Records Related to Augusta County Regiments



From: C. B. DUFFIELD, Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
April 21, 1864.

Summary:
This April, 1864, Confederate War Department Circular establishes guidelines for conscription of men claiming to be Maryland citizens. The War Department asks that any in the Confederacy be sent to report at Camp Maryland, Staunton, VA.


Richmond, Va.,

April 21, 1864.

Commandants are instructed to investigate with special care the cases of all persons claiming to be citizens of Maryland. Unless the parties can prove beyond all reasonable doubt that they are not "residents of the Confederate States," they will be assigned to the Army in accordance with existing regulations for the disposition of conscripts.

In case such proof is given the parties will be forthwith reported to this Bureau, with descriptive lists, and notified that they will be expected to report in person either to Maj.-Gen. Elzey, at Staunton, or Col. Bradley T. Johnson, at Hanover Junction, Va., for incorporation with the Maryland Line, failing to do which they will render themselves liable to be considered alien enemies.

By order of Col. John S. Preston, superintendent:

C. B. DUFFIELD,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.


Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 4, Volume 3, Serial No. 129, Pages 311-312, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.


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