December 11, 1862
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Col. Coble, commanding the 68th Regiment, North Carolina Militia, has received orders from Col. Mallott to enroll all white persons in his Regiment, embraced in the last Conscription Act, the enrollment to take place in Greensborough on the 20th instant. For the information of all concerned, we publish the following order, issued by the Colonel to the Captain of the several companies of his Regiment:
You are hereby ordered to notify all white men, who are residents of your district embracing refugees, between the ages of 18 and 40 years to assemble in the town of Greensborough on the 20th day of December, 1862, for enrollment under a recent order from the Commandant of Conscripts.
All persons who may desire to volunteer, must do so before the 20th of December, the day set apart for enrollment, and must join Companies which were in the service of the Confederate States on the 16th of April, 1862.
Persons claiming exemption on the ground that they have put substitutes in service must exhibit to the enrolling officer a discharge from some company, signed by the Commanding officer of the Regiment in command to which the said company belongs, or by the Commandant of Conscripts—said discharge or exemption must show that it was granted in consideration of a substitute having been furnished, and that the substitute is under 18, or above 40 years of age.
All conscripts engaged on Government work, will be enrolled and on that day upon presentation of their certificate of detail will be returned to their work.
Applications for exemption must in all cases, be made to the enrolling officer, through the Colonel of the Regiment—duplicate copies of said application being made in writing, sworn to before a Justice of the Peace, and bearing the certificate of the clerk of the Court given under the county seal.
D. COBLE, Col. Com.
68th Regt. N. C. M.
[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]