Adjutant and Inspector General’s Opficb, 
Richmond, July 20, 1863. 
GENERAL ORDERS, } 
No. 98. \ 
r. All white male residents of the Confederate States, between the 
ages of eighteen and forty-five, not exefnpted by law, and not already in 
the service, will be enrolled. Persons liable to enrollment may be en- 
rolled wherever they may be found. 
11. The Ist paragraph of General Orders, No. Sf!, current series, is so 
amended as to road as follows : 
“ Companies, battalions and regiments composed of persons not within 
the age of conscription (eighteen and forty-five), will be accepted as 
volunteers, throughout the Confederacy, under the act of August 21st, 
1861, No. 229, for local defence and special service.” Those persons be- 
longing to such organizations, who are of conscript age, and neither ex- 
empted by law nor already in the service, will be discharged and reported 
to the bureau of conscription for enrollment. 
111. The following regulation will be in addition to those heretofore 
published in regard to substitutes: 
Hereafter every person furnishing a substitute in accordance with exist- 
ing regulations, shall become liable to and be immediately enrolled for 
military duty, upon the loss of the services of the substitute furnished 
by him, from any cause other than the casualties of war. 
order. 
Adjutant, and Inspector General, 
S. COOPER,