Greensborough Patriot
February 12, 1863
Page 3
All
Men Between the Ages of 18 and 40, Liable to Conscription
By an order from the Secretary of War, are allowed to
enter any company now in the service by volunteering before they are taken in
the encampment of Conscripts. I have
just seen Governor Vance, and he informs me that all the men enrolled under the
order from the Adjutant General of the State, dated November 27th,
1862, embracing all between the ages of 18 and 40 years old, will be ordered
into camp in a very short time, the delay of two months since his order to
enroll them being occasioned by necessary arrangements for facilitating the
execution of the law. To allow all
Conscripts a choice of companies and regiments, I am detailed by General Lee to
receive Conscripts and volunteers for any regiment in his army, without passing
them through camps of instruction, in the ordinary manner, allowing them all
the bounties and privileges of original volunteers. When once taken to the camp of instruction,
they will not be allowed any choice of companies or officers.
All who volunteer will be allowed pay from the day of
enlistment, commutation for rations until they reach the army, and
transportation.
The following Non-commissioned Officers and Privates from
the 23rd North CarolinaTroops, are
detailed to assist me and persons more convenient of access to them can be
enrolled by them: viz:
Serg’t H. Williams, Company H., Danbury, Stokes
County; Corp’l R. S. Rogers, Company G.,
Independence, Caswell County; Private W.
A. Tuttle, Company A., Lenoir, Caldwell County;
Private S. J. Choate, Company F., Glade Spring, Allegheny County; Private A. M. Kivett, Company M., New Salem,
Randolph County.
I am authorized to receive volunteers for the 22nd
Regiment, or any Regiment in Gen. Lee’s Army, which the volunteer may
prefer. I hope every patriot, not
legally exempt from conscription will immediately rally around his country’s
banner now waving in such glorious triumph, that its triumph may be more
glorious, in the permanent establishment of our independence.
My Head Quarters will be for a few weeks, in Greensboro, N. C., and
volunteers are earnestly requested to come forward and enlist before they are
forcibly carried off to the camp of conscripts.
C. C. COLE, Major
22nd Regiment
N. C. T.
[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]
