Order
Unknown, January 4, 1864
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERALâS OFFICE,
January 4, 1864.
No. 1. Richmond, January 4, 1864.
I. If immediately after the death of an officer there be no family connection or legal representative present to whom the officer charged by the Ninety-fourth Article of War with securing his effects may deliver them, he will turn them over, under the provisions of paragraph III, General Orders, No. 67, 1863, to the quartermaster of the regiment or post, as the circumstances may indicate to be proper.
II. Surgeons or assistant surgeons in charge of hospitals will, upon the death of a soldier in hospital, furnish the Second Auditor of the Treasury a statement from their rolls showing the last payment preceding his death made to such soldier.
S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Indian Territory, 1861. Summary: The 1864 Confederate General Orders direct officers to secure deceased soldiers' effects and require hospital surgeons to report final payments to the Treasury following a soldier's death.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 3
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