Adjutant and Inspector General’s Oppice, 
GENERAL ORDERS, ( 
No. 96. 5 
Richmond, July 8, 186;?. 
1. Soldiers not doomed subjects for discharge under paragraph IV, 
General Orders, No. 69, current series, because of their being fit for ser- 
vice in the staff departments of the army, will be recommended by the 
Board of Examiners to the General commanding the department or army, 
for detail in the Medical Department, as nurses, guards, &c., to relieve, 
as far as practicable, able bodied soldiers fit for duty in the field; or if 
specially tit for duty in another staff department, they will be recom- 
mended for detail in such department. 
11. Soldiers detailed under these provisions will, when fit for field duty, 
fee relieved and sent to their commands. 
111. 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 officers or furloughs to men. 
They can only certify to tin* disability, and recommend such extensions. 
IV. Commutation for rations to men upon furlough, will not be paid 
iX3xit.il they rejoin their commands. 
V. Rations will be issued to discharged men delayed at way hospitals. 
order. 
Adjutant arid Inspector General. 
S. COOPER,