The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-08-11

| ''~SAae3S~"t ~AN -
The Richmond dispatches OF Angus
4th says, = day of reckoning is at hand
for the outrages which have long charac
terzed the conduct Of the enemy in the
conduct of the war
Adj't. and Inspectors Genrs. Office,
Richmond. August !, 1862. {
General Order No. 50.
! The following Orders are published for
| the informatiof, ana observation of all
concerned s.
/ Whereas. by General Order dated
s2nd of July 1862, issued by the Score
tary of War of the United States, under
the order o. the President OF the United
States. that the Military Commanders Of
the Government within the States of Vir-
GINA, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
and Arkansas, are directed to seize and
use any property real or personal, belong
ing to the inhabitants of this Confeder-
acy, which may be necessary or con-
| yenient for their service commands, and
no provision is made for any com PEN
sation to tbs owners of such property
seized and appropriated by the Military
Commanders Of the army. Whereas,
| by General Orders No IL issued on the
2Srd Of July 1852 BY Major General
Pope, commanding the forces 1.-THE enc
my in Northern Virginia, it is ordered
that all commanders of any zrmy, corps,
| division, brigade and brigade command,
will proceed Immediately to arrest Ill
disloyal male citizens within their limits,
or within reach of the respective CON-
mands, such as are willing to take the
oath OF allegiance 10 tie United States,
and will promise Sufficient evidence of
| its observance, shall be permitted u re-
turn 10 their homes and persue in good
faith their avoeation, those who refuse,
shall be conducted south beyond the ex
extreme piekcts Of this army, and be mott.
fed that if found again in the rear they
will be considered Us spies, and subject
to the extreme vigor Of military law
If any person having taken the oath as
above specified be found 10 have violated
il, shall be shot and his property seized
and appreciated to the public use.
| A.. Whereas, by an order, Issued on
the 18th of July, 1862, by Brig. Gen.
A. Ste,nwehr, j. William Steadman,
cavalry officer Of his brigade has been
ordered to arrest Eve Of the most promi-
nent citisens of Page county, Va, to DO
held as hostages and to suffer death in
event of any Of the soldiers of said Stein
wehr being shot by bushwackers by which
term is meant the citizens of the Confed-
ency, who have taken up arms to defend
their homes and families.
5. Whereas, it results from the above
orders that some Of the military authori-
ties of the United States with the unjust
aggressive warfare hitherto waged with
savage cruelty against an inofsnsive
people and exasperated by the failure Of
their efforts to subjugate them have now
determined to violate all the rules and
usages of war, and to convert hostilties
hitherto waged against armed forces into
campaign Of robbing and murder against
unarmed citizens and peaceful tillers of
the soil.
6. Whereas, this government, bound
by the highest obligations Of duty to its
citizens, is thus driven to the necessity Of
adopting just measures Of retribution and I
retaliation as shall seem adequate to re-
press and punish these barbara ties and
whereas, the orders above recited 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 exchange of prisoners hereafter
captured would never have been signed
or agreed to by tho government Of
the intention to change this war
into system Of indscriminate murder
and robbery, had been made known
to it; and whereas, Just regard
to humanity forbids that the repression Of
crime which this Government il thus
to enforce, should be unneees-
sarily extended to retaliation on the en-
listed men in the army of the United
States, who may be unwilling instruments
Of the savage cruelty of their commander,
50 long a. there is hope that the excuses
Of the army may be checked or prevented
by retribution On the commissioned OIL
GERS, who have the power to avoid guilty.
action, by refusing service under Cow
which seeks their aid and in the
Of such Infamous barbara
Ties @@
z. Therefore, il il ordered that Major
General Pope, Brig. Gen. 6teinwshr, and
al commissioned officers serving under
their respective commando, b and they
are hereby expressly and specially decAr.
I'd to be not entitled 70 be considered u
so soldiers and therefore not entitled "a the
benefit Of tho cartel for the parole Of fu-
lure prisoners Of war. Vrdesd fnrther,1
hat in the event Of the capture Of Mai ,