C. B. Duffield, March 31, 1864

March 31, 1864.

No. 13. Richmond, Va., March 31, 1864.

Commandants of conscripts will forthwith proceed, in compliance with General Orders, No. 33, Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, current series, rapidly to enroll all persons between the ages of seventeen and eighteen and forty-five and fifty years, allowing them until the 1st day of May next to join any company for local defense which has been formed under General Orders, No. 86, Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, last series, for the war, or any other company for local defense which has been accepted into the service and which by the terms of its enlistment is liable to service anywhere within the State, or to form themselves into voluntary organizations of companies, battalions, or regiments, and elect their own company officers in conformity with existing law, as provided in the sixth section of the act of Congress to organize forces to serve during the war, published in General Orders, No. 26, Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, current series. Those who do not before the Ist day of May next

*See General Orders, No. 31, March 10, p. 208. 17 RB R—SERIES IV, VOL IIt

volunteer or organize themselves into companies will be formed into companies, battalions, and regiments under regulations to be prescribed therefor.

By command of Col. John 8. Preston, superintendent:

Assistant Adjutant-General.