CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT, June 18, 1864

Richmond, Va., June 18, 1864.

General HOWELL CoBB, Macon, Ga.:

Governor Brown’s exemption must be restricted to the terms of the law, which requires a certificate of the necessity of State officers only. See it.

J. A. SEDDON, Secretary of War.

CONFEDERATE AUTHORITIES. 503

GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT, AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, No. 55. Richmond, June 20, 1864.

I. Under the act of Congress entitled an act to organize military courts, &c., approved June 14, 1864 (General Orders, No. 53—No. 22), military courts will, as soon as practicable, select and report to this office, for assignment as clerks and marshals of those courts, commissioned and non-commissioned officers and privates unable to perform duty in the field. With the report will be forwarded the evidence of the disability of the persons recommended.

II. Company, regimental, brigade, and division commanders will report to the general commanding the army or department any commissioned, non-commissioned officer or private in the cavalry service who misbehaves before the enemy, or who wastes or appropriates to his own use private property or who does violence to any citizen.

The general commanding will take action (under General Orders, No. 53—No. 26) upon the report, and forward his order in each ease, with a statement of the facts, for the information of the Department.

5S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.