Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
Richmond, September 29, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, ) 
No. 127. $ 
In >iew of the importance of pressing the homo 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 bo returned to 
their work, and all facilities for resuming operations will be 
extended by military officers. 
By order. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
S. COOPER,