White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1863-02-12
BUSHWHACKERs ITO BE EXTER.
MINATED.
NO MORE AID TO THE REBELLION
In MISSOURI.
strinsen. Order BY Genera! Ben. Loan.

HrADauAHTEas CEsrRAL Brn'cr OF Mn-}
sou.i, JKyszason CIrY, NJ jan. 20, 1855
General Order, No. 8
1 The armies of the enemy have bee
driven beyond the borders of this Stat
for more than year past be has bee
unable to maintain any regular militar.
forcs within them-yet, in violation
| oil known rules of warfare. civilized o
savage. the rebels are in the habit Of send
ing their emissaries within the State TO
the purposes. Now, in view of the re
cent assaseinations, murderers. and rob
berries committed in this Military Distric
BY armed bands. who in so doing assum
to be acting under authority derived from
rebel sources and who are instigste'
thereto by the emmissries sent here by
by our enemies to incite their adhsrent
to the commission of the most diabolica
crimes !. attended in some instances will
act Of such savage cruelty and iendist
strocity. that the history of the worid
can furnish. no parallel for them. Ths
bodies of their victims are horribly mo-
tilsted. The bleeding. quivsring desh il
torn from the cheeks I; the face is stamp
ed with the booth heels of the murderer
their ears are cut off; powder is poured
into their ears and exploded. and untold
horrors fail to satiate the malice Of those
who cause the tends in hell to shuddsr
by the enormity of their crimes.
1t becomes an imperative duty to pro-
vide, at once, adequate means to suppress
these outrsges, and furnish full and am
pie protection to loyal citizens against
their recurrence. To these ends it is Or
dered:
1. That any person found within this
Military District, attempting to recruit
or organize any force to act against the
Federal Government, or the Government
of this State. or against the pesceable in
habitants of either, or who holds any
commission. or other paper purporting to
be com mission, or authority from those
in rebellion, or otherwise opposing Fed
ersl authority. to recruit. organize, or
otherwise collect or assemble any force
to act in opposition to the Federal su-
thority, shall be promptly executed by
the first commissioned officer to whom
be may be delivered, or under whose con-
troll he may be placed.
II. That all persons who shall know
insly hsrbor, conceal aid or abet by fur
nishing food. clothing information. pro.
lection or any assistance, whatever to any
such emisssry. Confederate officer or SOL
dier, partisan ranger, bushwhscker, rob-
Der or thief shall be promptly executed
by the first commissioned officer into
whose hands he may be delivered or un-
der whose care be may be placed. The
houses at which such persons receive
lood. protection or assistance in any way
shall be destroyed and the personal
property found at such places, or on the
Isrms belonging thereto, shall be seized
and applied to the idemni6cation of
Union citizens for the losses sustained by
hem in consequence of the wrongful acts
of these bands.
III. That any officer in this military
district who shall fail to execute prompt
y the foregoing provisions Of this order,
will be tried by court martial for DISC
oedience of orders.
By order of Brig. Gen. Loan.
: JAMES RAINsFoRD,
Major and Assistant Adjutant General.