Order
Unknown, January 7, 1864
SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE,
January 7, 1864.
No. 5. J January 7, 1864.
XV. Paragraph XVIII, Special Orders, No. 298, and paragraph XVIII, Special Orders, No. 300, Adjutant and Inspector General’s
Office, December 1 [16 and 18], 1863, are amended so as to retain temporarily on duty in the conscript service the officers and men hitherto under the orders of Brigadier-General Pillow in the States of Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi who have not already been relieved.* They will receive orders from Col. John 8. Preston, chief of Bureau of Conscription.
XVI. Brigadier-General Pillow is allowed such time as may be necessary to adjust the unsettled matters pertaining to his late duties before reporting to the general commanding the Army of Tennessee.
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Indian Territory, 1861. Summary: Confederate Special Orders amend prior directives to temporarily retain officers and men under Brigadier-General Pillow's command in Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi for conscription service under Colonel Preston.
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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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