Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-11
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From washington. .

patch of Monday, 4th inst, says: day of re-
tribution is at hand for the outrages which so
long characterized the conduct of the enemy in
their prosecution Of the war.
The following general orders have been issued
from the Adjutant and Inspector Generals Office
at Richmond:
First. The following orders are published for
the information and observance of all concerned
Second, Whereas, By a recent order dated 22d
july 1862, issued by the Secretary of War OF the
United States, under the order of the President
of the United States, the military commanders of
that Government within the States of Virginia,
South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas are d.
rected to seize and use any property. real or per-
sonSl, belonging to the inhabitants of the Con-
federacy which may be necessary convenient
for their several commands, and 40 provision is
made for any compensation to the owners of such
private property seized and appropriated by the
military commanders of the enemy.
Third, Whereas, by general order, No. ii, is
sued on the 23d of July, 1862, by Major General
Pope commanding the forces of the enemy in
northern Virginia, it is ordered that all command
ers of any army corps. division, brigade, and de-
tached commands, will proceed Immediately to
arrest all dislOya male citizens within their linn
its. or within their reach in the rear of their re-
spective commands Such as are willing to take
the oath of allegiance TO the United States, and
will furnish sufficient security for its observance,
shall be permitted to remain at their homes, and
pursue in good faith their accustomed avoca-
tions. Those who refuse shall be conducted
South beyond the extreme bounds of this army,
and be notified that il found again in the rear
they will be considered SPIES and subjected to the
extreme rgor of military law. If any person,
having taken the oath as above specified, be found
to have violated it, he shall be shot, and his pro-
perty seized and appropriated to the public use.
Fourth, Whereas, by an order issued on the
18th July, 1862, by Brig. General A. Steinwehr,
Major VIM. Stedman, cavalry officer OF bis
brigade, has been ordered to arrest five of the
most prominent citizens ofPage county, Virginia,
to be held as hostages and to suffer death in the
event ofany of the soldiers of said Steinwehr be-
in shot by bushwhackers; by which term is
meant the citizens of the Confederacy who have
taken up arms to defend their homes and fami-
lies
fifth. Whereas, it results from the above Or
derS that some of the military authorities of the
United States, not content with the savage cru
city against an inoffensive people, and exasper
ated by the failure of their efforts to subjugate
tnem, have now determined to violate all the
rules and usages of war, and to convert the hos
tilites hitherto waged against armed forces into
a campaign of robbers and murderers against
armed citizens and peaceful tIllers of the soil.
Sixth. Whereas this Government, bound by
thus driven to the necessity of adopting such
just measures of retribution and retaliation it
shall deem adequate To repress and punish these
barbarities; 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 car
tel, in SO far it provinces for an exchange OF prls
oners hereafter captured. would never have been
signed or agreed to by this Government if the in
n, 4 into Of ind,
eliminate murder and robbery had been made
known to it; and whereas just regard to hu-
manity forbids that the repression of crime which
this Government is thus compelled to enforce,
should be unnecessarily extended to retaliation
on the enlisted men in the army of the United
States who may be unwilling instruments of the
savage cruelty of their commanders, so long as
there is hope that the excuses of the enemy may
be checked or prevented by retributiOn on the
commissioned officers who have the power to
avoid guilty action by refusing service under
Government which seeks their aid, and in the
preparation of such infamous barbarities.
Seventh-Therefore it is ordered that MAJ or
General Pope, Brigadier General Steinwehr, and
all commissioned officers serving under their re-
spectve commands, be and they are hereby ex
preSsy and specially declared to be not entitled to
be considered as soldiers, and therefore not en-
titled to the benefit of the cartel for the parole of
future prisoners of war.
Ordered further, that in the event of the cap
ture of Major General Pope or Brigadier General
Steinwehr, or any commissioned officer serving
under them, they shall be kept in close confine-
ment, so long the orders aforesaid shall con
tinue in force and unrepealed by the competent
military authority of the United STAGES, and that
in the event of the murder of any unarmed clti-
zen or inhabitant of this Confederacy by virtue
or under preiense of the orders hereinbefore re-
cited, it shall be the duty of the Commanding
General of the forces of this Confcderacy, to
cause Immediately to be hung out of the COM
ms'siOLed officers, prisoners as aforesaid, hum
Der corresponding to the number of our own
citizens thus murdered by the enemy.
s. COOPER, A. A. G.
WASHINGTON, August 9-Burnsdes army is
in camp at Fredericksburg, ready for move
meut.
The Times letter of the 9th, from Pope's
army, reports McDowells command at Culpep-
per, and Banks's at WoOdvle Banks will
probably be beyond Culpepper by the 7th
A dispatch from Woodyille, dated the 18th, re-
ports Sigel's corps moving from there.
There were rumoIs in Washington yesterday
of heavy fighting at Gordonsvile, but not fully
believed, though not improbable.
The Times letter from the army of the Poto
mac of the It'll, says:
Important mOvements'are progressing on the
south side of James river, but one of such i'm
portance as not TO admit of disclosure at pres
ent.
The rebel ram at Savannah is, according to a
Hilton Head letter, the British steamer Fingal,
covered with railroad iron, with FIVE guns.