GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERALâS OFFICE, March 30, 1865
No. 18. Richmond, Va., March 30, 1865.
I. Paragraph II, General Orders, No. 6, current series, is hereby revoked, and Brig. Gen. Daniel Ruggles, Provisional Army,-C. $., is constituted Commissary-General of Prisoners, and will at once enter upon his duties as designated in paragraphs I, II, and III, General Orders, No. 84, of 1864.
II. Paragraph IX, General Orders, No. 10, current series, is amended so as to read:
Persons arriving at the age of eighteen years, and all others in the reserve forces, not disabled for active duty, who are within the conbSection 6 repealed by amendatory act, approved March 17, 1865.
script ages, will be turned over to enrolling officers for assignment to infantry companies in the general service. âThe fact of their holding commissions does not preclude the operations of this order.
Generals of reserves and inspectors are required to enforce this order.
III. Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 83, of 1864, is amended so to embrace commissioned officers within its provisions.
IV. It having been represented to the Department that officers and persons authorized to raise local organizations and companies within the enemyâs lines are abusing their authority by receiving deserters into their companies and giving encouragement to desertion in order to fill up their commands, the attention of officers and soldiers is therefore especially directed to the following Articles of War, to wit:
ART, 22. No non-commissioned officer or soldier shall enlist himself in any other regiment, troop, CRE Ael ret) without a regular Seton be from the regiment, troop, or company in which he last served, on the penalty of being reputed a deserter and suffering accordingly. And in case any officer shall knowingly receive and entertain such non-commissioned officer or soldier, or shall not, after his being discovered to be a deserter, immediately confine him and give notice thereof to the corps in which he last served, the said officer shall by a court-martial be cashiered.
ART. 23. Any officer or soldier who shall be convicted of having advised or persuaded any officer or soldier to desert the service of the Confederate States,
shall suffer death or such other punishment as shall be inflicted upon him by the sentence of a court-martial.
All persons violating these articles will be promptly arrested and brought to trial by court-martial, and, if the practice referred to is not at once discontinued, authorities to raise such commands will be summarily revoked.
By order: S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General. CIRCULAR LETTER. CONSCRIPT OFFICE,
Richmond, Va., March $1, 1865. âEnrolling officers are hereby instructed not to interfere with parties detailed to the Navy Department whose details expire on or about the 1st of April, as it is impracticable on the part of said Department to apply immediately for renewals. Application for renewal will, however, be made, and until further orders are issued the above-named parties will remain unmolested. By order of Lieut. Col. J. C. Shields, commandant: J. H. BINFORD, Lieutenant and Adjutant.
_ [Aprix 1, 1865.âFor Davis to Lee, in relation to measures for raisIng negro troops, see Series I, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 1370. ]