The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-12

Two companies of light artill ~, who
skedsddled from Shiloh, garrison Fort
1aines.
WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-The Richmond
Dispatch of Monday, Ali, says, a day of
retribution is at hand for the outrages which
have so long characterized the conduct of
the enemy in the prosecution of the war.
ADJ'r INSPECTOR Generals OFFICE, I
RIoHMoED, August l,
GENERAL ORDER NO. 81.
FIRST. The following orders are publish
ed for the information and observation of
all concerned.
WHEREAS, By a general order, dated the
22d of, July, 1862, issued by the Secretary
of War of the United States. under the or
der of the President of the Unised States,
the military commanders of the Govern
ment within the States of Virginia, South
CaroIipa, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Lou
isiana, Texas, and Arkansas are directed TO
seize and use property, real or personal, be-
longing to the inhabitants of the Coufede-
racy, which may be necessary or convenient
for their several commands, and no pIovis-
ion is made for any compensation to the
owners of such private property seized and
the enemy. W
Third WHEBEAs. By General Order No.
III, issued on the 23d of July, 1852, by Ma
jor-General Pope, commanding the forces of
the enemy in Northern Virginia, it is or
dered that all commanders of any army
corps division, brigade, and detached COM
mands will proceed Immediately to arrest
all disoyal male citizens within their Inn
ire fhasr aof. I'M ba aft kair
respective commands such as are willing
70 take the oath of allegiance 10 the United
States, and will furnish sufficient security
for its observance shall be permitted 10 re-
mAin at their homes and pursue in good
faith their accustomed aVocatioDs; those
who refuse, shall be conducted South be-
you'd the extreme bounds of this army, and
| he notified that if found again in the rear,
they will be considered as spies, and sub
iected to the extreme rigor of military law.
If any person having taken the oath as
above specified, be found to have violated
it, be shall be shot, and his property seiz-d
and appropriated to the public use.
Fourth. WHEREAS By an order issued on
the 18th of July, 1862, by Brigadier Gen
eral A. Steinwehr, Major William Stedman,
a cavalry officer OF his brigade, has been or
dered to arrest five of the most prominent
citizens of Page county, Va, to be held as
hostages, and to suffer death in tue event of
any of the soldiers of said Sieinw chr being
shot by bushw hackers, by which term is
meut the citizens of the Confederacy who
have taken up armes to defend their homes
and families.
Fifth. WHEREAS. 1t results from the
above that some of the military authorities
of the Unlted States, not content with the
unjust and aggressive warfare hitherto
waged with savage cruelty against an un-
offending people. and exasperaIed by the
failure of their efforts to suhjugate them,
have now determined to violate all the
rules aud usages of war, and to convert the
hostilities hitherto waged against armed
forces into campaign of robbers and muir
derers against unarmed citizsns and peace
fulstillers of the soil.
Sixth. WHEREAS, This Government
bound by the highest obligations of duty to
its ciuz .ns is thus driven to the necessity
of adopting such just measures of retribu-
ton and retaliation as shall seem adequate
to repress and punish these barbaritres, and
whereas the orders above -ecited have only
been published and made known to this
! Government since the signature Of cartel
| for the exchange of prisoners of war, which
| cartel, in so far as it provides for an ex-
| change of prisoners hereafter captured,
would never have been sigHed or agreed to
: by the Government if the intention to
| change this war into a system of indis-
| crImiuate murder and robbery had been
made known to it, and whereas just re-
/ gard to humanity forbids that the rrpres.
sion of crime which this Government
thus compelled to enforce should be uncor $
dirioually extended to retaliation on the
enlisted army of the United States who
may be unwilling instruments of the saw
age cruelty of their commanders, so long as
there is nope that the excuses of the enc
my may be checked or prevented by retri-
button on the commissioned officers, who
have the power to avoid guilty action, by
refusing service under a government which
seeks their aid, and in the preparation oil
such Infamous barbarities:
| Seventh. Therefore, it is ordered thai
Major General Pope, Brigadier Gen. Stein
webr, and all commissioned officers serv.
ing under their respective commands be
and they are hereby expressed and special
" declared not 10 be entitled to the ben
fit of the cartel for the parole of futur,
prisoners of war
ordered further, That in the event of tht
capture of Major. Gen. Pope or Brig. Gen
Steinwehr, or any commissioned officer serv
ing under ahem KEEP in close confinement
so long as the orders aforesaid shall contin.
ne in force and unrepealed nv the compe
tent military authority of the United States
and that in the event of the murder of AMI
uuarmed citizen or inhabitant of the Con
federacy, by virtue or under pretense of tn
orders hereinbetore recited, it shall be tb
duty of the commanding general of the for
ces of this Confederacy to cause immediate
ly TO be huug out of the commissioned off
GERS prisoners as aforesaid, number equa
to our own citizens thus murdered by tn
enemy.
[siguedl S. COOPER. A. A.G.