 
Screw driver and cone wrench, 
1 50 
1 50 
1 50 
Wiper, ..... 
75 
75 
75 
Bail screw, ..... 
75 
75 
75 
Spriest vice, ..... 
1 50 
1 50 
1 50 215 
Schedule or Prices—Continued. 
SWORDS AND SABRES. 
PARTS. 
Cavalry Sabre. 
J Horse Artillery 
Sabre. 
Artillery Sword. 
1 Sword bayonet. 
■ ‘ 
_ . 
Non-commiss’n’d 
Officer’s Sword. 
:, . ■ 
Musician’s Swo’d. 
7 Gripe, . 
$0 60 
71 
- 
79 
90 
Hilt, > Head, . 
2 10 
1 85 
3 70 
3 36 
1 64 
1 98 
• ) Guard, . 
3 30 
2 44 
- ' 
3 93 
1 98 
Blade, 
8 50 
8 32 
9 05 
4 47 
7 20 
8 64 
1 Mouthpiece, 
60 
42 
1 Body, 
3 60 
4 20 
2 13 
1 30 
2 16 
2 25 
Scabbard, & rings, . 
1 80 
2 52 
| Ferule & stud, . 
50 
54 
1 06 
84 
1 14 
1 13 
J Tip, . 
- 
- 
J 06 
53 
1 14 
1 12 
Arm. complete, 
JO 
o 
o 
21 00|17 0040 50 
18 00 
18 0l> 216 
Schedule of Prices—Continued. 
ACCOUTREMENTS. 
PARTS. 
Infantry. 
Artillery. 
Cavalry. 
Rifle. 
Cartridge box, 
Cartridge box belt (leather,) . 
Cartridge box belt (canvass,) . 
Bayonet scabbard and frog, . 
$ 6 00 
2 57 
1 50 
2 57 
4 50 
5 50 
|Waist belt (leather,) . 
Waist belt (canvass,) . 
2 06 
1 50 
- 
2 06 
Cap pouch and pick, . 
2 23 
- - 
2 23 
2 23 
Gun sling, .... 
Sabre belt, . . , . 
Sword belt, .... 
Carbine sling, .... 
Powder flask (tin,) 
Canteen, . . '. 
Canteen strap, 
Knapsacks, . . 
Haversacks, .... 
1 2Q 
*50 
1 25 
25 
6 50 
50 
5 00 
5 00 
1 20 
5 00 
G 00 
1 20 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 159. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Dec. 4, 1863. 
I. Hospitals for prisoners of war are placed on the same foot- 
ing ns other C. S. hospitals in all respects, and will be managed 
accordingly. 
II. The hospital ration is fixed, until further orders, at the 
same rates of issues now made to soldiers in the field. If a 
greater allowance is required of any particular articles, special 
requisitions must be made therefor.* 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
“Amended. See Gen. Orders, No. 164. OENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 160. 
Adj’t and Insp’r GenVs Office, 
Richmond, Dec. 7, 1863. 
I. The following schedules of prices for articles named there- 
in, adopted by commissioneis appointed pursuant to law, for the 
State of Virginia, are announced for the information of all con- 
cerned; and the special attention of officers and agents of the 
government is directed thereto : 
II. Richmond, December 4, 1863. 
Hon. Jas. A. Seddon, 
* Sir—In revising and preparing the schedules of prices for De- 
cember and January, we requested the aid of Mr. Win. B Har- 
rison, and it is proper to add that the prices agreed upon receiv- 
ed the unanimous approval of the commissioners. We respect- 
fully offer the accompanying schedules A and !gr with the under- 
standing that the prices therein indicated are to remain for the 
months of December and January, unless in the interval it should 
be deemed by us necessary to modify them. 
The following schedules present the maxi num prices to be paid 
for the articles appraised, at all cities and usual places of sale, and 
when impressed elsewhere, the same prices are to be paid elsewhere, 
less the cost of transportation to the city or usual place of sale to 
which the article would go ordinarily for sale from that neigh- 
borhood, or less the cost of transportation to the point at which 
the government needs the article, and wishes it to be sent: Pro- 
vided, that in no case the amount deducted for transportation as 
above shall exceed 25 cents per bushel for grain, and 25 cents per 
cwt. for long forage, flour, bacon, iron, &c. In addition to the 
established price of transportation, the government to pay all 
legal tolls, and, where farmers cannot procure nails for baling 
forage, government to furnish the same at cost, which will be de- 
ducted from the established price for baling: 
ARTICLE. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
1 Wheat, 
Prime, 
White or red! 
Pr bush of 60 lbs 
$ 5 00 
2 Flour, 
Good, 
Fine, 
Pr barrel of 196 lbs. 
22 00 
“ 
U 
Superfine, 
u cc u . 
25 00 
U 
Ex. sup’rfine 
u u a 
26 50 
U 
u 
Family, 
« (( « 
28 00 
3 Corn, 
Prime, 
Wh’eoryellW 
Pr bush of 56 lbs. 
4 00 
4 Unshelled corn, 
<C 
M « 
«* ° 56 lbs. 
3 95 
$ Com meal, 
Good, 
u “ 50 lbs. 
4 20 
Schedule A. Schedule A.—Continued. 
ARTICLE. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTIOB. 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
6 Rye. 
Print e, 
Per bush of 56 lbs. 
$ 3 20 
7 Cleaned oats, 
“ 
“ “ 32 lbs. 
2 50 
S Wheat bran, 
Good, 
“ “ 17 lbs. 
50 
9 Shorts, 
(l 
“ “ 22 lbs. 
70 
10 Brown stuff, 
li 
“ “ 28 lbs. 
90 
1' Ship stuff. 
It 
“ “ 37 lbs. 
1 40 
12 Bacon, 
a 
Hog round, 
Per pound, 
1 25 
13 Salt pork, 
U 
‘ It 
1 10 
Fresh pork, 
Fat & 
good, 
Per lb. net weight, 
80 
14 Lard, 
Coed, 
Pei pound, 
1 9.r* 
15 Horses, 
lstcrs 
Artillery, &c. 
Av'ge price pr head 
350 00 
16 Wool, 
Fair or 
Mer ’o 
Washed, 
Per pound, 
3 00 
17 Wool, 
Fair or 
Mer’o 
Unwashed, 
“ 
2 OO 
18 Peas, 
Good, 
Per bush of 60 lbs. 
4 00 
19 Beans, 
« 
“ “ “ 
4 00 
20 Potatoes, 
(( 
Irish, 
U 
4 00 
21 Potatoes, 
4( 
Sweet, 
u 
5 00 
22 Onions, 
Good, 
“ “ 60 lbs. 
5 00 
23 Dried peaches, 
Pealed, 
“ of 38 lbs. 
8 00 
24 Dried peaches. 
Unpealed, 
“ of 38 lbs. 
4 50 
25 Lried apples, 
“ 
Pealed, 
“ of 28 lbs 
3 00 
26 Hay, baled, 
Timothy or 
clover, 
Per 100 pounds, 
3 50 
27 Hay, baled, 
Orchard or 
tt 
herd grass, 
H tt 
3 00 
28 Hay, unbaled, 
Orchard or 
(s 
herd grass, 
ti l. 
3 00 
29 Sh’f oats, baled, 
a 
a u 
4 00 
30 Shv oats, unb'd, 
u 
■ 
a a 
3 50 
31 Blade fod’r, b’d, 
a 
a ti 
3 50 
32 Bl fodder, nnb'd 
a 
a a 
3 00 
33 Shucks, baled, 
a 
a a 
2 20 
34 Shucks, unb’d, 
a 
n 
a u 
1 70 
35 Wheat straw, 
baled, 
it 
(( u 
1 80 
36 Wheat straw, 
unbaled, 
a 
a n 
1 30 
37 Pasturage, 
Good, 
Interior, 
Per bead pr month. 
3 00 
OO it ’ 
Sup'r 
• U 
U U 
4 Op 
39 
lrt t’te 
it a 
5 cb Schedule A.—Continued. 
ARTICLES. 
QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
TRICE. 
40 Pasturage, 
Good, 
Near cities, 
Per head pr mouth, 
$ 5 00 
41 “ 
Sup’r, 
“ 
6 00 
42 
1st r’te 
U 
u u 
7 00 
43 Salt, 
Good, 
Per bush of 50 lbs. 
5 00 
44 Soap, 
a 
Far pound, 
40 
45 Candles, 
u 
Tallow, 
2 00 
46 Vinegar, 
a 
Cider, 
Per gallon, 
2 00 
47 Whiskey, 
u 
Trade, 
u 
3 00 
48 Sugar, 
u 
Brown, 
Per pound, 
1 50 
49 Molasses, 
a 
New Orleans, 
Per gallon. 
10 00 
50 Rice, 
Per pound, 
2m 
51 Coffee, 
,i 
Rio, 
“ 
3 00 
52 Tea. 
“ 
Trade, 
“ 
7 00 
53 Vinegar, 
« 
Manufact’d, 
Per gallon, 
50 
54 Pig iron, 
" 
No. 1 quality. 
Per ton, 
150 00 
55 Pig iron, 
it 
No. 2 “ 
132 00 
56 Pig iron, 
a 
No, 3 “ 
U 
120 00 
57 Bloom iron, 
“ 
*4 
216 00 
53 Smith’s iron, 
Round, plate 
» 
and bar. 
Pee ton, 
156 00 
59 Railroad iron, 
(t 
‘4 
190 00 
60 Leather, 
(4 
Harness, 
P • pound, 
2 60 
61 “ ‘ 
u 
Sole, 
2 40 
62 “ 
« 
Upper, 
(4 
2 80 
63 Beef cattle, 
Gross weight, 
P :: ICO pounds, 
16 00 
64 “ 
Sup’r, 
44 44 
(*. 44 . 
18 00 
65 
1st r’te 
(4 44 
ii 44 
20 00 
65 Sheep, 
Fair, 
Per head, 
30 00 
67 Army woollen 
cloth, | yd. 
Good, 
10 oz. per yd. 
P ryard, 
5 00 
63 Army woollen 
Pro rata as to 
cloth, 
H 
greater orles? 
V idth or weight, 
69 Army woollen 
cloth, 6 4 yd. 
<4 
2C oz. per yd. 
P -r yard, 
10 00 
70 Army woollen 
Pro rata as,to 
• 
cloth, 
“ 
greater or less 
V ;dth or weight, 
71 Flannels, £ 
“ 
6 oz. per yd. 
P ryard, 
4 00 
72 Cotton ahirt’g. J 
“ 
yds. to lb. 
56 
73 “ “ i 
a 
3} yds to lb 
£4 
74 Cotton sheet- 
ir.ge, 4-4, 
3 yds. to lb. 
14 
87 
75 Cotton ozna- 
burgs, i, 
U 
6 cz per yd. 
75 220 
Schedule A—Continue*}. 
ARTICLE. 
H 
3 
<j 
p 
o> 
DESCRIPTION. 
QUANTITY. 
PRICE. 
76 Cotton ezna- 
burgs, £, 
a 
8 oz. per yd. 
Per yard. 
$ 88 
77 Cotton drills, 
(C 
3 yds. to lb. 
U 
88 
78 Cotton shirting 
stripes, 
(( 
3 yds. to lb. 
tt- 
88 
79 Cotton tent 
cloths, 
u 
10 oz. to yd. 
it* 
1 12 
80* 
81 Cotton warps, 
u 
Per pound, 
2 00 
82 Army shoes, 
“ 
Per pair, 
10 00 
S3 Shoe thread, 
u 
Per pound, 
2 00 
84 Wool socks for 
men, 
85 Mules, 
. “ 
Per pair, 
1 25 
1st r’te 
Wagon, &c. 
Av'e price pr head, 
300. 00 
86 Corntop fodder, 
baled, 
Good, 
Per 190 pounds, 
2 00 
87 Corntop fodder, 
unbaled, 
It 
u u 
1 50 
88 Wheat chaff, 
baled. 
a 
tt (C 
2 00 
89 Wheat chaff, 
unbaled. 
( 
C( u 
1 50 
90 Sorghum mo- 
lasses, 
Per gallon, 
8 00 
91 Pasturage for 
sheep, 
tt 
Interior, 
Per head, 
40 
92 Pasturage for 
sheep, 
Sttp’r, 
' 
“ 
Ct It 
50 
93 Pasturage for 
sheep, 
1st r’te 
U 
l( u 
60 
In assessing the average value of “ first class artillery and 
wagon horses at $350,” we designed that the term should be ac- 
cepted and acted upon according to its, obvious common sense 
import. In other words, that horses should be selected, and then 
impressed accordingly as their working qualities and adaptation 
to army service, together with their intrinsic value, would war- 
rant a judicious purchaser in considering them as coming within 
the contemplation of the eommissicners when they assessed the 
* On the above enumerated cotton cloths, pro rata as to greater 
s>r less width or weight. average value of such horses as the government needed, at $350. 
But cases might arise, however, when the public exigencies would 
be so urgent as to demand that al horses at hand should be im- 
pressed. Yet under ordinary circumstances, when family or ex- 
tra blooded horses, or brood mares of admitted high value are im- 
pressed, we respectfully suggest to the Secretary of War to have® 
instructions forwarded to the impressing officers to propose and 
allow the owners to substitute in their stead such strong, sound 
and serviceable horses or mules as shall be considered and valued 
by competent and disinterested parties as first class artillery 
horses, or first rate wagon mules. 
The term “ average value per head" was used in contradistinc- 
tion to a fixed and uniform price for each horse or mule. We 
supposed that in impressing a number of horses or mules, whe- 
ther owned by several arsons, or one individual, that some 
might be estimated at $250, or even at less, and others at differ- 
ent advanced rates, according to their worth, up as high as $450, 
or above that amount—thus making an average value or price for 
a number of good, sound and efficient horses, $350 each, and 
mules $300 each. 
In illustration of our views, we will add, that a horse with 
only one eye sound, might, in all other respects, be classed as a 
first rate artillery horse, yet the loss of one eye would justly and 
considerably curtail his value. So a horse from 10 to 18 years of 
age might be deemed in all other particulars as a first class artil- 
lery horse, but of course, however efficient or able to render good 
service for a year or so, yet his advanced age would justly and 
materially impair his value. Any horse, however he may ap- 
proximate the standard of a first class artillery horse, must, ac- 
cording to deficiencies, fall below the maximum price; and as 
few comparatively exactly conse up to the standard, and therefore 
are entitled to the maximum price, so of course in all other in- 
stances the price should be proportionately reduced, as imperfec- 
tions place them below the standard of first class, &c, 222 
Schedule B.—Bin yf Labor, Teams. Wagons and Drivers. 
jQUANTITY & TIME. 
PK1CE. 
1. Baling long forage . 
*2. Shelling and bagg ig corn, sacks fur- 
nished by the go mnment, . 
iPer 100 lbs. 
1 
“ 56 “ 
$ 50 
05 
3. Hauling, . 
“ cwt. p.mile, 
08 
4. Hauling grain, 
5. Hire of two-hor9r team, wagon and 
“ bush “ 
04 
driver, rations fu tished by owner. . 
6. Hire of same, ratic s furnished by the 
“ day, 
10 00 
government, . 
7. Hirj of four-horse team, wagon and 
« Ct 
5 00 
driver, rations fu ashed by owner. . 
8. Hire of same, ratio s furnished by the 
« u 
13 00 
government, .... 
-9. Hire of six-horse team, wagor. and 
a u 
6 50 
t 
driver, rations furnished by owner, . 
10. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
u u 
16 00 
government, .... 
11. Hire of laborer, rations furnished by 
c: a 
8 00 
owner, .... 
12. Hire of same, rations furnished by the 
u u 
2 00 
government, .... 
13. Hire of same, rations and clothing 
U (( 
1 50 
furnished by owner, 
14. Hire of Same, rations furnished by the 
“ month, 
50 00 
government, .... 
15. Hire of teamsters, rations furnished by 
U .i 
30 00 
the government, 
16. Hire of laborer, clothing and rations 
u u 
40 00 
furnished by government, 
17. Hire of same, clothing and rations fur- 
Per year, 
300 00 
nished by owner, , 
18. Hire of same, rations only furnished 
cc a 
£50 00 
by government, 
« « 
400 00 
Upon farther consideration, we have concluded to value sheaf 
oats, hay aud blade fodder, east of the Blue Ridge mountains, 
when baled, at $5- per K?0 pounds, and unbaled at $4 50 f>er 100 
pounds. 
E. W. IICJ»ARI>, 
Rob’t Gibboney, 
Wm. B. Harrison, 
Commissioners for Fa. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 161. 
Adj’t asd Insp’r Gkn'i/s Omcc, 
Richmond, Dec. 10, 1863. 
The following Order is published as an amendment of the 
Regulations in respect to Impressments, as a substitute for para- 
graph II, section 5, General Orders, No. 37, current series. All 
officers and agents who have been or shall be empowered to make 
impressments, shall conform to the provisions of this Order, in 
respect to impressments hereafter to be made, and also in cases 
where the property may have been heretofore taken, and the 
price has not been fully adjusted: 
In the event of the refusal by the owner, his bailie, or other 
agent, of the price offered, the impressing officer shall proceed to 
settle the compensation to be paid, according to the first section 
of the act of March 26th, 1863, if the property impressed be- 
longs to an owner who has grown, raised or produced the same, 
or who holds or has purchased the same for his own use or con- 
sumption. But if tbe property impressed has not been grown, 
raised or produced by the owner, nor been purchased for his own 
use or consumption, it shall be the duty of the impressing officer 
to offer the price fixed by the commissioners, who may be ap- 
pointed under the 5th section of the Act of Congress of the 26th 
March, 1863, to regulate impressments; and if the owner shall 
object to receive the said price, as not being a just compensation, 
it shall be the duty of the impressing officer to cause the value to 
be ascertained by the appointment of a board similar to that de- 
signated in the first section of the act aforesaid ; that is, by the 
judgment of two loyal and disinterested citizens of the county or 
ftarish in which such impressments may be made—one to be se- 
eded by the owner, and one by the impressing officer—and in 
the event of their disagreement, these two shall choose an um- 
pire of like qualification. The persons thus selected shall pro- 
ceed to assess just compensation for the property so impressed, 
whether the absolute ownership or the temporary use thereof 
only is required: provided, however, if the impressing officer in 
any of the cases mentioned shall believe that the appraisement is 
fair or just, he shall endorse upon it his approval; and the pro- 
perty in the object impressed shall thereupon be vested in the 
Confederate S ates : but if he does not approve the appraisement 
as aforesaid, he shall endorse upon the appraisement his objec- 
tion thereto, and deliver the same, with a receipt for the proper- 
ty impressed, to the owner, his bailiee, agent or attorney, and, as 
soon as practicable, forward a copy of the receipt and appraise- 
ment, and his endorsement thereon, to the board of appraisers, 
appointed by the President and Governor of the State, who shall 
revise the same, and make a final valuation, so as to give just compensation for the property taken; which valuation shall be 
paid by the proper department for the use of which the property 
was taken, on the certificate of the appraisers, as provided in the 
acts of Congress on the subject. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 162. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Dec. 11, 1863. 
I. Quartermasters at posts will afford all the accommodation in 
their power to persons in charge of stock, traveling under the 
orders of officers of Lt. Col. A. II. Cole’s department. Forage 
and shelter for the animals and subsistence for the men will be 
furnished by them upon the requisition of any officer, or his au- 
thorized agent, of Col. Cole’s department, who will receipt for 
the same. 
II. To prevent claims for commutation of rations which may 
have been previously drawn, surgeons in charge of hospitals will 
endorse on the furlough of enlisted men who leave a hospital on 
furlough, a statement of the number of days and the dates he 
has drawn rations for the enlisted men. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 163. 
Adj’t and iNsr’R Gen’l’s Office, 
Richmond, Dec. 23, 1863. 
The attention of officers of the army is again directed to para- 
graph VII, General Orders, No. 28, requiring that in all recom- 
mendations for military appointments, the name of the State bo 
given of which the person is a citizen. No applications will 
hereafter receive attention, in which this rule is not observed. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 225 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 164. 
Adj’t and Insp’r Gent’s Office, 
Richmond, Dec 29.1803. 
I. Paragraph II, General Orders, No. 159, current series, is 
amended as follows: 
II. The hospital ration is fixed, until further orders, at the 
same rates of issues now made to soldiers in the field. If a 
greater allowance is required of any particular article, not is- 
sued to troops in the field, special requisitions must be made 
therefor. 
By order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General. ANALYTICAL INDEX 
TO 
General Orders from War Department, 
FOR THE YEAR 
1863. 
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, 
War Department, 
Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, Va., January 1th, 1864. 
The following Analytical Index of General Orders, isSued from 
this Office, for the year 1863, lias been prepared under my au* 
thority, by Mr. Robinson of this Office, and is believed to be com- 
plete, 
S. COOPER, 
Udfuxani and Intptctor Gknernl. INDEX. 
No 
ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE—pardon to those who are, . 100 
soldiers—shall not receive pay for such time, . 108 
“ officers to ctfllect, must report, . . 122 
“ a list of all, to be sent to Conscript Bu- 
reau, .... 125, 130 
ACT OF CONGRESS—Abolishing supernumerary Com- 
missaries and Q. Masters, . . .70 
allowing hospital accommodations to officers, . 71 
• amending Act to oeganize Military Courts, . 108 
appointment of Military Storekeepers, . . 108 
establishing Nitre and Mining Bureau, . . 85 
exempting mail contractors and cairiers, . 44 
forbidding employment of able bodied men as clerks 
by commissaries and quartermasters, . . 105 
granting furloughs and discharges, . . 108 
impressments, .... 37, 53 
local defence and special service, . . 86 
officers and men selected to civil positions, . 48 
organizing engineer troops, ... 66 
Pay and allowances of deceased soldiers, . .108 
pay to soldiers not legally mustered intoC. S. service, 108 
prevent absence of officers and men without leave, 108 
•prevent fraud in quartermaster’s and commissary de- 
partments, . .# . . 108 
prohibiting punishment of soldiers by whipping, . 44 
Quartermaster General to have rank, &c., of Brigadier 
General, .... 108 
restraining General officers from appointing officers 
to certain regiments, and allowing elections, . 108 
repealing act exempting overseers, . . 108 
retaliation, ..... 108 
slaves, taken by, or employed in, army, . 25 
transfer from army to navy, . . . 108 
transportation to persons mustered into service and to 
whom furloughs may be granted, . . 108 
ACT OF VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE—Voting in camp, 38 
ACCOUTREMENTS—Quarterly returns of, must be prompt- 
ly rendered, ... . . 148 
schedule of cost of, 158 No. 
ADJUTANTS—To report all slaves in army without writ- 
ten authority, . . .59 
AGENTS—Of commissary departments, (See Commis’y Dept) 
of quartermaster’s department, (See Qcartermast's Dep't.) 
AIDES-DE-CAMP—Volunteer must be exempt from con- 
scription, . . . 107 
AMBULANCES—Wagons, &c., for hospital supplies, 34, 45 
APPOINTMENTS—Applicants for, must show vacancy, &c., 8 
applications for, must give State, Ac., . 28, 163 
of officers vested only in the President, . 28 
ARMS—Abandoned by stragglers, who will collect, . 119 
and munitions of war, captured by Partizan Rangers, 47 
captured, exchange of, forbidden v . . 19 
captured, to be turned over to chief ordnance officer, 19 
private, price of, . .9 
private, price of, how paid, * . . 9 
quarterly “ returns” of, must be promptly made, . 148 
schedule of, cost of, . . 158 
ARMY REGULATIONS—Certain paragraphs revoked. . 20 
certain paragraphs suspended, . . 32 
“ “ amended, . 44. 121 
ARMY SUPPLIES—No more to be received under late call 
of the President, . . .92 
to be purchased or impressed, . . 92 
ARSENALS, ARMORIES AND DEPOTS—certain, under 
immediate charge of War Department. . 13 
officers in charge of, must report detailed men, . 33 
ARTILLERY—And ammunition, “returns” of, . 20 
field, to be parked, . . .7 
men may be transferred to cavalry, whenever, 67 
public horses to be given to, . . 60 
AUTHORITIES TO RAISE TROOPS—From conscripts, 
revoked, , . . * 18 
what, may be granted, . IS 
BONDS—Of quartermaster’s and commissaries must accom- 
pany their acceptances, . . 121 
BRIGADIER GENERALS—Must see that the “ returns” of 
arms, accoutrements, &e., are promptly rendered, 148 
not to be “ detached,” except, , . 28 
CADETS—Examination of, for promotion, . . 38 
to report to Adjutant and Inspector General or be 
“dropped,” . . . 132 
CAMP OF INSTRUCTION—For conscripts at Petersburg, 4 
CAVALRY—Companies must be kept with regiments, 7 
men who cannot provide horses may be transferred to 
infantry or artillery, . . .67 
CITIZENS and others, held in confinement, “reports” of, 33 
musrt not purchaso clothing or arms from soldiers, . 122 No. 
CITIZENS-—rights of, regarding estray horses and mules, . 61 
CITIZENSHIP—Passports of, force due to, . 153 
CLERK—No able bodied man to be employed as, in quar- 
termaster’s or commissary departments, . 105 
CLOTHES G—Of deceased soldiers, . . 49,93 
of c “tailed soldiers of disbanded companies, . 80 
of soldiers, citizens must not purchase, . 122 
of “ may be commuted, when, . . 136 
of “ cost of, . . 146 
COLONELS—Must not be detached, except, * . 28 
COMMISSARIES—Absent under orders, allowed expenses, 157 
certain, “ dropped,” . . . 121 
for sales to officers, . - 70 
must 1 issue” only to men actually present for duty, 149 
not o employ an able bodied man as clerk, . 105 
of post, to receive tax in kind, . . 132 
regi nental, abolished, . . .70 
to a sist in colle-ting arms left by stragglers, . 119 
when to take rank and pay, • • 121 
COMMISS iRY DEPARTMENT—Agents of, allowed ex- 
penses, when absent, under orders, . 157 
COMMISSARY SERGE ANTS—How paid, . . 12. 
COMMISSIONERS—Under “Impressment Act,” report of, 
for Virginia and Georgia, . . 65 
under “ Impressment Act,” report of, for Virginia, 
[99, 115, 129, 144, 160 
COMMUT TION—Of rutions to men on furlough, how 
paid, .. . . 96 
of rations to disabled soldiers, . . 150 
of rations to men on firlough, regulations for, . 16 ; 
COMPANIES—New, cannot be formed from other, . 125 
hav.ng maximum, cannot receive recruits, . 125 
commanders of, to make monthly reports of all fur- 
loughed men, . . 130 
disbanded, - . (See Disbanded.) 
CONSCRIPTS—Army officers not to interfer# with, . 16 
assignments of, to be made by Conscript Bureau, 140 
cannot join “local defence” companies, . 150 
commandant of, to make repprts of, &cM . 16 
commandant of, may detail disabled officers and sol- 
diers as bridge guards, . . 137 
detailed, leaving their work, how treated, . 30 
employed on railroads, to remain until, . 2 
harsh treatment to, any officer guilty of, to be dis- 
charged, ... 1 
instructions for examination of, . . 22 
in c-rtain counties, to repair to Petersburg, . 4 
re-exainined, to be, (according to General Order 22,) 39 232 
No 
CONSCRIPTS—rolls of, to be made monthly, . 1 
sent to camps or regiments, how “discharged,” . 107 
regiments, must he received, . . 107 
surgeons for examining, how obtained, . 9, 15 
“ for examining, pay of, . 107, 124 
volunteer, cannot, in companies formed since 1st of 
April, 1862, . . .125 
volunteering in new companies to he demanded, 125 
“ must exhibit certificate, . . 125 
not allowed furloughs, . . 135 
CONSCRIPTION—Discharged soldiers liable to, . 89 
officers of, to assist in collecting arms left by strag- 
glers, . . . .119 
officers of, allowed expenses when absent under or- 
ders, . . . 133 
officers of, must not take conscripts as assistants with- 
out detailed by War Department, . . 135 
persons liable to, volunteering, may have furlough, 113 
persons liable to, volunteering, must report them- 
selves, . . . .113 
who are liable to, . . 1, 22, 98 
CONTRACTS—For iron, lead, &c., to be rigidly enforced, 14 
violated, detailed men to be withdrawn, . 14 
CONTRACTORS—Must not employ government workmen 
without proper discharge from former service, . 30 
paper, may send agents to armies and posts, , 80 
property of, exempt from impressment, . 49 
CORRESPONDENCE—Must be through regular channel, 3 
olficers must endorse their opinions on, . 3 
prescribed mode of, . . 28 
COURIERS AND GUIDES—Infantry, allowed 40 cents per 
day for horse, . . .77 
number of, allowed, . . .7 
to be obtained from infantry, . . 7 
COURTS OF ENQUIRY—Case of Blocker, Capt. H. F., . 40 
case of Chilton, Col. R. H., . . 04 
“ of Lovell, Gen. Mansfield, . .152 
“ of McLean, Lt. Col. E. E., . . 81 
“ of Nall, Lt. Thomas, . . 29 
“ of Norris, Maj. Win., . . 112 
COURT MARTIAL—Of Anderson, Lt. M. G., . 41 
of Arnold, Capt. J. Q., . . 68 
of Ballentine, Lt. H. J., . . . 95 
of Barlow, Priv T. W., . . 139 
of Bell, Capt. J. W., . . . 55 
of Brown, Lt. E. M. P., . . 139 
of Cannon, Priv. T. W., . . .139 
of Chesser, Lt. Jas, M., . , 139 233 
COURT MARTIAL—Continued. No. 
of Childress, Priv. John Q., J i 95 
of Clarke, Priv. Wm. G , . 95 
of Conntis, Lt. J. B., . , JOO 
of Cross, Asst. Surgeon Edward, . . 54 
of Duncan, Private John, .... 139 
of Edgeworth, Private C. . . . 97 
of Edwards, Lieut. Col. A. C. . . ; 139 
of Floweree, Lieut. Col. C. C. . . 91 
of Garner, Private Wm. . . . . 139 
of Gibson, Lieut. J. W. .... 50 
of Gore, Lieut. W. J. . . . . 139 
of Griswold, Major E. . . . . 47 
of Ouy, Lieut. Israel P. .... 95 
of Harlee, Captain R. Z. . . . 139 
of Hammell, Lieut. E. H. . . . 139 
of Hollis, Private Daniel, .... 139 
of Humphreys, Private J. R. • . . 95 
of Hunter, Col. F. M. .... 35 
of Johnson, Private F. W. . . . .139 
of Kent, Private Z. M. . . 100 
of Kent,. Private C. H. . . 139 
of Latrobe, Captain H. B. . . 27 
of Lockhart, Asst. Surgeon W. T. . 95 
of Long, Captain R. Y. L. . . 139 
of Maguire, Captain J. J. . 100 
of Marks, Major R. M. . . 35 
of Martin, Lieut. J. K. . , 56 
of Mathews, Private Allen, . . 78 
of Mayo, Col. R. M. . . 156 
of McClung, Lieut. E. S. . . 139 
of McCutchen, Private G. S. . 52 
of MeCoun, Major Gen. J. P. .83 
of Mitchell, Captain G. D. . 100-120 
of Mormon, Private George, . . 79 
of Nunnally, Private Grif. ... 95 
of Otey, Major Kirk, . , .42 
of Outlaw, Private Stephen, . 139 
of Pruitt, Lieut. W. C. . . 139 
of Reed, Captain W. S. . 95 
of Rickett, Private M . . 95 
of Rice, Lieut. L. A. . . 139 
of Roberts, Private T. . .139 
of Rowan, Captain Wm. S. . 72 
of Runnells, Private Major, . , 139 
of Saunders. Lieut. Robert W. . 63 
of Simmons, Lieut. J. R. ' . . 139 
of Smith, Private Henry, * . 95 
of Stockton. Adjt. J. N. . .43 
of Taylor, Private Henry, . . |,39 234 
COURT MARTIAL—Continued. No. 
of Underwood4 Serg’t Abner, . . 139 
of Whitehead, Private John, , 106 
of Wilder, Private Janies T. . . 27 
of Wood, Captain W. W. W. . 73 
of Wood, Private T. P. , . 139 
of Wortham, Lieuf. J. J. . . 139 
of Youngblood, Lieut. J. M. . . 134 
**•*#* 
Must not forfeit dues of Laundress, . , 17 
COURTS. 
Military, . (See Miliwsy Courts.) 
DECEASED SOLDIERS, . (See Soldiers.) 
DEPARTMENT— 
of Richmond,—What constitutes, . . 34 
of Southern Virginia,—What constitutes, . 34 
of North Carolina,—What constitutes, . 34 
DEPOTS— - (See Arsenals &c.) 
For Captured Slaves, . . 25 
Quartermaster—at certain points under special con- 
trol of Q M. General, . . 13, 114 
Quartermaster—officers at—must not be changed 
except by department, . . 114 
Quartermaster—Issues from, . . 13 
DESERTERS— 
A list of all—to be sent to Conscript Bureau, . 125 
Not allowed furloughs, on any pretext, . 135 
Officers tq collect—must report, . . 122 
Who are not, ... 19 
Who have joined other companies to be returned, 19 
DESERTION— 
Punishment for, . . 44 
DETACHED— 
No Brig. Gen. or Col. will be—without, . 28 
DETACHMENTS— 
Unaccompanied by Quartermasters, bow supplied, 155 
DETAIL— 
Of Cavalry for Couriers and Guides, to be discon- 
tinued, . . .7 
DETAILED— 
Men at Arsenals, &c.,—Reports must be made as t* 
pay, &c., of, - - - 33 
Men—Pay of, . . 75, 149 
“ of disbanded companies; how paid, . 80 
“ “ “ how discharged,” SO 
“ “ ‘ clothing for, SO 
“ “ “ to be reported to 
enrolling officer, * . SO 
Men, whenever fit for duty, to be returned, . 96 
Soldier? not regularly—must be returned, 94 235 
DIRECTORS— No, 
Medical, • . (See Medical Director?.) 
DISBANDED— 
Companies—Detailed men of—how paid, “ dischar- 
ged.*' &c, . . 80 
DISBANDING— 
Of Reg'ts. Batt’ns or Companies prohibited, . * 28 
DISBURSING OFFICERS— (See also Quartermasters. 
Charges against—to be reported to A. and I. G. 15 
Must not be arrested, . . 15 
Not to pay Army officers, without evidence of ap- 
pointment, . . .28 
Not to pay absent officers, without proper authority 
for absence, . . ,28 
Who are to be recommended a3, . 121 
DISCHARGES— 
Of Conscripts sent to Camps or Reg’is—how 107 
How given, . . . 14, 51, 69 
Notices of—to be forwarded, . . 51, 69 
Recommendations for—will only be given by Ex- 
amining Boards, . . . 141 
To be considered as conditional, . 89 
To soldiers who have furnished substitutes, . 87 
ELECTION— 
A majority of votes necessary to—of officers, 80 
EMPLOYEES— 
Government—must not leave work, . 30 
“ leaving work to be reported to enrolling 
officer, . . 30 
Not to be removed by enrolling officer, 32 
“ leaving work, not to employed, with- 
out a "discharge” from former employ 32 
ENGINEER OFFICERS— 
Allowed expenses, when absent under orders, 49 
Duties of, 90, 104 
Of Corps, not to assume command of Eng. Trcrops, 104 
Rank of—as between those of Corps and Troop, 104 
Regulations for—in the held, . . 90 
Senior—of Armies, responsible for the duties of, 90 
“ " will recommend assignments of 
other, . . 90 
u “ will report plans, &c., to Eng. 
Bureau, . . 90 
ENGINEER TROOPS— 
Duties of, 104 
Organization of, . „ 66 
“ Returns” of—to be made monthly, 66 
ENROLLED— 
Persons may be—wherever found, . 98 
Principal to Ue—whenever substitute deserts, 98 236 
ENROLLING OFFICERS— (See Conscription also ) No. 
Duty of, 3 
Entitled to fuel, &c. . . .13 
Must keep register of furloughed soldiers, 141 
Not to take conscripts as assistants, . . 135 
To take charge of all absentees, and forward to 
commands, . . .116 
To he attached to each military department, 116 
When soldier’s furlough expires, will order, &c. . 141, 157 
When furloughed soldier is neglected, will send, &c. 14 L 
ENTRENCHING TOOLS—To befurnished by engineer 
department, . . . 104 
EQUIPMENTS—Cavalry, captured by Partizan Rangers, 
How paid for, . . .20 
Private, Prie»of, . . 9 
Quarterly ‘•Returns”of-—must be promptly rendered, 148 
EXAMINERS—BOARD OF—For Conscripts, how com- 
posed, . . 9, 15 
For Conscripts, instructions to, . 22 
“ “ pay of, . . 107, 124 
For sick and wounded at hospital, how composed, S9 
For sick and wounded at hospital, must send certi- 
ficates to Surgeon General, . . 69 
For sick and wounded at hospital, must send notices 
to A. and I. G. 0. . . 69 
For sick and wounded at hospital, can’t grant leaves 
of absence to officers, . - 69 
EXCHANGE NOTICE—Of prisoners, - 5,58,123,143 
EXEMPTIONS—Doubtful cases of—how decided, 1 
For other than permanent disability, must be re- 
examined, . . . 135 
Of mail contractors and carriers, . . 44 
Of overseers, . . . 108, 116 
Of louta agents, . . .7 
Of State officers, , . 108 
Of such persons as President may direct, . 108 
Passports of citizenship, no claim to, . 153 
Temporary—to conscripts, . . 39 
When to take place, . . 1 
What are not sufficient causes for, . . 22 
EX*-OFFICERS— . (See Officers ) 
FORAGE—To whom issued and how much, . 151, 162 
FRAUD—Act to prevent—in Q M. and Com. Departnrts, 108 
FREIGHT—Messenger must travel with his, . 2 
Transportation for—how obtained, . . 2 
li of—general rules for, . 2 
FUEL—Enrolling officers, entitled to, . . 12 
For R. R. must not be interfered with, or used, 58 
FURLOUGHS—Commutation of, . . 20 
fi of due dec’d soldiers, 31 237 
No. 
FURLOUGHS—Commutation of, due promoted soldiers, 31 
“ of rations to men on, when paid, 96 
Extension of, . . 69, 96, 141 
How granted, . - 14, 51, 69 
Notices of, to be forwarded, . 51, 69, 130 
Recommendations for extension of —-fvho will make, 141, 157 
Soldiers on—how they must proceed, . 141 
Soldiers on—must not go inside enemy’s lines, 141 
To persons liable to conscription, volunteering, 113 
GENERALS—Brigadier—not to be detached, except, 2S 
Brigadier—must have “returns” of ordnance prompt- 
ly rendered, . . . 14S 
Commanding—must not refer sentenee by Court Mar- 
tial to Executive, except, . . 139 
Longstreet’s command, . . 34 
HIDES—beef, price of, . . . 34 
sheep, to be turned over to Q M.’s, . .119 
HONOR —roll of, . . . . 131 
HORSES—courier allowed 40c. per day for, . . 77 
estray—or left by enemy on farms, . . 61 
for artillery, to be impressed or purchased only by 
Major Cole’s officers, . . 142 
for commissary Department, to be impressed only by. 
that department, , . . 142 
public—to be given to artillery, . 60 
HOSPITAL—laundresses, . * . (See Laundress.) 
rations, . . . 62, 159, 164 
rations for attendants, . .59 
surgeons, . . . (See Surgeons.) 
HOSPITALS—board of examiners at, . . 69 
for prisoners of war. on same footing as other, 159 
general—control of, . . .28 
IMPRESSMENT—articles of—concealed, may be searched 
for, ... 92 
for field transportation, to be made exclusively by 
Major Cole’s officers. . . 142 
for Commissary Department, to be made only by that 
department, . . 142 
of contractor’s property, not allowed, . 49 
of whole of one article, how tax is paid, . 117 
regulations for, . . 31, 37, 39, 53, 144, 161 
regulations for, of iron, its mines and factories, 85 
“ for, of slaves. . . 138 
schedule of prices for Georgia, . . 65 
“ “ for Virginia, 65, 99, 115, 129, 144, 160 
“ “ for South Carolina, . 128 
INFANTRY—soldiers may be transferred to cavalry, when- 
ever, . . .67 
INSPECTORS—Medical, . (See Medical Inspectors.) 238 
No- 
'JRON—its mines and factories, may be impressed, leased or 
purchased, . . .85 
JOHNS, SURG. E. W.—rebeved, and orders revoked, 23 
LAUNDRESS—dues of—to be excepted from sentence of 
court ma rtial, . . 17 
hospital—pay of, . . .62 
LEATHER—for Ordnance Department, must not be inter- 
fered with, - . 28 
LOCAL DEFENCE—conscripts joining—to be discharged 
•» and conscripted, . . . 150 
nitre workmen will not be taken for, except, 127 
transfers to, from general service, not allowed, 135 
troops for, . . . (See Troops.) 
MEDICAL—directors, how appointed, . . 23 
directors, of armies not to interfere with general 
hospital, - 28 
directors, title of “ Asst.” not allowed, , 124 
inspectors, how appointed, . . 119 
inspectors, title of “ Asst.” not allowed, . 124 
officers, not to furnish certificates for light duty, 7 
purveyors must forward reports to Surgeon General, 23 
- purveyors, to receive instructions from Surgeon Gene- 
ral, ... 23 
MILITARY—commanders must not nppoi#t army officers, 
state of certain persons, claimed as deserters, . 1-9 
MILITARY COURTS—for Gen. Pemberton’s corps, 17 
for Gen. Hardee's corps, . . 17 
may be organized for c'epsytments also, . 108 
proceedings of. to be reviewed by corps command- 
ers, . . . It 
proceedings of, to be transmitted to A. & I. G. 0., 11 
to be governed as other courts martial, . li 
NITRE AND MINING BUREAU—act organizing, 88 
to enforce contracts, . . 14 
to pay traveling expenses of officers, 38, 102 
to impress iron, &c., . . .85 
to impress copper, coal, &c., . 133 
workmen of, will not be taken for “ local defence,” 
except, . . . 127 
OFFICERS—absent without leave, dropped, . '19 
absent, how paid, . . . 28, 57 
any, failing to make ordnance “returns,” to be court 
martialed, . . . 148 
army, to give facilities to agents for paper material, 80 
at arsenals and depots, to report to commanding gen- 
eral, . . .13 
at arsenals and depots, subject only to orders of War 
Department, . „ 13 OFFICERS—Continued : 
No. 
attention of commanding, called to G. O., No. 12, 1862, 149 
bonded, transfer of, not allowed without, . 8 
charge of government work, must not keep soldier 
without regular detail, . . 93 
if disbursing, . . (See Disbursing Officers.) 
elected to civil positrons, may resign, . 48 
election of, number of Vote^necessary to an, . 80 
Engineer, . (See Engineer Officers.) 
enrolling, . . (See Enrolling Officers.) 
ex, liable to conscription, . 1 
ex, to be at once enrolled, , . 24 
ex, when enrolled, may choose his company, 24 
general, must not receive conscripts as volunteer aids, 107 
general, or other, must return all absentees, 116 
impressment, may search for concealed articles, . 92 
invalid, not to be furnished with certilicates for light 
duty, . . . 7 
leaves ol absence for, how obtained, 69. 96, 141 
medical, . (See Medical Officers.) 
making reports must give facts only, . 76 
military, interfere with R. R’s., . 2 
must certify on their pay accounts, that they have not 
been absent without leave, . . 108 
not to be assigned to duty until appointment is re- 
ceived, - ' . . 121 
not to be relieved, and ordered to report to A. & I. G, 
O., unless, . . . 141 
of reorganized commands, rank of, . 24 
ordnance, . . (See Ordnance Officers.) 
payment of, regulations for, . . 28, 57 
railroad, must have full control, , 2, 26 
rank of how determined, ,24 
regimental, musttaks up o* their must6r rolls all con- 
scripts sent them, . , 107 
sales to, how made, . . . 70 
sick and wounded, allowed hospital accommodations, 71 
signal, . , (See SIGNAL OFFICERS.) 
when entitled to pay, . .121 
OPERATORS— . . (See Telegraph.) 
ORDERS—of A. & I. G. have force of Regulations, 147 
of A. & I G., how authenticated, . 147 
ORDNANt'E DEPARTMENT—to furnish arms to engineer 
troops, ... . 104 
ORDNANCE OFFICERS—absent under ordeis, to be al- 
lowed expenses, . . ,67 
acting, to remain on duty till relieved, . 33 
pay cf, » . , \2 ORDNANCE OFFICERS-Continued: 
No. 
assistant, to cliief, of armies, . • 110 
brigade and district, must give assistance in having 
“ returns,” made, . » . 148 
chief, of armies, to be removed or assigned only by 
War Department, . . %. 84 
chief, to report all who fail to make “returns,” . 148 
commissions for, when and Jio\Vissued, . 12 
designation of chief, and others, . .110 
distribution of, in grades, . . 110 
distribution of, for duty, . . 110 
do not form part of personal staff, . 84 
order assigning or removing, to be sent to Ordnance 
Bureau, , . .84 
other than chief, may be assigned or removed by de- 
partment commanders, . . 84 
pay of acting, . . .12 
who are, , 33 
who have passed examination may be placed on 
duty, • . .12 
ORDNANCE SERGEANTS—must not make returns to Ord- 
nance Bureau, . . 59 
ORDNANCE AND STORES—accounts paid for, other than 
allowed in manual, will not be allowed in settle- 
ment, . . . 154 
at certain points, how drawn, . 13 
captured by partisan rangers, how paid for, . 20 
of regiments or battalions, to be reported by com- 
manding officers, i . 59 
reported unserviceable, to be inspected, . 21 
requisition for, to supply deficiency, must show, &c., 21 
returns of, . . 20 
what, are allowed to be purchased or fabricated, 154 
OVERSEERS—on what terms exempted, . 108,116 
PAPER—contractors for, authorized to send agents to ar- 
mies and posts, . . .80 
PARDON—a general, by the President to soldiers absent 
without leave, . . 109 
PARTISAN RANGERS—rights of, . . 47 
to be placed under same regulations as other troops, 82 
PASSPORTS—of citizenship, from State Department, do not 
“ exempt,” . . . 153 
not required on furloughs granted from general hospi- 
tals, . . . .69 
PAY—of absent officers, regulations for, . 28, 57, 126 
of commissary sergeants, . . 124 
of detailed men, . . 33, 75, 149 
of engineer troops, . . ' 66 PAY—Continued : 
No. 
of sick and wounded in hospital, . 130 
of soldiers absent without leave, not allowed for such 
time, . . . 108 
of soldiers not legally mustered into service, 108 
of telegraph operators, . . 88 
■when officers are entitled to, . . 121 
POSTS—commandants of, to report all slaves serving at, 
without written authority, 59 
when provost marshals are needed, to be reported, 74 
POTATOES—of tax, to be delivered to hospitals, 124 
PRISONERS OF WAR—hospitals for, how managed, 159 
PROVISION RETURNS—commanding officer must ex- 
amine, . . 149 
PROVOST MARSHALS—appointments of, . 74 
no civilian can be, . . 74 
to report, monthly, all civilians and otners in confine- 
ment, ... 33 
PUBLIC PROPERTY—how accounted for, and how dis- 
posed of, . .6 
PURVEYORS— . . (See Mkdical Purveyors.) 
QUARTERMASTERS—certain, dropped, . 121 
certain, to be allowed furlough for execution of bond, 121 
chief, to report all subordinate, to Q. M. Gen,, . 118 
depot, will furnish grain sacks, &c., . 103 
“ will report themselves to Q. M. Gen , . 118 
how they will supply “Detachments” unaccompanied 
by, . . . 155 
must keep hospital ambulances and wagons in good 
order, . . .34 
must furnish accommodations for stock under charge 
of Col. Cole's officers, . . 162 
not to pay absentees, who have insufficient authority 
for absence, . . .15, 28 
not to pay officers or men, for such time as they have 
been absent without leave, . 108 
not to employ able bodied men as clerks, . 105 
obliged to receive “ Tax in kind,” when offered, 117 
of field transportation, absent Under orders, allowed 
. . . 135 
paying absent officers, to give certificates, . 28, 57 
paying absent officers, must demand authority for 
absence, . . . 15,28 
post, will report themselves to Q. M. Gen , . 118 
post, to receive “ Tax in kind,” . 132 
regimental, to perform duties of commissary, . 70 
to assist in collecting arms left by stragglers, 119 
to furnish transportation for tax in kind, , 111 QUARTERMASTERS—Continued : 
No. 
to receive.exemption pay from overseers, . 116 
to keep their accounts of tax in kind separate, . 117 
to pay commutation of furloughs, and at what rate, 20 
to take charge of money of deceased soldiers, . 67 
to receive hides, . . 119 
to make requisitions for field transportation on Chief 
of “ District,” . . . 142 
will furnish transportation for paper material, SO 
will only allow a two horse wagon for hospital use, 45 
who become detached, dropped, . . 70 
will report themselves to Q. M. Gen., . 118 
when to take rank and pay, . . 121 
QUARTERMASTER’S DEPARTMENT—not to interfere 
with leather for Ordnance Department, . 28 
to issue fuel to enrolling officers, . . 12 
to furnish horses, wagons, &c., to Eng. troops, 104 
QUARTERMASTERS’ DEPOTS— . (See Depots.) 
QUARTERMASTER GENERAL—authorized to “ District” 
the C. S., ' . 142 
to appoint agents to purchase wool, . 6 
to rank as Brig. General, . . 108 
RAIL ROADS—control of, . . 2. 26 
fuel for. not to be interfered with, . . 58 
military officers must not interfere with, . 2 
not to be blocked up unnecessarily. . 2 
transportation by. how obtained for troops and freight, 2 
troops or freight moving out of regular routine of, 
how lime i- fixed, . . 2 
RAIL ROAD OFFICERS—retni-sness on part of, to be 
repotted, . . .2 
RANK—of officers, under Cons Act. how determined, 24 
of officer.- in Engineer Troop and Eng ( orps. 104 
RATIONS—commanding officers, have no power to change, 103 
commutation of. to disabled -oldiers, . 150 
commutation of, regulations for, . 162 
. for sick and wounded. . .59 
for sick and wounded, value of, . 62 
hospital, . . . 159, 164 
of men on furlough, when paid, . 96 
of salt, what is, . . 103 
to be issued to “discharged” soldiers, at way side 
hospitals, . . 96 
REPORTS—official, must give farts only, . 76 
RETALIATION:—resolutions of C ngtess concerning, 108 
ROUTE AGENTS—exemption of, and how, . .7 
when appointment fails, or term expires, to report, 7 
SALT—wlmt is “ Ration” of, . . 103 No. 
SHOEMAKERS—detailed pay of, . . 75 
SIGNAL OFFICERS—must '• report” through senior officer, 10 
to be assigned by A. and I. G., . . 10 
who are, . . , 10 
SLAVES—captured by, or employed in army, depots for, 25 
captured by, or employed in army, reports of, , 25 
regulations for impressment of, . 138 
serving in army or hospital without written authority, 
to be, &c., . . .59 
SOLDIERS—absent without leave, doing government work, 
to be returned to commands, . . 94 
absent without leave, to receive no pay for such time, 108 
clothing for, cost of, . . 146 
deceased, clothing of, how disposed of, . • 49,93 
“ effects of, . . 67 
disabled, may be detailed for guarding bridges, &c., 137 
commutation of lations to, . 150 
discharged, payments to, . . 51, 69 
detailed, . (See Detailed Soldiers) 
elected to civil positions, to be dir charged, . 48 
Infantry, acting as courier, allowed 40 cents per day, 
for horse, ... 77 
not to be employed as servants, . .20 
“ punished by whipping, . 44 
not fit for u Discharge,” may be recommended for detail, 96 
nf disbanded companies on detail, . . 80 
on furlough, must report to nearest enrolling officer, 141 
“ must not go inside enemy's lines, . 141 
overstaying furlough to be reported, . 130 
sick and wounded, payments to, . . 130 
tn receive pay for clothing, under certain circumstances, 136 
who have furnished substitutes, how discharged, 87 
STAFF APPOINTMENTS—rules to be observed in mak- 
ing. . . .8, 28, 163 
STOREKEEPERS—military, act authorizing additional, 108 
STRAGGLERS—and deserters, to be ar.ested by enrolling 
officers, . . .1 
SUBSTITUTES—a list of all, to be sent to Conscription 
Bureau, . . . 125 
deserting, the principal liable, . , 88 
discharges of, held as conditional, . 89 
how enlisted . . .87 
medical examination of, . . 141 
when < ithin conscript age, principal to be also held, 1 
SUPPLIES—For Army, . (See Abmy Supplies ) 
in iransitn to marketvjiot to be impressed, . 144 
SURGEONS—cannot extend furloughs, . 96 
house, to visit patients daily, . . 69 SURGEONS—Continued ; 
No. ' 
of hospitals, to report all slaves, without written au- 
thority of master, . . 59 
of hospitals, to make separate provision “Returns,” 59 
to examine conscripts, two may come from same dis- 
trict, when, . . 9, 15 
to examine conscripts, pay of, . 107, 124 
to endorse on furlough, the number of Rations drawn, 162 
to turn over effects of deceased soldiers, and how, 67 
TAX IN KIND—regulations for payment of, . 117 
TELEGRAPH—operators, pay of, , . 88 
TRANSFER—from army to navy, . .108 
from “ General” to “Local” service, not allowed, 135 
of bonded officers, not allowed, except, . 8 
TRANSPORTATION—allowed once on furloughs, . 108 
for troops and freight, how obtained, . 2 
for private property, act to prevent obtaining, . 108 
field, placed entirely under charge of Col. Cole, 142 
field, inspection of how made, . . 142 
what deduction shall be made for, on impressed 
articles, . . • 129 
TROOPS—authority to raise, revoked, except, . 18 
authority to raise, what may be granted, . 18 
called out by the Governor of Virginia to be mustered 
into service, . . .4 
“ detatchments” of, unaccompanied by Q M., how 
supplied, . . . 155 
engineer, . . (See Engineer Troops ) 
for “local defence,” how raised and organized, 86 
“ “ “ regulatians governing, . 86, 98 
not to exchange their arms on battlefield, . 19 
VALOR AND SKILL—roll of honor, for those distinguished 
for, .... 131 
VOTING—in army, Act of Va. Legislature, . 38 
WHISKEY—Isssue of; forbidden, except, . 45 
WOOL—not to be purchased except by certain officers. 6  
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