John Boyle, General Orders, No. 4

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KYR-0002-153-0041

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Kentucky Department of Military Affairs

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Assistant Adjutant General Letter Book - No. 1 ; 5 Sept 1863 - 2 Feb 1864

Item Location

194 to 195

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Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

27 October 1863

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1863-10-27

John Boyle, General Orders, No. 4, 27 October 1863, Assistant Adjutant General Letter Book - No. 1 ; 5 Sept 1863 - 2 Feb 1864, 194 to 195, Kentucky Department of Military Affairs, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0002-153-0041, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Oct^r 27^:[ ]3.
General Orders
N^o. 4.

For the information and guidance of all concerned. The ready response of many of the most exposed Counties to the call for State guards, precludes the necessity of an immediate draft of the Enrolled Militia. such organizations, however will continue to be made in those Counties which have not yet responded to that call. It is still hoped that every County will by such voluntary movement place itself in a condition of self protection and prevent, within its borders the discgraceful raids continually recurring. Those counties which in the end, still decline to assist their neighbors and protect themselves, will be required to furnish their contingents either for State or National defence.

No more commissions will be issued for twelve months recruiting within the State. Enlistments for three years in those Regiments already authorized and in the old regiments, will be continued until some date, to be published hereafter -- when a draft for the same length of service will be enforced.

All advantages as to bounty and [selection] of regiment, will be with volunteers. conscripts will receive only that pay allotted by Congress, and be assigned to fill the depleted ranks of those old Regiments, whose

length of service and paucity of numbers exhibit a patriotism which will necessarily be defiled with by association with men who wait to be drafted.

By order of the Governor
John Boyle
Adjutant Gen^l of Ky.

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