CIRCULAR.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,
Subsistence Department.
Regulations of Subsistence Department other than those already
printed in Army Regulations, with date of Order.
January 14,1862. Chaplain's rations either commuted or drawn. If
commuted, allowed at twenty-five cents per diem while with their com-
mands, and at sixty cents, if detached.
March 27, 1 862. Commissaries are not allowed the expenses of officers
or others sent to the seat of government for the transaction of business.
April 9, 1862. Field commissaries are not allowed to employ citizen
clerks or assistants.
April 28,1862. Ration reduced to one pound of beef or a half pound
of bacon or pork; flour and meal not to exceed one pound and a half of
either.
May 31, 1862. Rations allowed to men in the Nitre and Mining De-
partment.
September 8,1862. Commissaries ordered to transfer hides to quarter-
masters.
September 9,1862. Commissaries ordered to return all barrels and
sacks to the officer from whom they draw subsistence stores. To pay
seventy-five cents for each barrel, and one dollar and twenty-five cents
for each sack they fail to return.
Sept. 13, 1862. Commutation due furloughed men, or other soldiers
whose rations are due, and may, according to Regulations, he commuted,
to be paid at the rate of thirty-three cents per diem. The account to state
the length of time, date and amount, and circumstances under which the
commutation was made, to be certified by commanders of companies, or,
commissioned officers under whose orders the soldier was at the time the
rations became due.
September 13, 1862. Regimental commissaries authorized to transfer
tunds in their hands to brigade'or post commissaries.
Sept. 23, 1862. Commanding officers required to examine promptly
the returns of their commissaries, whether the issues were made by direc-
tion of their predecessors in command or by their own direction.
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October 17,1862. Officers required to pay cash for subsistence stores,
and allowed to purchase only such articles as are a part of the regular
ration issued to soldiers at the time.
October 22, 1862. Officers prohibited from sending persons for funds
when the money can be sent by express.
November 25,1862. Comniutation due sick and wounded in hospitals
allowed at one dollar per ration, and attendants at the cost of the ration
at the post. To date from November 1st, 1862.
December 9, 1862. Commissaries receiving beeves will deliver to the
officer from whom they draw supplies, hides, corresponding in number
with the beeves killed. The issuing commissary to transfer them to the
quartermaster.
April 1, 1863. Trice of beef hides transferred under General Orders of
September 8th, 1862, and paid by quartermasters to commissaries, will be
at the rate of five cents per pound for green, and ten cents per pound for
dry hides, in the Trans-Mississippi Department. For all beef hides east
of the Mississippi, thirty cents per pound.
April 18, 1863. Issue of whiskey, except in cases of extraordinary
fatigue and exposure, prohibited.
May 12, 1863i Attendants and others in hospitals, except sick and
wounded, are allowed the same ration as soldiers in the field, to be issued,
if the commissary can issue in kind; if not, to be commuted at sixty cents
per ration on certificate of surgeon as to dates and facts.
May 16, 1863. Hospital rations to sick and disabled soldiers com-
muted at one dollar and twenty-five cents per ration, in field or general
hospitals.
May 16, 1863. Hospital laundresses allowed one ration per diem..
May 29, 1863. Commissary sergeants allowed to regiments to be paid
twenty dollars per month out of quartermaster's funds on the pay roll.
June 4, 1863. Pay allowed men detailed at posts, or stations without
troops, or in counties, towns or government workshops at three dollars
per day, in lieu of all commutation, to be paid by the departments in
which the men are detailed. When serving in the field as clerks, at one
dollar and twenty-five cents per diem. To take effect 1st January, and
continue to 31st December 1863. In Subsistence Bureau, to be paid on
Form 21, which form must be approved by the commanding officer.
June 17, 1863. Ration allowed soldiers in movement or at work, half
a pound of bacon or salt pork. Stationary troops, a third of a pound.
June 27, 1863. Pay allowed sub-agents of district commissaries to be
fixed *by the district commissary, gubject to the approval of the Chief C.
S. of the state.
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July 8, 1863. Commutation of rations to men upon furlough not to
he paid until they rejoin their commands, excepting those on sick and
wounded furloughs.
July 8,1863. Kations to be issued to discharged men delayed at way
hospitals.
July 17, 1863. One ration per day allowed detailed soldiers in ord-
nance workshops or arsenals, who receive three dollars or less per day,
to be issued on returns similar to those used for hospitals, and to be paid
for by the Ordnance Department. The issuing commissary to account
for the funds received from such issues.
July 27, 1863. When the supply of salt is adequate, and fresh meat is
issued oftener than thrice a week, the salt ration will be fixed at three
quarts to one hundred rations.
July 27, 1863. Commanding officers have no authority to alter or fix
the ration established by the Secretary of War.
July 29, 1863. Citizens and detailed men acting as clerks in the Com-
missary Department, and capable of performing military duty, to have
their places filled by non-conscripts or disabled soldiers.
August 1,1863. Assistant brigade commissaries to make sales to offi-
eers, pay commutation accounts, and perform such other duty as may be
assigned them by the brigade commissary.
September 7, 1863. Sugar ration reduced to six pound? to one hun-
dred rations.
L. B. NORTHROP,
Commissary General.