June 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE,
COLUMBIA, S.C., June 17, 1863.
GENERAL ORDERS No. 21.
II. THE FOLLOWING PERSONS ARE EXEMPTED by Act of the General Assembly of this State from [….] militia service,’ and, therefore, from draft under General Orders No. 20, viz: The Lieutenant Governor, the Judges of the Courts of Law and Equity, the Ordinaries, Clerks of the Courts of General Sessions and Common Pleas; Sheriffs, Masters, Commissioners and Registers in Equity; the Secretary of State; Surveyor General, Comptroller General and Treasurers of the State. And the following persons are exempted by said Act from service beyond the limits of their respective Districts, and will not be subject to said draft, viz: The members of both branches of the legislature and their respective officers, including the Attorney General and the Solicitors of the State, persons in the Confederate and State military service, officers and cadets of the State Military Academy, regularly officiating clergymen, regularly licensed practising physicians over the age of thirty-five years, one apothecary to each regularly established drug store of six months standing, officers and Faculty of the South Carolina College, and Professors in other incorporated Colleges and Theological Schools, while such Colleges and Schools are in operation; the Superintendent, Teachers and Steward of the Cedar Springs Asylum, School Masters having under their charge not less than twenty scholars; all Branch Pilots; one white man to each established ferry, toll bridge or toll grain mill, if actually kept by such white man; the President, Cashier and one Teller of each of the Banks of the State; the Treasurers of Savings Institutions of the State; the officers and men of the City Guard, and officers and forty men of each Fire Company of the Fire Department of Charleston and Columbia; the officers and as many employees of each Railroad Company as the President or Superintendent may certify to be necessary to the efficient conduct of its business – provided that it shall also be certified that the duties of said employees cannot be discharged by slaves; the Superintendent and Keeper of the Lunatic Asylum and their assistants; Stewards or Keepers of the Poor Houses; the Keepers of the Arsenals of the State; persons holding office under the Confederate States, except Deputy Postmasters; persons employed by the State or by the Confederate States in the manufacture of arms, munitions of war and army supplies; all persons actually engaged in the manufacture of salt on the seacoast; the members of the Boards of Relief of Soldiers’ Families over forty-five years of age; overseers having certificates of exemption issued from this office; persons above the age of fifty years, and persons between the ages of eighteen and forty.
Persons under the age of eighteen, though liable to service beyond their respective Districts, will not be subject to this draft.
III. The commanding officers of Regiments will regard as valid all certificates of exemption issued from this office to overseers and to other persons enumerated in the foregoing paragraph of this order, and persons not having such certificates, but who show by proof, in writing and on oath, that they are clearly entitled to be exempted according to the law, as above stated, will not be subjected to draft.
IV. The organization of companies for active service under General Orders No. 10, issued from this office on the 18th of February last, being superseded by General Orders No. 20, said companies are hereby declared to be disbanded.
By command of the Governor.
A. C. GARLINGTON,
June 20 Adjutant and Inspector General of S. C.