Daily union appeal. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-186?, 1862-08-26
SPECIAL ORDERING. lsO.

AS matter of special interest and general
information, wa lay before our readers the fol-
lowing important order:
HEADQUARTERS, FIFTH DIVISION,
aMEMPHIs, Aug. IA, 1862. |
Major Fisher saith Ohio Volunteers, and |
Captain Littlefeld, Provost Marshal of Gen. |
Hurlburt's division, are announced as Assist
ant Provost Marsbals of Memphis, and will |
report to COL Anthony. More attention will |
be given to the quiet and good order of soldiers |
IN the streets. The Assistant Provost Mar |
shals and the patrols and guards sent out By
them, have the power and right to suppress all
riots and nuisances. Any house, where noise,
drunkenness and fighting are either going on,
or likely to 0cessr, is a military nuisance, and
will b. suppressed BY the seizure OF its con
tents, and the delivery of the liquors to the
Hospital Department. If the nuisance cannot
thus be suppressed, the house will be burned
or pulled down, according to It's poeition. Any
Brigade Provost Marshal may suppress d
/ nuisance in the vicinity Of his brigade; b0t no
| house will Le pulled nown or burned, Without
] he written oroer Of the commanding GeB erab
he Provost Marshal, or the commander of
| brigade. Riots the streets will be promptly
supI ressed by blows, the bsyonet, or firing
ubsn necessary. OF coarse, the military are
not bound by the licenses issued by the city
authorities; as licenses are designed for rev.
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and nuisances.
}. In consequence of the abuse of the priv
| ilege. masses given to officers and soldiers are
hereby limited to the time between guard
moaning ia the morning and tattoo az HiShE
when an officer or soldier wishes to remain
absent from his regiment, and stay in the city
over night, he must obtain from his command.
ing officer ard his Brigadier, special leave Of
absence; specifying the reasons OF his visit tc
the city.
20 guard in the city without passes, at any tire
: or after 10 o'clock ut night, without sPecia
> leave from their Brigaders, will be ARRESTED
and confiaed for the night, and sent In tn
morning to the guard of Col. Mcdowell
brigade; soldiers, to work on the fortineatlon
one week, officers, to be confined to their tent
in arrest Written lists, with charges, shout
accompany each batch Of prisoners thus al
90 rested, and sent with them TO the fort. 1t
I hereby made theduJy of the brigade command
er Of the I'd brigade, 9th division, TO organic
his guard so as to compel all prisoners confne
under this order, as well as such as are, {
NAV be sentenced to work by regimental {
GENERAL courts martial, to labor nine hou
800 each day on the Notifications; ne will eau
his guard house to be carefully repaired al
reconstructed, so as to enable the officer OF
guard to confne prisoners safely and TO co
troll their food. Prisoners who will not Wo
are not entitled to rations, and must be put
'0o short diet.
er 8 The regiment of infantry on duty
Provost Guard in the city, and the caval
detailed for the same purpose are hereby
clared to be on guard duty during the time
,T5o their detail and are subject 20 the condltlc
of the 45th article of war. By order OF
Major General w. T. SHERMAN
FL. HAMMOND, A. A. Gen.