Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-21
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Relies and "Reminiscences of the
Olden Times.

tial is ordered to set tomorrow at 10 o'clock
y. NJ, for the trial of John Seymore, John
Batchelor and William Crorton all of Col.
Grldley's regiment, charged with desertion and
theft; at the same time they are to hear and
determine the case of Thomas tDursley, a
stroller, accused of theft. Notice to be given
to the prisoners to day.
2. Capt Leonard of Col. Woodbridge's reg
iment, and the remainder of his company, are
ordered to join the guard at Watertown
3. The clothing provided by the Massachu-
sets committee OF supply, for those men of
their Government, who lost their clothes at
the late action at BunKer's Hill, TO be distrib.
uted to the most needy and necessitous men of
each regiment and an account to be kept
thereof by the commanding officer of each
HEAD QUARTERs, CAMBRIDGE, |
July 7, 1915.
General Orders. BY His Excelleucy Gen
eral Washington. Parole, Dorchester, Coun-
tersign, Exeter. Officer Of the day for to-
morrow, Col Bridge, officer of main guard
Mayor Woods; Adjutant for the day, Fox.
l. 1t is with inexpressble concern that the
General upon his first arrival in the army,
should find an officer sentenced by General
Court Martial to be cashired for cowardce Il
crime Of all others the most infamous, in a
soldier, the most injurious to an army, and
the last to be forgiven, inasmuch as il may,
and often does happen, that the cowardice of
single officer may prove the destruction of the
whole army. The General therefore, though
with great concern, land more especially as the
transaction happened before he had command
of the troops thinks himself obliged, for the
good of the service, to approve the judgment
Ofthe court martial, with IT spect to Capt. John
Calender, who is hereby sentenced to be
cashiered Capt. John Calender is accordingly
e cashiered, and dismissed from further service,
in the continental army as an officer.
The General having made all due enquiries,
and maturely considered this matter, is led to
the above determination, not only from the
particular guilt OF Capt Calender, but the
fatal consequences of such conduct to the army
and to the cause of America he now there
fore most earnestly exhoTts officers Of all ranks
to show an example of bravery and courage to
their men, assuring them that such as do their
duty in the day OF battle as brave and good off.
GERS, shall be hOnored with every mark OF dis
tinction and regard, their manners and merits
made known to the general congress and all
America on the other hand he most positive
ly declares that every officer, be his rank what
it may, who shall betray his country, dishon-
ors the army and his general by basely keep
ing back and shrinking from duty in any en-
gagement, shall be held up as an infamous
coward, and punished as such with the utmost
martial severity, and no connections, interest,
or intercessiOn in his behalf will avail 10 pre-
vent the strict execution OF justice.
2. Capt SCOTS and Capt. Styles compa
MES from New Hampshire, are to be incorpo-
rated or added to Col. Sergeant's regiment,
agreeable to the application made for that pur-
pose.
3. No officer or soldier posted in the lines,
for the defence of them, on Prospect Hill or
nv al cpHy horo D,.a
count to sleep out Of their encampmcnt or
leave it at night The troops raised in New
Hampshire are particularly required to attend
to this order from their particular Circumstance
es Of situation.
4. No soldier belonging to those posts or
elsewhere to be suffered to straggle at a dis
lance from their respective parade on any pre-
tence without leave from his officers, as an un.
guarded hour may prove fatal to the whole ar
my, and the noble cause in which we are
engaged, the Importance of which to every
man of common understanding must inspire
every good officer and soldier with the nobest
ardor and strctest attention, lest he should
prove the fatal instrument of our rum.
5. The adjutant general is required to
make return as quick as possible of the
troops in Cambridge, their number, and the
duty they do.
6. Complaints having been made with re-
spect to the bread, as being sour and pnwhoe-
some, the quartermaster geneRl is fhareby d.
rected to inquire into the mater, ana report
upon it; at the same time to intprA tLd pa kers
if any more complaints are made. and tliSV are
found just, they will be most severelySpun-
ished.
Z. The guards on the roads leading to Bun
ker's Hill are ordered not to suffer any person
to pass them unless an officer is sent down
from the lines to order it, or they will be Sc
verely punished.
8. The general has great reason, and is
highly dispeased with the negligence and in
attention of those officers who have placed as
sentries at the 0utposts men with whose char
acters they are not acquainted. lie therefore
orders that for the future no man shall be ap
pointed to those important stations who is not
a native of this country, or has a wife and FAM
lily in it, to whom he is known to be attached ;
this order is to be considered as standing
one, and the officers are to pay obedience to it
at their peril.
8. A complaint of the most extraordinary
kind having been made to the general that SOL
diers enlisted in one regiment have been Sc
duced to enlist into Others by agents enlisted
for that purpose, under the specous promise
of money or leave OF absence from the army, a
procedure SO subYersive of all order and disci-
pine, and of the very existence OF the army,
cannot be forgiven; the strictest orders are
therefore given against such practices, and the
general most earnestly declares that if any
agent or soldier shall be found hereafter so Of
lending, he will punish them with the utmost
severity.
10Th A erll court martial having sat
upon VIM Patten, and reported that no evi.
dence appeared against him to support the
charge, the general deerS decision upon the
report, until further consideration and in the
wait on Col. Ward, by whom the prisoner was
confined, and learn from him upon whose COM
plant and what witnesses there are to support
it,
18th. A regimental court martial is ordered
to sit tomorrow ut 10 o'clock, on Samuel Bart
lett Of the company late Capt. Cullender's, and
Col. Gridly's regiment, confined for abusive
behavior
18th. A general court martial to sit to-mor-
row forenoon for the trial of Thomas Domily,
charged with stealing. Each OF the above
prisoners to have notice to-day, and the wit
hesses ~ like manner ordered to attend
l3th' In order that all the sick and wounded
Ill the army may be provided Tor, and taken
care OF III the best way and manner possible
IL is oraefeu that when any officer or soldier is
so i'll, either by wound or otherwise. that the
surgeon Of the regiment to which he belonps
finds he cannot be properly taken care of IN
such regiment, such surgeon shall send him TO
the camp hospital 10 which they belong, with
u certificate, tie mans name, the componv
and regiment to which he belongs, and in that
ease the surgeon of the hospital shall receive
the said sick and wounded, and in case such
hospital shall be too full, in that case the sur
geon Of said hospital shall send such OF his
patients as may be removed with safety to the
hospital at Watertown, with the like certificate
as above, OH which the surgeon of Waterown
hospital is to receive and take care OF him.