The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 4, Volume 3. Page: 34
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
instruction to some safe and convenient point in the neighborhood of
Lieutenant-General Longstreet's army. It is not advisable for you
to select a station immediately within or contiguous to the lines. On
reaching your station you will immediately proceed to active oper-
ations in enrolling conscripts and arresting deserters. Until further
orders you will have authority to enroll Tennessee and Kentucky
conscripts. You will apply directly to Lieutenant-General Long-
street for such supporting force as you may deem necessary, and
report the same to this Bureau. You will also apply to General Long-
street for the use of such officers as you may think needful as enroll-
ing officers, asking him for their temporary assignment. Your
requisitions will be filled as early as practicable.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
THOMAS PINCKNEY,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
CIRCULAR CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,
WAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF CONSCRIPTION,
No. 2. Richmond, Va., January 18, 1864.
In addition to the copy of special orders detailing disabled officers
and soldiers, furnished for the information of the Bureau, comman-
dants will also forward to the Bureau a copy for reference to the com-
manding officer of the command to which such officers or soldiers
belong.
From the omission to forward such copies additional labor is
imposed on the Bureau, which its clerical force is insufficient to exe-
cute and which properly belongs to the office from which the order is
issued.
By command of Col. John S. Preston, superintendent:
C. B. DUFFIELD,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
(To Commandants of Conscripts.)
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT,
Richmond, Va., January 18, 1864.
His Excellency THOMAS-H. WATTS,
Governor of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala.:
SIR: Your letter of the 6th instant, earnestly requesting that Gov-
ernment iron contractors in Alabama be authorized to sell to planters
some of their iron to make and repair agricultural implements, was
referred to the chief of the Niter and Mining Bureau for considera-
tion and remarks. I have the honor to invite your attention to the
following copy of his reply:
The Government supplies in Alabama will permit the diversion of a consider-
able quantity of cast iron for agricultural purposes, but very little rolled iron.
The loss of the Tennessee rolling-mills and the virtual suspension of the Etowah
mills have thrown all the requisitions from the Army of Tennessee for wagon-
tire and horseshoe iron upon the two Alabama mills controlled by the Bureau.
These requisitions can be met with great difficulty, and only by drawing largely
upon the Navy. Major Hunt has been instructed to call upon the Governor of
Alabama, explain the poverty of our resources, and to urge a concert action from
the State authorities in starting additional rolling-mills.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War.34
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