Daily union appeal. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-186?, 1862-08-15
The Enemy Send Flag of Truce and
Ask Permission 10 Bury their Dead.

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The Enemy Send a Flag of Truce and
Ask Permission 10 Bury their Dead.
CULPEPPER, VA, August 1.-THE enemy
sent out this morning, a flag of truce, asking
permission to bury their dead. This shows
that with all their superiority in numbers they
were too badly cut up to maintain their posi-
tion, and that their falling back yesterday
was from necessity, and not from choice.
Oar troops are engaged in bringing our wound
ed from the field aud burying the dead.
WASHINGTON, Aug. s.-The Richmond
Dispatch of the 4th says 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.
The following general order we find in its
columns:
General Order
$3.50 ssE .sa. RICHMOND, Aug. l.
First-Tke following orders are published
for the information and observance of all con-
eerned:
WHEREAS, by a general order dated 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 Virgins, South Carolina Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ar
kansas and Texas are directed to seize and use
any property, real or personal, belonging to
the inhab abitants of this Confederacy, which
may be necessary or convenient for their sew
eral commands, aad no provision is made for
compensation to the owners of such private
property seized and appropriated by the mill
tary commander of the enemy.
8. WHEREAS, By General Order No. IL
Issued on the 23d of July, 1862, by Maj. Gen.
Pope, commanding the forces of the enemy in
Northern Virginia, it is ordered that all COM
manders OF army corps, divisions, brigades
and detached commanders, will proceed i'm
mediately to arrest all disloval male citizens
within their limits or within their reach, in
the rear of their respective 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 avocations. Those
who refuse shall be conducted South beyond
the extreme bounds of the army, and be noti-
fed that, if found again in the rear, they be
considered as spies and subjected 10 the ex-
treme rigor 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 property seized and appropriated to the
public use.
i. WHEREAS, By an order issued on the
18th of July, 1862, by Brigadier General A.
SteiRwehr, Major VIM. Stedman, cavalry
officer of his brigade, has been ordered to ar
rest FIVE of the most prominent citizens of
Page county, Va, to be held as hostages and
to suffer death in the event of any of che SOL
diers of said Steinwehr being shot by bash
whackers, by which term is meant the citizens
of the Cenfederacy, who have taken up arms
| to defend their homes and families.
| 8. WHEREAS, It results from the above or
ders that some of the military authorities of
| the United States, not content with the unjust
and aggressive warfare hitherto wage1 with
| savage cruelty against an unofending people,
and, exasperated by the failure of their efforts
| to subiugate them, have now determined to
! violate all the rules and usages of war, and to
| convert the hostilities hitherto waged against
armed forces into campaign of robbers and
| murderers against unarmed citizens and peace
| ful tilleFs of the soil.
| 6. WHEREAS, This government, bound by
| the highest obligations of the duty of its cit
| izens, is thus driven to the necessity of adopt
/ ing such Just measures of retribution and
! retaliation as shall seem adequate to repress
and punish those bsrbarities.
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 the govern
ment, if the intention to change this war into
a system of indiscriminate murder and rob-
berry had been made known TO it.
And, whereas a just regard to humanity
forbids that the repression of crime which this
government is 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 saw
age cruelty of their commanders, so long as
there is hope that the excesses of the enemy
may be checked or prevented by retribution
| on the commissioned officers, who have the
power to avoid guilty action by refusing to
serve under a government which seeks their
| aid in the perpetration OF such infamous bar
barity.
I. Therefore, it is ordered that Maj.-Gen.
| Pope, Brig. Gen. Steinwehr, and all commits
stoned officers serving under their respective
4 commands be, and they are hereby, expressly
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 capture of Maj i.-Gen
Pope, or Brig.-Gen.. Steinwehr, or any com.
missioned officer serving under them, the cap
tive so taken shall be heldin close confinement
| SO long as the orders aforesaid shall continue
in force, and unrepealed by the competent
military authority of the United States, and
that In the event of the murder of an unarmec
citizen or inhabitant of this Confederacy bJ
virtue or under pretense of the order herein
before recited, it shall be the duty of the com
manding general of the forces OF this Confed
eracy to cause Immediately to be hung out o.
the commissioned officers, prisoners as afore
said, number equal to that of our own cit
izens thus murdered by the enemy.
i [Signedl S. COOPER, A A. &.
| A. Mr.. Reynolds having published ar
anti-tobacco pamphletin England, the Lon
don Review criticizes its arguments in thii