Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-04-30
Gen. Holmes, General Order.


We clip from the Wilmington Journal the fol-
lowing General Order of Gen. Holmes in relation to
the new military bill, known as the CONSUMPTION
law, recently passed by Congess
HEAD QUARTERS, DEPT OF NORTH CARoL1SA,7
GoLDsBoRo', April 10th, 1852.
GENERAL ORDERS No. 10.
The following main features of an act just passed
by the Congress, and approved by the President of
the Confederate States are published for the nfor-
nation and government Of al! concerned:
All white males citizens Of the Confederate States
between the ages of eighteen and thirty-fve years,
who are not legally exempt from military duty, are
placed in the military service of the Confederacy
All twelve months volunteers within those ages
are to two years from the expiration Of their
original term of enlistment and all twelve months
volunteers under eighteen and thirty five years
of age will remain in service ninety days in addition
to their original term, unless their places are sooner
supplied by recruits The twelve months volun-
teers who have not received bounty or furoughs are
to have them-the furloughs to be granted in such
numbers and at such times as the Secretary of War
may deem compatible with the public service. Re.
enllstments for the purpose of changing from one
regiment battalion or company to another unless
already perfected by actual transfer are in effect
cancelled and all authorities to raise new corps are
vacated unless within thirty days from the passage
of the act the organization of the same is complete
IUt pS thc requisite uumOer OF men
recruited from persons not in service. Companies
of Infantry will have one hundred and twenty-five
men of field Artillery one hundred and fifty and
Of Cavalry eighty enlisted men.
All corps of twelve months volunteers shall have
the right within forty days, day to he fixed by
their Brigade commander to elect all the officers
which they had right heretofore to elect and such
officers will be commissioned by the President. All
white males between the ages ofeighteen and thirty
five years, subject to military duty and not now in
service are to be enrolled mustered in, and sent to
the old regiments. All discharges from expiration
of term of service and transfers of rc.ensted men
will be Immediately stopped.
The General Commanding the Department hopes
that all will yield cheerful obedience to this law
so clearly dictated by the necessities of the coun-
try. At the very crisis of our struggle, with the
vast armies OF the enemy threatening to overrun
the valley of the Mississippi, and pressing to the
gates of the Capital the Chief Magistrate and Con-
gress of the Confederacy respond to the unanimous
voice of the country and insist that her trained SOL
diers shall not forsake her until the battle is fought
and independence won
Is there brave and true man in this army who
will not rally to the side of his comrades already
enlisted for the war?
The General Commanding feels that that spirit of
devotion and selfsacrice which has nerved the cit
zen soldier amid the prvations of an inactive winter
campaign will not be wanting now upon the eve Of
decisive battles. $50,
Commanders of Brigades and detached corps are
charged with the execution of the foregoing act as
far it relates to the troops of their commands.
BY command of ..-..
Major. General T. H. HOLMES
(SigneD ARCHER ANDERSON, A. A. G.