Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-04-05
ADJ'r AND INsP'R GENERALS OFFICE J
RICHMOND, Va, March II, 1865. {

General Orders, No 1O]
l. The attention of officers and soldiers is again
called to the Regulations reiterated in General
Orders, No. 8, of 1883, and Paragraph l, General
Orders, NO. 70, OF 1864, from this Office respect
ing military correspondence. Communications from
the army on official business addressed to CIVILIANS
at the seat OF government have become so freonent
as seriously to interfere with the efficient enndnct
OF the several hureauX of the War DEPARTMENT -
Officers and soldiers who violate orders in this 70.
spect will be promptly placed in arrest and 5ror ,ht
to trial. o.
II. A moderate price will be paid by the Ord
nance ana Quartermasters Departments for such
stores and animals as deserters, who clearly estab-
Isn tne TACT OF their desertion may bring with
them into our lines.
Paragraph VIII, General Orders, No. a., 1854, Is
published for the information of the army
An Act supplemental to an act entitled b" An oct
to organize forces to serue during the war."
The Congress Of the Confederate States of Amer.
fea do enact That nothing in said recited act CON-
tanned shalt be construed to discharge from militia
ry service persons over the age of 45 or under IS
years, who are now in the army of the Confederate
States
Approved, Feb. II, 1864.
Injunction of secresy was removed from this act
by resolution of the House of Representatives.
passed January, 1865.
w. AU non-commissioned officers and privates
detailed because of disability will be examined
| monthly, when those found fit for field duty will
be Immediately turned over to the Commandant Of
the Post, at which they were employed, to be re-
| turned to their commands.
This is not intended to apply to those "retired"
under the act to provide an Invalid Corps.
" Conscripts assigned to light duty will be ex-
amined every three months, when those found equal
to field duty will be turned over to the enrolling a.
thorities for assignment to command in the field.
vi. In places where Hospital Medical Boards
are located they will make the examination; at
other places they will be made by conscript boards.
VII Monthly reports of all men found fit for
field duty, and sent in accordance with these in.
structions to the feld, will be transmitted by the
boards through the Surgeon General to the Adu-
tant and Inspector General.
VIII. Notices of all detailed soldiers returned to
duty with their commands will be forwarded by the
Medical Board to company commanders.
TX. The examination referred to in Paragraphs
WV, vi, of this order, will be made by the med
ical boards at the posts where the are employ
ed. Their failure to make such examinations will
| be reported by the post commanders to the Adju-
| tant and Inspector General.
X. Where soldiers in hospitals are transferred
to other hospitals, surgeons in charge will pu: them
in charge of the officer Of the train guard Of the
railroad upon which they are sent, who will be re-
sponsible for their delivery to the officer of the
train guard of the next connecting railroad route,
or to the surgeon in charge of the hospital to which
| they are transferred.
XII Persons arriving at the age of 10 years Of
age and all others in the Reserve forces not dis.
abled for active duty, who are within the conscript
age, will be turned to enrolling officers for as
slgnment to companies in the general service. The
fact of their holding commissions does not preclude
the operation of this order. Generals of Reserves
and Inspectors are required to enforce this order.
| XII. Paragraph l, General Orders No. 81, (1S64,
| is hereby revoked.
+ By order S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General.