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“Adj^t & Insp^r Gen’s Office

Richmond V^a 18. Octo. 1861

Official Orders

N^o. 183

XIII. To secure correctness in the Register of Officers serving in the Provisional Army of the Confed. States, to be sent in to Congress at its next meeting, commanders of all separate bodies of troops will require a list of all officers, according to grade, attached to their regiments, Batt’ns or unattached companies, to be made out & forwarded without delay to this office.

By command of Sec. of War

sgd Jno. Withers

A.A.G.”

Aff: Copy

            W.H. Taylor

                        A.A.G.

To: Gen. Floyd

            Commdg &c

Source: The Archives of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, Papers of the Lee Family, Box 8, M2009.274

Transcribed by Caitlin Connelly, 2016 July 11