Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-12-16
Gen. Roseuuaus makes a tEo-edged Order.
HEAD QUARTERS l4.h ARMY CORPS !
N,,Shviue. Tenn. Nov lotu, 1852

Ngshvlle, IcnhN0V. iStps Ao0-.
To avoid misunderstanding as TO the
relations Between soldiers and citizens, to
define the duties Of the troops Of this com
mand, ana the rights of others which they
are required 10 respect, the Gen. Comlnan-
ding directs as follows.
/. All who acknowledge the Obligations
Of the United States, are entitled to ali the
rights, privileges, and protection due 70
any citizen.
III. Peaceable inhabitants, who honestly
and truly abstain from any interference, d.
reetly or indirectly, with military matters
or movements, are, by the law of human
ity, entitled to protection from violence Or
plumber. They re quasi citizens and
Shall be allowed 20 follow their ayocatlons
aud enjoy their local rights, subject only to
needlul Surveillance to prevent them from
being used as tools for mischief.
Ill. Those who are hostile TO Dir Gov
eminent, repudiating its Constitution and
laws. have no rights und them. Their
claims to such are absurd. The only laws,
to Which they can appeal, and which we
are bound to observe towards them, are
tie laws Of war and the dictates Of human
ity.
Nv. Those persons who act in the doub-
le character of citizens and belligerents, or
who, affecting to belong to regular partl-
Fans, arc nevertheless removed from the
reach of all proper military control, are by
the law Of nations, pirates and ROBBERS. by
rowing through the country, they convert
every house into a suspected fort. and de-
priye the harmless inhabitants of the pro-
lection and salty due to their garb and
character, and spread Generalization and
distress Wherever they 60. They combine
the meanness of tbs spy,withe the coward
ice Of tho, assassin, who Turks III disguise
to stab his unexpected victim. Outlaws
and enemies, alike of the governmental of the
poor people upon whom they subsist, and
Of mankind, they are entitled TO no
rights but such as may be claimed 10y pr
rates and robbers, and can ask for none
other at oar hands.
V. No cation or cause can be benefited
by injustice. The General confidently
hopes ard expects from the officers and
soldiers ofhis command that they will set
an honorable example of stlict observance
Of these rights --an example worthy of the
Just cause, lin which they are perillng their
lives and AL that is dear to them on earth.
70 tliis ENG, all commanders of troops are
enjoined td enfo rec the prohibitions against
soldiers entering private residences or prem
ises, Nitlo|lt written permission OF order
given on the spot by commissioned off
Ger, who will be held responsible for it and
for all that. is done
vi. St3agglers. and those villains Of
every grade and class, who follow our camps
generally dressed in soldiers garb and APP
pearing as straggers, perpetrate most of
the outrages which desolate the course Of
armies. All officers are therefore enjoine
to put a stop to straggling,by every means
il their power. As the company officers
are chiefly. responsible for this, when strag-
glers from any companies are repo ted, the
Gen. Commanding will deal with the com
pany officers in the most summary manner.
Any commissioned officer, permitting such
Struggling, will be dismissed the service.
Division, brigade and Regimental com
-manders will in like maner be held ae-
countable for MT enforcing this order
among their subordinates. BY command of
MAJ. GEN. RosENcRAEs.
JUuUs PIG AREscHE.
Assistant Adjntani, General and Chief Of
STAFF.