The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-27
HEADQUARTERS nth ARMY CoRPs. !
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, (
Nashville, Tenn, Nov 10Th, 1862.S

HEADQUARTERS ltIH ARMY CORpS,
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND.
Nashville, Tenn, Nov. 10th, 1862
General Orders, No. 10.
To avoid misunderstanding as to the
relations between soldiers and citizens.
to define the duties of the troops of this
command, and the rights of others,
which they are required to respect, the
General Commanding directs as follows:
|. All who acknowledge the obliga-
tons Of citizens of the United States,
are entitled to all the rights, privileges,
and protection, due to any citizen.
IL. Peaceable inhabitants, who hon
estly and truly abstain from any inter-
ference, directly or indirectly, with mil
itary matters or movements, are, by the
laws of humanity, entitled to protection
from violence or plumber. They are
quasi citizens and shall be allowed to
follow their avocations and enjoy their
local rights, subject only to needful sur
Vigilance to prevent them from being
used as tools for mischief
III. Those who are hostile to our Gov
ernment repudiating its Constitution
and laws, have no rights under 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 the laws of war and the die
tates of humanity.
~. Those persons who act in the
| double character of citizens and bellig-
erents, or who affecting TO belong to
regular partiZans, are nevertheless re-
moved from the reach of all proper mil
TRY control are, by the laws of nations,
pirates and robbers. By rowing through
the country, they convert every house
into a suspected fort, and deprive the
harmless inhabitants Of the protection
and safety due to their garb and charac-
ter, and spread Generalization and dis
tress wherever they 60, They combine
the meanness of the spy, with the
cOwardice of the assassin, who turks in
disguise TO stab his unsuspecting VIC
tim. Outlaws and enemies, alike of the
government, Of the poor people upon
whom they subsist, and of mankind,
they are entitled to no rights but such
as may be claimed by pirates and rob
bers, and can ask for none other at our
hands.
V. No nation or cause can be benefit
ted by injustice. The General conf
IDENTIFY hopes and expects from the Of
ficers and soldiers Of his command, that
they will set an honorable example OF
strict observance Of those rights-an eX-
ample worthy Of the just cause, in which
they are perilling their lives and all
that is dear to them on earth. TO this
end, all commanders Of troops are en-.
joined to enforce the prohibitions agains
soldiers entering private residences OF
premises, without written permission
or orOer givea on the spot by a com.
missioned officer, who will be held re,
sponsible for il, and for all that il
done.
VI Stragglers, and those villains o.
every grade and class, who follow on
camps, generally dressed in soldiers
garb and appearing as stragglers, pcrpe
trate most OF the outra,Us which dcsolat,
the course Of armies All officers ar,
. therefore enjoined TO put a stop TO stray.
Cling, by every means in their power
. As the company officers are chiefly re
sponsiblo for this, when stragglers from