WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
GENERAL ORDERS, ) 
N0.*53. J 
Richmond, July 31, 1862. 
I. Persons who are liable to conscription under the act of April 16, 
1862, will not he taken to serve as partisan rangers. Such as may be 
engaged for that branch of service, must be over thirty-five years of age. 
11. Only aides do camp are to be considered as the personal stall’ of 
general officers; all other general staff officers assigned to the commands 
o: general officers, or who may Ix 3 attached by assignment to their re- 
spective head quarters, will, be regarded as forming a part of their entire 
commands; and any change of commanding officer in such commands, 
will not imply a change in the assignment of the general staff officers. 
111. Paragraph I, General Orders No. 44, current series, is hereby 
revoked, and all paroled prisoners, whose regiments are in the East, will 
report at Richmond, Virginia, and those whose Regiments are in the 
West, at Vicksburg, Mississippi. 
IV. All seizures and impressments of any description of property 
whatever, and especially of arms and ordnance stores belonging to the 
States of the Confederacy, are hereby prohibited, and officers of the C. 
S. army arc enjoined to abstain carefully from such seizures and impress- 
ments ; and in case they are made by mistake, such officers are ordered 
to make prompt restitution. 
JBy command of the Secretary of War 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.