Item Description: Memorandum, dated 26 November 1864, issued by the Confederate War Department, concerning ordinances confiscated or recovered from deserters.

Item Citation: Folder 18, T.L. Clingman Papers, #00157, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Item Transcription:

War Dept.
Ord. Bureau
Richmond Nov. 26^th 1864

Arms and accoutrements brought into our lines by deserters from the enemy will be turned over to Brigade Ord. officers and taken up in their property returning. The deserter will be furnished with duplicate property receipts, setting forth the condition and value of the articles turned in. Their value to be determined by the rates fixed in G.O. 35 A&I.G.O. 1864 and G.O. 158 of 1863. These accounts will be paid upon presentation to any disbursing Ord. officers of the army to which the Brigade is attached, or at the Ord. Bureau Richmond Va. In exceptional cases by Maj. E.B. Smith – disbursing officer.

(Sigd.) I. Gorgus
Chief of Ord.

Official
sigd. J.A. de Lagnul
Lieut. Col. & Asst.

Official
Sigd. W.H. Taylor
AAGenl.

Official
Sigd. O. Latrobe
AAGenl.

Official L.L. Cross
AAGenl.

Col. H.McKeithan
Comdg. Brigade