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To return to your original question, general officers were allowed to appoint their own staff members. A brigadier general was allowed one Aide-de-Camp; officers of higher rank were allowed two. The commission was styled '1st Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp', which required officers to relinquish any prior rank. As noted, an A.D.C. served at the pay grade of 1st Lieutenant. When a general's commission expired due to death, resignation or court martial, the commissions of his A.D.C.s expired as well.

You will also see appointments as A.A.D.C. (acting Aide-de-Camp). In this case, a soldier (usually an officer) was appointed to act during the absence of the regularly appointed A.D.C. An acting A.D.C. returned to his prior assignment as soon as the regularly appointed A.D.C. returned to duty.

A volunteer A.D.C. was different from an A.A.D.C. in that he was a civilian, not enlisted in Confederate military service.

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