The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-09
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

ADJT AND INSPECTOR GDNERAEs OFFICE. [
COLUMBIA, Oct. 5, 1868.
GENERAL ORDERS NO. 81.
IN PURSUANCE OF AN ACT OF. THE
- General Assembly entitled Gan Act to
provide for volunteer companies of Mounted In
tantry and for other purposes" ratified on the
S0th OF September, 1868, volunteer companies
of Mounted Infantry will. be accepted for State
service, to consist of not less than sixty-four
(G4) and not moro than GOO) men, exclusive
of commissioned officers. Persons of any age,
provided they arc able-bodicd, will be allowed
to volunteer in companies that accepted,
will not be enrolled for active service under
paragraph VII of this order. If "a sufficient
number of said companies arc offered and &C
cepted, they will be organized into battalions
and Regiments.
H. An lcrsonis liable to enrolment under
the Act referred to, viz: "All white male per-
sons in this State between the ages of eighteen
furnished substitutes in Confederate service
resident aliens, and other persons who have
avoided Confederate conscription by reason of
any civil employment, contract or engagement
and excluding all who have been declared cx
empt from actual military service beyond the
limits Of the Districts in which they reside, by
an Act of the General Assembly, ratified on
the 9th day of February, 1868" are hereby re-
quired to report their names and ages to the
commanding officers of their respective boat
companies or before the day on which their
respective regiments arc hereinafter ordered to
assemble
| III. In addition to the enrolment Of the
persons mentioned fl the proceeding paragraph
of this order, for the purpose of obtaining an
accurate return of the arms-bearing population
of the State and their ages, all white males be-
| tween the ages of sixteen and eighteen and
forty five and sixty are required to he enrolled
| rs hereinafter directed.
Nv. For the purpose of securing said enroll
mcnt asespecdily as possible, the Militia Rcgi-
ment of the State, embracing all persons be-
tween the ages above stated between sixteen
and sixty years are ordered to assembly at
| their usual places of parade ut the times here
matter stated.
V. Before the day appointed fer the parade
OF the regiments, the commanding officers of
beat companies, the officer at home highest in
rank, will prepare lists of the names of persons
within their respective beats directed to en-
rolled, designating on the lists the ages of each
person, those having substitutes in Confederate
service, and resident aliens, and if exemption
from service be claimed, stating the ground on
which it is claimed
vi. On the day on which the regiments
shall parade, the commanding officers of com
panies will return said lists to the commanding
officers ofthe respective regiments, who will
return the same to the Ad-de- e-camp of his En-
ceency the Governor, who will be in attend
ance with the Enrolling Officer appointed for
the District, to receive and verify said returns,
and to note and report all persons who may
make default in attending said paradcs for trial
by court martial.
VII. From the effective men between the
ages of eighteen and forty five years, enrolled
as aforesaid, companies, one or more ofartille-
ry] battahons and regiments, will be organized
by the Governor and commanders Chief,
the commissioned officers, company and field,
to be elected by the men at such times, places
| and in such manner as he may direct.
VIII. Two or more of the companies will be
accepted as cavalry and armed as such and
| one company of artillery with battery of four
pieces will be organized, to consist of not less
than eighty nor more than one hundred men,
| exclusive of commissioned officers.
TX. The troops thus raised fly volunteering
or compulsory levy will "be called out at the
discretion of the Governor to "repel actual or
threatened raids of the enemy within this
State" and " will be kept in the field so long
as he may deem it necessary for the public
safety" and will "be discharged from actual
service whenever in his judgement the actual
necessity for such service has ceased" the Or
ganizaton, however, not to be dissolved by be-
ing Withdrawn from the field.