GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERALâS OFFICE, August 29, 1864
No. 70. Richmond, August 29, 1864.
I. In consequence of the addition of fifty artillery officers for ordnance duty by act of Congress, approved June 10, 1864, the distribution of grades announced in General Orders, No. 110, 1863, is changed to the following: Five lieutenant-colonels, ten majors, eighty-five captains, sixty first lieutenants, and forty second lieutenants.
II. These officers, together with such officers of the regular Confederate Army and field officers of the provisional artillery as are placed on ordnance duty by the Secretary of War, will alone, hereafter, constitute the corps of officers for ordnance duty. All other officers on ordnance duty are only incidentally ordnance officers, and are liable to be replaced by the class of officers above enumerated.
II. All officers on ordnance duty will, without delay, report by letter to the Chief of Ordnance at Richmond, stating, first, their rank; second, date of commission; third, arm of service; fourth, the State to which they belong; fifth, date of assignment to ordnance duty; sixth, the authority by which assigned, furnishing date, and, if possible, copy of order of assignment. Officers of the Regular Army will
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report both their regular and provisional commissions or commissions conferring temporary rank.
IV. Appointments in the corps of artillery officers for ordnance duty established by acts of Congress approved April 21, 1862, September 16, 1862, and June 10, 1864, will be made to the grade of second lieutenants after the usual examinations. Candidates examined prior to the passage of act approved June 10, 1864, may, however, on recommendation, be appointed to grades for which they were recommended and in which they have been serving under General Orders, No. 12, 1863.
V. The Government foundry, blacksmith shops, and laboratory of the Ordnance Department at Salisbury, N. C., will hereafter be known as the ‘‘Salisbury Arsenal.”
Ss. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.