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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Contributions to the history of the Confederate Ordnance Department . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Organization. (search)
Organization.
The Ordnance Bureau, as finally organized, consisted of one Brigadier-General, one Colonel, and of such additional number of fieldofficers, Captains, and First Lieutenants as the service required.
They were artillery officers on ordnance duty.
Appointments to these positions were at first made by selection, on nomination by the Ordnance Bureau; but about October, 1862, Congress created fifty officers of artillery especially for ordnance duty, to which two hundred more were subsequently added.
As selection for these offices involved much political contrivance, I obtained the order of the Secretary of War to hold examinations for appointment to the grade of Captain and First Lieutenant.
This plan succeeded entirely, and relieved us from a thousand personal solicitations.
The first examination was held at Richmond.
Of some five hundred applications found on file for ordnance officers, less than one hundred came to the examination, and of these only some forty
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The surrender of Vicksburg —a defence of General Pemberton . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A sketch of Debray 's Twenty-Sixth regiment of Texas cavalry. (search)