Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-01
LATEST NEWS.
Order Respecting Absent Officers and
Privates.
BY TELEGRA PH
TO THE WORCESTER DAILY SPY.


Privates.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, July
3l.-The absence of officers and privates
from their duty under various pretexts, while
receiving pay, at great expense and burthen to
government, makes it necessary that efficient
measures be taken to enforce their return to
duty; or that their places will be supplied by
those who will not take pay while rendering
no service. The evil moreover tends greatly
to discourage the patriotic impulse of those
who would contribute to support the families
of faithful soldiers. 1t is therefore ordered
by the president.
First. That on Monday, the 18th day of
August, all leaves of absence and furloughs,
by whomsoever given, unless by the war de-
partment, are revoked and absolutely annul-
led, and all officers capable of service are re-
CURED forthwith to join their regiments under
penalty of dismissal from the service, or such
penalty as court martial may award, unless
the absence be occasioned by lawfHl cause.
Second The only excuse allowed for the
absence of officers or privates from duty, af-
ter the 18th day of August, are, first, the or
der or leave of the war department; second,
disabilities from wounds received in the SER
vice; third, disability from disease that rem
ders the party untitled for military Duty but
any officer or private whose health permits
him to visit watering places or places of
amusement, or to make social visits, or walk
about the town, city, or neighborhood, i'll
which he may be, will be considered fit for
military duty.
Third. On Monday, the eighteenth day of
August, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, each regiment
and corps shall be mustered. Three lists
of the same will be made out, and within
forty eight hours after the muster one copy
shall be sent to the Acknowledgement of the
army, and one to the commander of the
corps; the third is to be retained and all
officers and privates fit for duty who are aD-
sent at that time, will be regarded as absent
without cause. Their pay, will be stopped,
and they will be dismissed from the service
or treated as deserters, unless restored, and
no officer shall be restored to his rank unless
by the judgment OF court of enquiry to be
approved by the president. He shall estab-
lish that his absence was without cause.
Fourth. Commanders of corps divisions,
brigades, regiments, and detached ports, are
strictly enjoined to enforce the muster and
return aforesaid, and any officer failing in his
duty herein will be deemed guilty of gross
neglect of duty and be dismissed from the
service.
A commissioner shall be appointed by the
secretary of war to superintend the execution
of this order in the respective states. The
United States marshals in the respective dis.
tricts, the mayor and chief of police of any
town or city, the sheriff of the respective
counties in each state, and all postmasters ant
justices of the peace, are authorized to act as
special provost marshals, to arrest any Officer
or private soldier, fit for duty, who may be
found absent from his command without JUS
cause, and convey him to the nearest military
post or depot. The transportation and rea
sonable expenses of this duty, and five dol
lars, will be paid for each officer or private sc
arrested and delivered.
By order of the president.
EDWIN NJ. STANTON, Sec. of War.