Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-07-31

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HEAD QEAKTEBs, DIVISION -----.
I0ip l2lh. 1852.
GENERAL ORDER,

GENERAL ORDER,
All police and so"veoSer duty about Camp val! be
after being killed By bom heia in bnte No furoughs Of
ndugences Of any Kind Will be granted 10 them to the
aosentsSs from th neio II nat!eGs hot nom WEGt e@ne
ous'v on, until it shall be completed a list CT the
be handed day. Should objections exist against
regular promotion, these must be stated with the utmost
ed 1t Is that no one be proposed for promo
ton who absent from the recent battles whether from
sickness or any other cause Inc Recommendation should
than Lieutenant Colonel he should be recommended
the vacant Coonelcy and SO for al the positions vacated
by death resignation Urr eat want is Intelligent.
brave end efficient officers ard these nns he procured from
the staff, the li0e or the ranks.
III corporal punishment by buckiog Or fatigue duty
must be inflicted upon all sraggeTs from Camps especially
tn ,se taken in Richmond Brigade Guards must be estab
hh today and tents Of Ccopels and BrgAdiers placed
their camps insure the faithful of
Guard duty.
lV.-Offcers shonld seek to impress upon their the
importance of every being at the post duty and hey
the ocers should set the example by remaining in camps
and attending In person. and not hy delegation, to their
appropriate duties. BY order
p. II. HILL, Maj. Gen.
The above order speaks for itself 1t is strange or
der to say the least Of it. It may be that a FIRST
ton is intended fer Wit, satcet mast he indeed
otherwise it would be nonsense.
The sweeping character Of it language against those
absent from the late battles from nny cause s worse
than nonsense or even illtime Wit. L. plsy be rank
injustice. Men might have fought before, and been
wounded. They might have stood in the trenches aud
been sckened bat all this makes no diferenee-f ab.
sent for any cause they os!racsed Pleasant that
for the wouDdd patriot writing with pain, Or for the
sick apguiehiDg with disease, the wound received
the sickness contracted D the service Of the country
When will men, pufsd up by little brief authority,
learn common sense When will the hero of the useless
slaughter Of Tuesday the 1t learn that ecnt not fame
That charging battery in front that ought to have
been and would have been turned is not far removed
from murder? That sometimes vanity eau intoxicate
men efecually and far hesressy than liquor
That service may have been done and wounds received
and promotion mered in fields not Illustrated by tie
genius OF General Hill?
IT will be seen that Forrest is again at work in Ten
nessee, have entered Lebanon, % miles from Nashville
on the 10Th. We learn that there were three exped-
tons of nearly the character sent out the same
time by the Confederates. One under Morgan another
under Forrest-and the third under commander whose
we heard bnt have forgotten. Unless the attack
upon Henderson, KY, and Newberg, Indiana was made
By this column its operations have yet to be heard from
Henderon is far from Cythiana the point at which
Morgan was last previously reported, that cannot
think the movement there and at NeWberg could have
been made By any portion of his command.