The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 4, Volume 3. Page: 3
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CONFEDERATE AUTHORITIES.
tion of these regulations, and the eleventh section of the act furnished
a remedy to every citizen aggrieved. In the report from this Depart-
ment which has been submitted to Congress, a copy of which is sent
to Your Excellency with this letter, you will find a statement of the
difficulties under which the Government labors in providing for the
subsistence of the Army, and how much of the evils complained of is
the result of inexorable necessity.* The Department has heretofore,
and will in the future exert itself to confine these evils within the
exact limits of that necessity.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War.
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE,
No. 2. Richmond, January 5, 1864.
For the information of all concerned, and to correct prevalent mis-
apprehension, it is announced that there exists no mandatory provis-
ion of law securing to enrolled conscripts the right to choose in what
company or regiment they will serve. They cannot be assigned to
companies from other States, and in general their wishes are to be
consulted as to the choice of companies, where no considerations for
the good of the service intervene to prevent compliance. Assign-
ments once made by commandants of conscripts in good faith, in the
exercise of their discretion, will not be considered as fit subjects for
complaints.
By order:
S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
AN ACT to continue in force an act entitled "An act to provide for the compen-
sation of certain persons therein named," approved May the first, eighteen
hundred and sixty-three.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That
the act entitled "An act to provide for the compensation of certain
persons therein named, " approved May the first, eighteen hundred
and sixty-three, which, by its own limitation, would expire on the
first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be, and the same
is hereby, continued in force until the first of January, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-five.
Approved January 6, 1864.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT OF ALABAMA,
Montgomery, January 6, 1864.
Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War:
SIR: Unless the planting interest in the South can be carried on
successfully the armies of the Confederacy cannot be supported.
Without iron the planting interests cannot be profitably carried on.
* See Vol. II, this series, p. 990.3
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