Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, August 26, 1862 
GENERAL ORDERS, ? 
No. 62. 5 
I. Major General Huger having been appointed Inspector of Ord- 
nance and Artillery for the C. S. Army, is authorized to inspect and ex- 
amine into all the establishments of the Ordnance Department, and .the 
Works of all Contractors for this Department, including all foundries, 
and mines of iron, lead, copper and nitre working under permanent con- 
tract, and the condition and armament of all forts and batteries, and to 
give such orders and instructions as will tend to increase their efficiency: 
All Commanding Officers and others in charge of such works, are required 
to give him all facilities and assistance in their power in the performance 
of his duties. Such orders and instructions as he may consider necessary, 
and as do not conflict with the Orders of this Department, will he con- 
sidered the Orders of the War Department, and will be transmitted, at 
once, through the office of the Chief of Ordnance. Reports of inspec- 
tions will be remitted to the War Department, through the same chan- 
nels. The rules and mode of inspection will be, in other respects, in con- 
formity with section II of the Regulations of the Ordnance Department, 
approved February 1, 1862. All officers of the Quartermaster’s Depart- 
ment are required to furnish transportation to himself and his aids and 
assistants, on his order. Where there are no lines of transportation, he 
will procure it, and keep an account of the actual expenses; which ac- 
count will be paid by the Quartermaster’s Department, on his certificate 
and order. 
11. It is hereby announced, that no oath of allegiance to the United 
States, and no parole by a person not in military service, pledging him- 
self not to bear arms against the United States, will be*regarded as an 
exemption from service in the Armies of the Confederate States; but 
persons liable to conscription taking such oath or giving such parole, 
will be enrolled for service. If captured by the enemy, they will be 
demanded, and paroled as prisoners of war. 
order. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
S. COOPER,