Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, November 3, 1862. 
GENERAL ORDERS,\ 
No. 82. S 
I. The following’ Acts of Congress and Regulations are published for 
the information of all concerned: 
In view of the exigencies of the country, and the absolute necessity of keeping in 
the service our gallant army, and of placing in the field a large additional force to 
meet the advancing columns of the enemy now invading our soil: Therefore, 
An Act to further provide for the Public Defence. 
SEC. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Presi- 
dent bo and he is hereby authorized to call out and place in the military service of 
the Confederate States, for three years, unless the war shall have been sooner ended, 
all white men who are residents of the Confederate States, between the ages of 18 
and 35 years at the time the call or calls may be made, who are legally exempted 
from military service. All of the persons aforesaid who are now in the armies of 
the Confederacy, and whose term of service will expire before the end of the war, 
shall be continued in the service for three years from the date of their original en- 
listment, unless the war shall have been sooner ended: provided, however, that all 
such companies, squadrons, battalions and regiments, whoso term of original enlist- 
ment was for twelve months, shall have the right, within forty days, on a day to be 
fixed by the commander of the brigade, to reorganize said companies, battalions and 
regiments, by electing all their officers which they had a right heretofore to elect, 
who shall be commissioned by the President: provided further, that furloughs not 
exceeding sixty days, with transportation home and back, shall be granted to all 
those retained in the service by the provisions of this act, beyond the period of their 
original enlistment, and who have not heretofore received furloughs under the pro- 
visions of an act entitled “an act providing for the granting of bounty and furloughs 
to privates and non-commissioned officers in the provisional army,” approved 11th 
December eighteen hundred and sixty-one; said furloughs to be granted at such 
times and in such numbers as the Secretary of War may deem most compatible with 
the public interest: and provided further, that in lieu of a furlough, the commuta- 
tion value in money of the ti'&nsportation herein above granted, shall be paid to 
each private, musician or non-commissioned officer who may elect to rpceivo it, at 
such time as the furlough would otherwise be granted: provided further, that all 
persons under the age of 18 years or over the age of .35 years, who are now enrolled 
in the military service of the Confederate States, in the regiments, squadrons, bat- 
talions and companies hereafter to be reorganized, shall be required to remain in 
their respective companies, squadrons, battalions and regiments for ninety days, un- 
less their places can be sooner supplied by other recruits not now in the service, 
who arc between the ages of 18 and 35 years: And all laws and parts of laws pro- 2 
vidingfor the re-'enlistment of volunteers and the organization thereof into compa- 
nies, squadrons, battalions or regiments, shall be and the same are hereby repealed. 
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That such companies, squadrons, battalions or regi- 
ments organized, or in process of organization by authority from (he Secretary of 
"War, as may be within thirty days from the passage of this act, so far completed 
as to have the wholo’number of men requisite f r organization actually enrolled, not 
embracing in said organizations any persons now in service, shall be mustered into 
the service of the Confederate States as part of the land forces of the same; to be 
received in that arm of the service in which they are authorized to organize ; and 
shall elect their company, battaljon and regimental officers. 
Sue. 3. Be it further enacted, That for the enrollment of all persons comprehended 
within the provisions of this act, who are not already in service in the armies of the 
Confederate States, it shall be lawful for the President, with the consent of the Go- 
vernors of the respective States, to employ State officers; and on failure to obtain. 
snsh consent, he .shall employ Confederate officers, charged with the duty of mak- 
ing such enrollment in accordance with rules and regulations to bo prescribed by 
him. 
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted' That persons enrolled under the provisions of the 
preceding section, shall be assigned by the Secretary of War to the different com- 
panies now in service, until each company is filled to its maximum number, and the 
persons so enrolled shall be assigned to companies from the States from which they 
respectively come. 
SEC. 5. Beit further enacted, That all seamen and ordinary seamen in the land 
forces of the Confederate States, enrolled under the provisions of this act, may, on 
application of the Secretary of the Navy, be transferred from the land forces to the 
naval service. 
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That in ail cases where a State may not have in the 
army a number of regiments, battalions, squadrons or companies sufficient to ab- 
sorb the number of persons subject to military service under this act, belonging to 
such State, then the residue or excess thereof shall be kept as a reserve, under such 
regulations as may bo established by the Secretary of War, and that at stated 
periods of not greater than three months, details, determined by lot, shall be made 
from said reserve, so that each company shall, as nearly as practicable, be kept full: 
■provided, that the persons held in reserve may remain at home until called into ser- 
vice by the President: provided also, that during their stay at home, they shall not 
receive pay: provided further, that the persons comprehended in this act, shall not 
be subject to the Rules and Articles of War until mustered into the actual service 
of the Confederate States ; except that said persons, when enrolled and liable to 
duty, if they shall willfully refuse to obey said call, each of them shall be held to 
be a deserter, and punished as such, under said Articles : provided further, that 
whenever, in the opinion of the President, the exigencies of the public service may 
require it, he shall be authorized to call into actual service the eni.ire reserve, or so 
much as may be necessary, not previously assigned to different companies in service 
under provision of section four of this act. Said reserve shall be organized under 
such rules as the Secretary of War may adopt: provided, the company, battalion 
and regimental officers shall be elected by the troops composing the same : provided, 
the troops raised in any one State shall not be combined in regimental, battalion, 
squadron or company organization with troops raised in any other States. 3 
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That all soldiers now serving in the army or mus- 
tered in the military service of the Confederate States, or enrolled in said service 
under the authorizations heretofore issued by the Secretary of War, and who are 
continued in the service by virtue of this act, who have not received the bounty of 
fifty dollars allowed by existing laws, shall be entitled to receive said bounty. 
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That each man who may hereafter bo mustered into 
the service, and who shall arm himself with a musket, shot-gun, rifle or carbine, 
accepted as an efficient weapon, shall be paid the value thereof, to be ascertained 
by the mustering officer, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secre- 
tary of War, if he is willing to sell the same ; and if he is not, then ho shall be en- 
titled to receive one dollar a month for the use of said received and approved mus- 
ket, rifle, shot-gun or carbine. 
Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That persons not liable for.duty may bo received as 
substitutes for those who are, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the 
Secretary of War. 
Sec. 10. Be it farther enacted, That all vacancies shall he filled by the President 
from the company, battalion, squadron or regiment in which such vacancies shall 
occur, by promotion according to seniority, except in cases of disability or other 
incompetenoy : provided, however, that the President may, when in his opinion it 
may be proper, till such vacancy or vacancies by the promotion of any officer or 
officers, or private or privates from such company, battalion, squadron or regiment 
who shall have been distinguished in the service by exhibition of valor and skill, 
and that whenever a vacancy shall occur in the lowest grade of the commissioned 
officers of a company, said vacancy shall be filled by election: provided, that all 
appointments made by the President shall be by and with the advice and consent 
of the Senate. 
Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of the first section of this act 
relating to the election of officers, shall apply to those regiments, battalions, and 
squadrons which are composed of twelve months and war companies combined in 
the same organization, without regard to the manner in which the officers thereof 
were originally appointed. 
SEC. 12. Be it farther enacted, That each company of infantry shall consist of one 
hundred and twenty-five, rank and file ; each company of field artillery of one 
hundred and fifty, rank and file; and each of cavalry, of eighty, rank and file. 
Sec. 13. Be it further enacted. That all persons subject to enrollment, who are not 
now in the service, under the provisions of this act, shall be permitted, previous to 
such enrollment, to volunteer in companies now in the service. [ Approved April 
16th, 1862.] 
[No. 17.] 
An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide further for the 
Public Defence, approved April 16, 1862. 
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President ba 
and be is hereby authorized to call out and place in the, military service of the Con- 
federate States for three years, unless the war should have been sooner ended, all 
white men who are residents of the Confederate States, between the ages of thirty- 4 
iive and forty-flvo years, at the time the call or calls may be made, and who are not, 
at such time or times, legally exempted from military service, or such part thereof 
as, in his judgment, may bo necessary to the public defence; such call or calls to be 
made, under the provisions and according to the terms of the act to which this is an 
amendment: and such authority shall exist in the President, during the present war, 
as to all persons who now are or may hereafter become eighteen years of age ; and 
when once enrolled, all persons between the ages of eighteen and forty-five shall 
serve their full time: provided, that if the President, in calling out troops into the 
service of the Confederate States, shall first call for only a part of the persons be- 
tween the ages heretofore stated, he shall call for those between the ages of thirty- 
five and any other age less than forty fi.v§: provided, that nothing herein con- 
tained shall be understood as repealing or modifying any part of the act to which 
this is amendatory, except as herein expressly stated; and provided further, that 
those called out under this act, and the act to which this is an amendment, shall be 
first and immediately ordered to fill to their maximum number the companies, bat- 
talions, squadrons and regiments from the respective States at the time the act to 
further provide for the public defence, approved 16th April 1862, was passed, and 
the surplus, if any, shall be assigned to organizations formed from each State since 
the passage of that act, or placed in new organizations to be officered by the State 
having such residue, according to the laws thereof, or disposed of as now provided 
bylaw: provided, that the President is authorized to suspend the execution of 
this act, or the act to which this is an amendment, in any locality where he may find 
it impracticable to execute the same, and that in such locality, and during said sus- 
pension, the President is authorized to receive troops into the Confederate service, 
under any of the acts passed by the Confederate Congress prior to the passage of 
the act to provide further for the public defence, approved 16th April 1862. [Ap- 
proved September 27, 1862.] 
[No 53.] 
An Act to exempt certain persons from Military Duty, and to repeal 
an Act entitled “An Act to exempt certain persons from Enroll- 
ment for Service in the Army of the Confederate States,” approved 
21st Apri£. 1862. 
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all persons who 
shall ho held unfit for military service in the field, by reason of bodily or mental 
incapacity or imbecility, under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of War; the 
Vice-President of the Confederate States; the officers, judicial and executive, of the 
Confederate and State Governments, including postmasters appointed by the Presi- 
dent and confirmed by the Senate, and such clerks in their offices as are allowed by 
the Postmaster General, and now employed, and excluding all other postmasters, 
their assistants and clerks, and except such State officers as the several States may 
have declared, or may hereafter declare by law to be liable to militia duty ; the 
members of both Houses of the Congress of the Confederate States, and of the 
Legislatures of the several States, and their respective officers; all clerks now in 
the offices of the Confederate and State Governments authorized by law, receiving 
salaries or fees; all volunteer troops, heretofore raised by any State since the pas- 
sage of the act entitled “An Act further to provide for the public defence,” ap- 
proved April 16th, 1862, while such troops shall be in active sex-vice under State 5 
authority : provided, that this exemption shall not apply to any person who was 
liable to be called into service by Virtue of said act of April 16th, 1862; all pilots 
and persons engaged in the merchant marine service; the president, superinten- 
dents, conductors, treasurer, chief clerk, engineers, managers, station agents, sec- 
tion masters, two expert track hands to each section of eight miles, and mechanics 
in the active service and employment of rail road companies, not to embrace labo- 
rers, porters and messengers; the president, general superintendent and operators 
of telegraph companies, the local superintendent and operators of said companies, 
not to exceed four in number at any locality, but that at the seat of Government of 
the Confederate States; the president, superintendents, captains, engineers, chief 
clerk and mechanics in the active service and employment of all companies engaged 
in river and canal navigation, and all captains of boats and engineers therein em- 
ployed; one editor of each newspaper now being published, and such employees as 
the editor or proprietor may certify upon oath to be indispensable for conducting 
the publication ; the public printer, and those employed to perform the public print- 
ing for the Confederate and State Governments; every minister of religion autho- 
rized to preach according to the rules of his sect and in the regular discharge of 
ministerial duties, and all persons who have been and now are members of the 
society of Friends and the association of Dunkards, Nazarenes and Mennonists, in 
regular membership in their respective denominations: provided, members of the 
society of Friends, Nazarenes, Mennonists and Dunkards shall furnish substitutes 
or pay a tax of SSOO each into the public treasury; all physicians who now are, and 
for the last five years have been, in actual practice of their profession; all shoe- 
makers, tanners, blacksmiths, wagon-makers, millers and their engineers, mill- 
wrights, skilled and actually employed at their regular vocation in the said trades, 
habitually engaged in working for the public, and whilst so actually employed: 
provided, said persons shall make oath in writing that they are so skilled and actu- 
ally employed at the time at their regular vocation in one of the above trades; 
which affidavit shall only be prima facia evidence of the facts therein stated: 
provided further, that the exemptions herein granted to persons by reason of their 
peculiar mechanical or other occupation or employment, not. connected with the 
public service, shall be subject to the condition that the products of the labor of 
such exempts, or of the companies and establishments with which they are con- 
nected, shall be sold and disposed of by the proprietors at prices not exceeding 
seventy-five per centum upon the cost of production, or within a maximum to be- 
fixed by the Secretary of War, under such regulations as he may prescribe: and 
it is further provided, that if the proprietors of any such manufacturing establish- 
ments shall be shown, upon evidence, to be submitted to, and judged of, by the Sec- 
retary of War, to have violated, or in any manner evaded the true intent and spirit 
of the foregoing proviso, the exemptions therein granted shall no longer he ex- 
tended to them, their superintendents or operatives in said establishments, but they 
and each and every of them shall be forthwith enrolled under the provisions of this 
act, and ordered into the Confederate army, and shall, in no event, be again ex- 
empted therefrom by reason of said manufacturing establishments or employment 
therein; all superintendents of public hospitals, lunatic asylums, and the regular 
physicians, nurses and attendants therein, and the teachers employed in the institu- 
tions for the deaf, dumb and blind; in each apothecary store, now established and 
doing business, one apothecary in good standing, who is a practical apothecary; 6 
superintendents and operators in wool and cotton factories, paper mills, and super- 
intendents and managers of wool carding machines, who may be exempted by the 
Secretary of War: provided, the profits of such establishments shall not exceed 
seventy-five per centum upon the cost of production, to he determined upon oath 
of the parties, subject to the same, penalties for violation of the provisions herein 
contained as are herein ,before provided in case of other manufacturing and mechani- 
cal employments; all presidents and teachers of colleges, academies, schools and 
theological seminaries, who have been regularly engaged as such for two years pre- 
vious to the passage of this act; all artisans, mechanics and employees, in the estab- 
lishments of the government for the manufacture of, arms, ordnance, ordnance 
stores and other munitions of war, saddles, harness and army supplies, who may be 
certified by the officer in charge thereof, as necessary for such establishments; also, 
all artizans, mechanics, and employees in the establishments of such persons as are 
or may be engaged under contracts with the government in furnishing arms, ord- 
nance, ordnance stores, and other munitions of war: provided, that the chief of the 
ordnance bureau, or some ordnance officer authorized by him for the purpose, shall 
approve of the number of the operatives required in such establishments; all per- 
sons employed in the manufacture of arms, or ordnance of any kind by the several 
states; or by contractors to furnish the same to the several state governments, 
whom the Governor or Secretary of State thereof may certify to ho necessary to 
the same ; all persons engaged in the construction of ships, gun boats, engines, sails, 
or other articles necessary to the public defence, under the direction of the Secre- 
tary of the Navy; all superintendents, managers, mechanics, and miners employed 
in the production and manufacture of salt to the extent of 20 bushels per day, and 
of lead and iron, and all persons engaged in burning coke for smelting, and manu- 
facture of iron; regular miners in coal mines, and all colliers engaged in making 
charcoal for making pig and bar iron, not to embrace laborers, messengers, wagoners 
and servants, unless employed at works conducted under the authority and by the 
officers or agents of a State, or in works employed in the production of iron for the 
Confederate States ; one male citizen for every 500 head of cattle, for every 250 head 
of horses or mules, and one shepherd for every 500 head of sheep, of such persons 
as are engaged exclusively in raising stock: provided, that there is no white male 
adult not liable to do military duty engaged with such person in raising stock; to 
secure the proper police of the country, one person either as agent, owner or over- 
seer, on each plantation 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 do military service; and in States having no sttoh 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 service : 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, on which there is no white male adult 
not liable to military duty, one person, being the oldest of the owners or overseers 
on such plantations; and such other persons as the President shall he satisfied, on 
account of justice, equity or necessity, ought to be exempted, are hereby exempted 
from military service in the armies of the Confederate States; also, a regiment raised 
under and by authority of the -State of Texas for frontier defence, now in the service 
of said State, while in such service: provided further, that the exemptions herein 
above enumerated and granted hereby, shall only continue whilst the persons ex- 
empted are actually engaged in their respective pursuits or occupations. 7 
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the act entitled “an act to exempt certain per- 
sons from enrollment for service in the armies of the Confederate States,” approved 
the 21st of April 1862, is hereby repealed. [Approved October 11, 1862. ] 
[No. 42.] 
An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to further provide for 
the Public Defence,” approved 16th April 1862, and the Act to amend 
the same, approved September 27th, 1862. 
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all persons subject 
to enrollment for military service, may be enrolled under instructions from the War 
Department, and reported by the enrolling officer wherever found, whether within 
the state or county of their residence or not; and when so enrolled, shall be subject 
to the provisions of law as fully as if enrolled within the county and state of which 
they may be residents: provided, that this act shall not extend to any member of a 
military organization under any State law, while he remains in actual service with- 
out the limits of his State: and provided further, that the President is authorized to 
suspend the execution of this act as regards the residents of any locally where he 
may find it impracticable to execute the act entitled “ an act to further provide for 
the public defence,” approved April 16th, 1862, and the act to amend the last men- 
tioned act, approved September 27th, 1862. [Approved October 8, 1862.] 
(No. 49.) 
An Act to establish places of Rendezvous for the examination of 
Enrolled Men. 
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That there shall be 
established in each county, parish or district, and in any city in a county, parish or 
district in the several States, a place of rendezvous for the persons in said county, 
district, parish or city, enrolled for military duty in the field, who shall be there 
examined by one or more surgeons to bo employed by the government, to be assigned 
to that duty by the President on a day of which ten days’ notice shall be given by 
said Surgeon, and from day to day next thereafter until all who shall be in attendance 
for the purpose of examination shall have been examined ; and the decision of said 
surgeons, under regulations to be established by the Secretary of War, as to the 
physical and mental capacity of any such person for military duty in the field, shall 
be final; and those only thus ascertained to he fit for military duty in the field shall 
be required to assemble at camps of instruction. 
SEC. 2. There shall be assigned to each Congressional District in the several 
States, three surgeons, who shall constitute a board of examination in such district 
for the purpose specified in the foregoing section, any one or more of whom may 
act at any place of rendezvous in said districts. 
SEC. 3. When it shall appear to any surgeon attending such place of rendezvous, 
by the certificate of a respectable physician resident in that county, district, parish 
or city in a county, parish or district, that any enrolled person therein is unable to 
attend on account of sickness, it shall be the duty of said surgeon to file said certi- 
cate with the commandant of the nearest camp of Instruction ; and if the person 8 
named therein shall not within a reasonable time report himself for examination at 
gaid camp of instruction, or his continued disability certified by the certificate of a 
respectable physician of his county, city, district or parish, he shall be held liable as 
absent without leave of his commanding officer. [Approved October 11,1862.] 
11. Commandants of Conscripts and Camps of Instruction. 
1. An officer, styled the Commandant of Conscripts, will be ap- 
pointed for each State, who will be charged with the supervision of 
the enrollment and disposition of conscripts. He will establish one or 
more camps, in which conscripts will be assembled and instructed, and 
may recommend for appointment a Surgeon, a Quartermaster, a Commis- 
sary, and the requisite number of Drillmasters for each camp. If more 
than one camp be established, he may also recommend a commandant 
for each camp not under his own immediate command. 
2. A hospital will be established and huts for winter quarters con- 
structed at each camp; and all conscripts assembled at the camps will be 
promptly vaccinated, if it has not already been done. 
3. The Commandant of Conscripts will require from each camp a 
report on the first Monday in every month, showing the expenses of 
the preceding month; the number of conscripts in the camp; the num- 
ber received and sent away during the preceding month; the regiments, 
battalions or companies to which they were sent; the number transferred 
to the navy; the number of sick; the nature of their diseases, and the 
number of deaths. He will make a consolidated monthly report to the 
Adjutant and Inspector General of the army. 
4. The Commandants of Conscripts east of the Mississippi river will 
receive orders only from the War Department, and will not be interfered 
with by Generals commanding departments or armies in the field. West 
of the Mississippi they will report to and receive instructions from the 
Commanding General of the Trans-Mississippi department, who will re- 
quire them to conform as nearly as possible to this order, and to the regu- 
lations prescribed for commandants east of the Mississippi. He will 
make a consolidated monthly report to the Adjutant and Inspector Gene- 
ral of the army. 
5. The commandants of all regiments, battalions, squadrons or unat- 
tached companies which were in service on the 16th of April 1862, de- 
siring to receive conscripts, may transmit, through the Adjutant and In- 
spector General of the army, statements of the strength of their com- 
mands, to the Commandant of Conscripts in their respective States, who, 9 
unless otherwise ordered, will, as far as practicable, distribute the con- 
scripts of the State among its regiments, battalions and companies 
thereof, in proportion to their respective deficiencies. 
He will consult the wishes of the conscripts in assigning them to com- 
panies or regiments, so far as may be consistent with their proper distri- 
bution, and will not separate men from the same county, district or parish, 
if it can be avoided. The same rule will be observed by the comman- 
dants of corps in assigning conscripts to companies. 
6. Conscripts for cavalry will only be taken from those who furnish 
their own horses. No conscripts can be assigned to companies mustered 
into service since the 16th of April 1862. 
7. The Commandants of Conscripts are specially enjoined to pay un- 
ceasing attention to the health, comfort and instruction of the conscripts 
under their command, and to bear in mind that the efficiency of the army 
and the safety of the country depend in a great measure upon their 
faithful discharge of these duties. 
111. Enrollment of Conscripts. 
All white male residents of the Confederate States, between the ages of 
18 and 40, not exempted by Act of Congress, or not already in the service, 
will be enrolled. Persons liable to enrollment may be enrolled wherever 
they may be found, as provided by the Act No. 42, herewith published. 
IV. Undomiciled Foreigners. 
1. Foreigners not domiciled in the Confederate States are not liable to 
enrollment. Domicil in the Confederate States consists in residence with 
intention permanently to remain in those States, and to abandon domicil 
elsewhere. Long residence of itself does not constitute domicil. *A per- 
son may acquire domicil in less than one year, and he may not acquire it 
in twenty years’ residence. If there is a determination to return to the 
native country and to retain the domicil there, no length of residence can 
confer domicil. 
The principal evidences of intention to remain are the declarations of 
the party, the exercise of rights of citizenship, marriage and the acquisi- 
tion of real estate; but the intention may be gathered from other facts. 
2. The enrollment will be made by the enrolling officers of the State, if 
the Governor thereof will permit them to act under the orders of the 
Commandant of Conscripts, and application will be made by the said 10 
commandants for such permission. If it be declined, the Commandant 
will report the fact to the Adjutant and Inspector General, and ask for 
the employment of confederate officers for the purpose of making enroll- 
ments. If the Governor consent, hut the enrolling officers of the state 
be found unable or unwilling to discharge their duty efficiently, the like 
application will be made to the Adjutant and Inspector General; and in 
such event, a commissioned officer for each congressional district, and a 
non-commissioned officer or private for each county, city, town, district 
or parish, will be assigned to such duty. 
In making such assignment, officers and men disabled by wounds from 
active duty in the field, and acquainted in the localities in which they are 
required to serve, will, as far as practicable,, be selected. The commis- 
sioned officer in each district will superintend the enrollments and collec- 
tion of conscripts therein. Non-commissioned officers and privates, 
while so employed, will be allowed pay as extra duty men. The en- 
rolling officers of the states, if employed, will be paid the compensation 
allowed by the State laws for similar services. 
The Commanding Generals of armies in the field will order such com- 
missioned officers, non-commissioned officers and privates as they think 
qualified to be enrolling officers or drill officers, and who are unfit for 
active service in the field, to report to the Commandant of Conscripts in 
their respective States, who will order such of them to duty as may be 
required, and report the remainder by letter to the Commanding General, 
as not needed for such service. 
3. Enrollments for particular regiments, squadrons, battalions and 
companies in service on the 16th of April 1862, may be made by officers 
detailed for the purpose by the Commanding General of a department or 
an army in the field; but such officers must report to the Commandant 
of Conscripts in their respective States, receive instructions from him, 
and assemble their conscripts at such point as he may designate. Con- 
scripts enrolled without reporting to such commandant, will be deemed 
to be enrolled for general service, and shall at any time be transferred, on 
their own application, or on the application of commandants of corps 
needing conscripts, to such corps. 
V’. Exemptions. 
The Exemption Act will be construed prospectively, and does not 
authorize the discharge of any one enrolled, or in service prior to the 
11th day of October 1862. VI. Bodily and Mental Infirmity. 
1. Questions of bodily and mental incapacity will be decided by Sur- 
'geons employed for the purpose, by virtue of the Act of Congress ap- 
proved on the 11th of October 1862. 
Three Surgeons in each congressional district will be recommended 
by the Commandants of Conscripts to the Adjutant and Inspector Gene- 
ral for employment, under the foregoing act; and the said commandants 
will establish in each county, city, parish or district a place of rendez- 
vous for the examination of conscripts enrolled therein. 
2. The three Surgeons employed in each congressional district will 
constitute a Board of Examination for the district; and one or more of 
them may act at any place of rendezvous therein. They shall fix days 
for the examination of conscripts in each county, city, parish or district, 
and give at least ten days’ notice thereof, by publication in one or more 
newspapers circulating in the congressional district, and by notice posted 
at the principal places of public resort. 
3. The enrolling officer for the county, city, parish or district shall 
attend at such examinations, and enroll and send to the camp of instruc- 
tion such persons as are examined and found by the Surgeon to be capa- 
ble of bearing arms. The standard of bodily capacity shall be that estab- 
lished by General Order, No. 58, modified by the omission of the 3d 
paragraph, which authorized the enrollment of persons not equal to all 
military duty. No person will be enrolled as a conscript, who is not 
capable of bearing arms. 
4. Persons deemed incapable of bearing arms shall be reported by the 
Examining Surgeon to the Board of Examination, who shall determine 
the questions of exemption, and grant certificates thereof. The certifi- 
cates shall specify whether the incapacity is temporary or permanent; 
and if permanent, the party shall be exempt from future examination, 
unless specially ordered by the board. So sooj| as the Examining Board 
shall be organized in any congressional district, and shall enter upon the 
discharge of their duties, no other mode of examination for persons in 
that district will be pursued; and the decision of the Examining Board 
will be deemed final. 
5. The fact that a person has been discharged from service for phy- 
sical disability or other cause, does not of itself exempt from enrollment 
as a conscript. 12 
6. If any enrolled person is nnable to attend at the rendezvous on 
account of sickness, he will send to the Examining Surgeon a certificate 
specifying the cause of absence, and its probable duration, from some 
respectable physician resident in the county, city, parish or district in' 
which the rendezvous is situated. The Examining Surgeon shall send 
the certificate to the Commandant of the nearest Camp of Instruction; 
and if the person mentioned therein shall not report himself for examina- 
tion at the said camp within a reasonable period, or send to the Com- 
mandant of the Camp a renewal of the certificate, showing his continued 
disability, he shall be deemed absent without leave. 
7. A compensation of $ 4 per diem, while actually employed, will be 
allowed to each of the Examining Surgeons, and will be paid on their 
certified account by the Quartermaster of the nearest Camp of Instruction. 
VII. Friends, Dunkards, Nazarcnes and Mennonites. 
All persons of the above denominations, in regular membership therein 
on the 11th day of October 1862, shall bo exempt from enrollment, on 
furnishing a substitute, or on presenting to the enrolling officer a receipt 
from a bonded Quartermaster for the tax of five hundred dollars imposed 
by Act of Congress, and an affidavit by the Bishop, Presiding Elder, or 
other officer whose duty it is to preserve the records of membership in 
the denomination to which the party belongs, setting forth distinctly the 
fact that the party on the 11th day of October 1862 was in regular mem- 
bership with such denomination. The affidavit must be taken and cer- 
tified by a Justice of the Peace, or other officer appointed by the law of 
his State to administer oaths; and his authority to administer oaths must 
be certified by the Clerk of a court of record, under the seal of the court. 
All Assistant Quartermasters, to whom the said tax is tendered, will 
receive and receipt for it, and pay the same into the Treasury of the 
Confederate States, without unreasonable delay. The enrolling officer 
will receive the receipt and forward it to the Commandant of Conscripts, 
by whom it will be forwarded to the Quartermaster General, who will 
charge the Assistant Quartermaster with the amount received by him. 
VIII. Provision against Extortion. 
1. When application for exemption is made by any shoemaker, tanner, 
blacksmith, wagonmaker, miller, mill engineer or millwright, not in the 
employment of any company or establishment, but working for himself, 
the party seeking exemption shall state in writing, under oath, that he is 13 
skilled and actually employed in his said trade; that he is habitually en- 
gaged in working for the public; that the products of his labor, while 
exempt from military service, shall not be sold, exchanged or bartered for 
a price exceeding the cost of production and seventy-five per cent, profit 
thereon; and that he will not, by any arrangement, shift or contrivance, 
evade-the law, or receive a greater price or reward than it allows. 
2. Where application is made to exempt superintendents and opera- 
tives in wool and cotton factories and paper mills, and superintendents 
and managers of wool carding machines, shoemakers, tanners, black- 
smiths, wagonmakers, millers, mill engineers or millwrights, networking 
for themselves, but in the employment of some company or establish- 
ment, the president or some director, if the company be incorporated, if 
not, the proprietor of the business, or if there be a firm, some partner 
therein, shall make oath in writing that the said superintendents, opera- 
tives, managers or mechanics, as the case may be, are skilled and actually 
employed in their said vocations; that they are habitually working for 
the public; that they are absolutely necessary for the successful prosecu- 
tion of the business of the concern; that the products thereof shall not 
be sold, or exchanged, or bartered, during the said exemption, for a price 
exceeding the cost of production and seventy-five per cent, profit thereon; 
that no shift, contrivance or arrangement shall be made to evade the law, 
or to secure a larger return or profit than it allows ; and that exemption 
is not sought for a larger number of persons than is absolutely necessary 
for the successful prosecution of the business of the concern. 
3. The foregoing affidavits shall be made before some Justice of the 
Peace or other person authorized by law to administer oaths, and if such 
Justice or other person be not personally known to the enrolling officer 
to be what he purports to be, his official character and his right to ad- 
minister oaths must be certified by the Clerk of some court of record, 
under the seal of his court. 
The affidavits shall be returned to the Commandant of Conscripts, and 
exemptions shall be granted by the enrolling officer. If, however, he 
suspect false swearing or mistake, he shall refuse the exemption, and 
refer the case, after first enrolling the names of the parties in question, to 
the Commandant of Conscripts, who shall dispose of it. If at any time 
the enrolling officer have cause to suspect false swearing or mistake in the 
foregoing affidavits, he shall report the fact to the Commandant of Con- 
scripts, and if the said commandant be satisfied after duo investigation 
that a larger number of persons is designedly employed than is neces- 14 
sary, or that a larger profit than the law allows is received either directly 
or indirectly, he shall order the enrollment of the parties exempted upon 
the said affidavits. 
IX. Details. 
Citizen employees and mechanics who are employed in establishments 
of the government, or by contractors with the government in the manu- 
facture of arms, ordnance, ordnance stores, and other munitions of war, 
saddles, harness and army supplies, will be enrolled and returned to 
their work: provided the Chief of the Ordnance Bureau, or some ord- 
nance officer authorized by him for the purpose, shall certify that the 
number of operatives, required by the officer in charge of such estab- 
lishment, or by such contractor for government work, is reasonable, 
and not excessive. Such certificate will be presented to the enrolling 
officer, who will thereupon make the detail of the men specified for a 
period not exceeding sixty days, and return the certificate to the Com- 
mandant of Conscripts. At the expiration of such detail, the officer in 
charge of the government shop, or the contractor, in whose employment 
said conscripts are, shall cause said certificate to be renewed, or return 
the conscripts to the nearest camp of instruction. If the certificate be 
not renewed, or the conscripts be not returned, no other detail shall be 
granted to such establishment or contractor. In all cases of details for 
contractors, the party requesting the detail shall make affidavit that the 
persons so detailed will not be employed on any other than government 
work, which affidavit shall be returned to the Commandant of Con- 
scripts ; and if it be found that at any time such detailed conscripts are 
employed by said contractors upon work for private individuals, the de- 
tail shall be canceled by the Commandant of Conscripts. 
Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 50, current series, is hereby revoked- 
X. To whom Applications for Exemption must he Addressed. 
Applications for exemption must, in all cases, be made to the Enrolling 
Officer, from whose decision an appeal may be taken to the Commandant 
of Conscripts. The Department will not consider the application until 
it has been referred by the latter officer. 
XI. Substitutes. 
1. When a person claims exemption on the ground that he has put a 
substitute in service, he must exhibit to the enrolling officer a discharge 
from some company, signed by the commanding officer of the regiment 15 
or command to which the said company belongs, or then belonged (see 
General Order No. 26), or an exemption signed by the Commandant of 
Conscripts. And if the said discharge or exemption do not show that it 
was granted in consideration of a substitute having been furnished, such 
fact must be certified in writing by the commanding officer of the regi- 
ment or command to which the company belongs, or by the Comman- 
dant of Conscripts, as the case may be. 
But in all cases arising within thirty days from the date of this Order, 
the enrolling officer may grant the exemption, upon satisfactory proof 
that the party furnished a substitute, who was actually received into the 
service of the Confederate States for three years or the war, and the sub- 
stitute is not liable to military service. Such exemption may at any time 
be canceled, if fraud or mistake be discovered. 
2. Paragraph 11, General Order No. 29, current series, is hereby re- 
voked. No person under eighteen years of age, or not domiciled in the 
Confederate States, or not of good moral character, or who is liable under 
the existing order to enrollment as a conscript, shall be received as a 
substitute. 
And in all cases in which a substitute becomes subject to military ser- 
vice, the exemption of the principal, by reason of the substitution, shall 
expire. 
Any person subject to enrollment, who desires to furnish a substitute, 
may, at any time before enrollment, or before he is assigned to a com- 
pany and sent from the Camp of Instruction, present a substitute at such 
camp. And if the substitute be capable of bearing arms, and be of good 
moral character, and not within the prohibited classes, he shall be re- 
ceived, and the principal shall be exempt from military service. 
XII. Volunteering. 
All persons liable to conscription may, before enrollment, volunteer in 
companies in service on the 16th of April 1862. But after enrollment, 
they cannot volunteer, nor can they at any time volunteer in companies 
received into service since the 16th of April 1862. 
XIII. Miscellaneous. 
1. All impressments of men by Regimental, Battalion or Company 
Commanders, under any pretence whatever, are prohibited, it being the 
design of the Department to supply the army exclusively through the 
officers appointed by this Act. 16 
2. All the laws and regulations applicable to deserters shall be applied 
to such conscripts as fail to repair to the place of rendezvous for enroll- 
ment, or who shall desert after enrollment. 
3. All the agencies employed for the apprehension and confinement of 
deserters, and their transportation to the commands of their respective 
commanders, shall he applicable to persons liable to duty as conscripts 
who shall fail to repair to the place of rendezvous after the publication 
of the call. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.