Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-06-01
GENERAL ORDERS.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE Army, D
Ialana Anril 30. 1913.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
Jslapa, April 80, l649.
l. The divisions of the army in this
neighborhood will be held in readiness to
advance soon efter the arrival of trains
now coming up from Vera Cruz.
2. The route and the time of common
cling the march will be given at general
headquarters.
3. Major Gen. Patterson, after desig-
mating a regiment Of volunteers as part of
the garrison to hold this place, will put
bis brigades successfully in march, with
an interval of twenty-four hours between
them.
4. Brig. Gen. Twiggs's division will
follow the movement, also by brigades.
5. Each brigade, whether of regulars
or volunteers, will be charged with es-
corting such part Of the general supply
train of the army as the chiefs OF the gen
eral staff may have ready to, send forward.
6. Every man Of the divisions will take
two days subsistence in his haversack.
This will be the general rule for all mar
cheS when greater number of rationS is
not specially mentioned.
7. As the season is near when tho army
may no longer expect to derive supplies
from Vera Cruz, it must begin to look
exclusively to the resources ofthe country.
8. Those resources, far from being
over-abundant near the line of operations.
would soon fail TO support both the army
and the population, unless they be gath
cred in without waste and regularly issued
by quartermasters and commissaries.
8. Hence they must ne paid for, or the
people will withhold, conceal, or destroy
them. The people, moreover, must be
conciiated, soothed, or well treated by
every officer and man OF this army, and
by all lis followers.
10. Accordingly, whosoever maltfeats
unofehding Mexicaus, takes without pay
OF wantonly destroys their property, of
any kind whatsoever, will prolong the
war, waste The means, present and future,
OF subssLing our own men and animals as
they successfully advance into the interi-
o. or return to our water depot, and no
Amy can possibly drag after i, to any
considerable distance, 30 matter what the
season Of the year, the heavy articles of
breadstuffs. meat, and forage.
IL. Those, therefore, who rob, plumber,
or destroy the houses, fences, cattle, poul.
try, grain, fields, gardens, or property of
any kind along the line Of our operations
are plainly the enemies ofthis army. The
generaI-in chief would infinitely prefer
that the few who commit such outrages
should desert at once and fight against US;
then it would be easy to shoot them down
or capture and hang them.
II. Will the greakbody Of intelligent,
gallant, and honorable men who compose
this army, tolerate the few miscreants who
perpetrate such crimes Again, the gen.
eral-in. chief confidently hopes not. Let,
then, the guilty be promptly seized aud
brought to condign punishment, or the
good must suffer the consequences, in
supplies and loss Of character, of crimes
not their own.
ID. To prevent struggling and maraud-
ing. the roll of every company of the army
will be called at every halt by or under
the eye of an officer. In camps and in
quarters there must be at least three such
roll. calls daily; besides, siragglers on
marches will certainly be murdered or
captured by rancheros.
IA. The waste of ammunition by neg
lect and idle or criminal firing, is most
serious evil in this army. All officers
are specially charged to see that not car
fridge be lost from the want of care, nor
fired except by order; otherwise, fifty
wagons of ammunition would not suffice
for the campaign, and it is difficult to find
ten. Let every man remember that it is
unsafe to meet the enemy without he has
forty rounds in his cartridge box.
10. Every regiment that leaves wound
ed or sick men in hospital, will take care
to leave number of attendants, accord
ing to the requisition of the principal sur
geon of the hospital. Those least able to
march, will be selected as attendants.
This rule is general.
BY command of Major Gen. Scott:
HI. SCOTT, a. A. A. G.