Adjutant and Inspector General’s Offich, 
Richmond, June 12, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, \ 
No. 82. $ 
The second section of the act entitled an act to organize Partizan 
Rangers, provides that such Partizan Rangers, after being regularly re- 
ceived into service, shall be entitled to the same pay, rations and quarters, 
during their term of service, and bo subject to the same regulations as 
other soldiers. The irregularities reported to this department as having 
been committed by such corps, renders it proper that these corps shall bo 
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 regiments, with 
the view to bringing them under the same regulations as other soldiers, 
in reference to their discipline, position and movements; and the same 
officers will recommend any further measures for their organization as an 
integral portion of their commands, as will in their opinion promote their 
efficiency and the interest of the service. The General of the depart- 
ment will recommend field officers- for the organizations that may be 
made, to be submitted for the consideration of the President. Such par- 
tizan corps as arc serving within the enemy’s lines, are for the present 
excepted from this qjrdcr. 
order. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
S. COOPER,