The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-08
THE WAR In GEORGIA.

1ork. lue ottdck WAS very Staf p ana spirited,
but failed to accomplish the desired object
THE WAR In GEORGIA.
A Stirring Order from Gen. Sherman.
AownRrH, Geo y June 9.-The follow
ing stirrin. order f.Om Gen. Sherman has
been published:
HkADQ'Rs MILITARY Div. or THIS MISS.
Is THE FIELD, NEAR DALLAS, juno 4. }
SPECIAL FIELD oRDERs NO IL.
The attention of the general commanding
has been called to certain facts which had Ill
ready attracted his own attention. and con-
corning which he orders:
lst In case Ofskirmi-h or battle, the wound
ed must be brought off the field hy musicians
or non-comba. ants: distinguished by badge
of white cloth on the left arm lu no case, as
long as firing continues. should an armed sol.
dier abandon his command i'm battle to attend
the wounded-See Par. 734, Army Regula-
tons.
I'd. Hospitals are too fur to the rear of their
corps or divisions; they should be kept up as
close us possible, and covered ny the shape of
ground and not by distance. The surgeons in
charge are responsible that slight wounds and
Striking be not the cause Of OBTAINING armed
men about their hospitals Each attendant
should have at all times about his person the
written authority which justifies his presence
at the hospital or in passing to and from the
command t. which his hospital belongs.
Sd. Skulking, Striking and Struggling be-
hind in time OF danger are such high detesta-
BILE crimes that the general commanding would
hardly presume them possible, were il not for
his own observation. and the report that at
this moment soldiers are found lOating in the
cabins to the rear, as far back as Kingston
The only proper fate of such mi-creau,s is that
haxy ms OH
fessiOn and country; aud all officers and pat
rolls sent back to arrest them will shoot them
without mercy, on the slightest impotence or
resistance. BY thus wandering in the rear
they desert their fellows, who expose them
selves in battle in the full faith that all on the
rolls are present, and they expose themselves
to capture and exchange as good soldiers, to
the duty of every officer who finds such skulk
ers, to deliver them to any provost guard, re-
CARELESS OF corps to be employed in mental or
hard work, such as repairing roads, digging
drains, sinks, &c. Officers. ii found skulking
will be subjected to the same penalty US enlist
ed men viz: instant death. or the hardest la
OOi ana treatment. AbsenteeS not accounted
for should always be mustered as deserters. to
deprive them of their pay and bounties, re-
served for honest soldiers. .
4th. ALI will be styled skulkers who are
found in the rear, absent from their proper
commands without written authority from
their proper commander. Captains cannot
give orders or passes beyond their regimental
limits. colonies beyond brigade liuts, nor
brigadiers beyond division limits. The COM
manding generals of the three departments
alone can order officers or detachments, with
or without wagons back 10 Kingston or any
other general depot.
9Th If unarmed soldiers are found on horses
or mules at distance from tn, ir proper CON-
man6
will make prisoners of the men and appropri-
ate .he horse or mule to the use of the cavalry.
Orderlies to general officers ON duty will be
easily recognized by bearing official orders or
receipts for the came. But each general officer
should provide his orderlies With an official de
tail. to be carried with him.
Horses aud mules sent to forage or to Craze
should be sent by Diet chment with arrns. and
military organization. when they will always
be respected.
ct /. Brigade ard regimental commanders
are the proper officers to keep their officers
and men to their places. The commanding
general will, by his inspectors and in person
give this matter full attention, and when the
time comes for reports on which to base claims
| for reward and promotion, no officer having q
loose struggling command need expect any
favor.
9TH. The commanding generals of the three
armies will make this order public and organ
effect
BY order of Maj. Gen. w. I. Sherman
L. NJ. DAYTON, Aid-de-Camp.
HnADo'Rs DErAErM'r AND ARMY or TnSS,)
In THE FIELD NEAR New Hope CHURCH,
June f. 1e64.
The above order will be read at least three
times to every regiment battery and detach-
ment of this command.
BY order Of Ma. Gen Mcpherson.
WHIT CLARK. A. \. G.
LOUISVILLE, June Is.
On the morning of the 18th the rebel Gen.
Wharton commanding brigade of g. 800 men,
crossed the railroad between Kingston and
Dalton, capturing and burning five freight
trains loaded with supplies.
On the goth Capt Glover made raid Oh the
| railroad five miles from Resaca aud captured
| two freight trains with Supplies.
Col. Lagrange, of the LIST Wisconsin cavalry,
commanding brigade was captured on the 9th.
Col. Gage, of the goth Wisconsin. wounded
| in the recent assault on the Kenesaw Mountain,
| passed through here tonight en- route for St,
Louis.
On the 10Th three companies of the 54th re-
bel infantry came into our lines on the Chatta-
hOochee took the oath of allegiance, and were
employed rs teamsters and labOrers.
A camp of rebel cOnscrips, on the Hender-
sonville road, six miles from Atlanta, on Fri
| day, broke for our lines. They numbered SOO,
six hundred of whom got in, and the remain
der were recaptured by the rebels.
Ira B. futile, Chief of Scouts of the Army OF
the Cumberland, on the 18th Instant, with four
men, made daring descent on forage pos
fourteen miles southwest of Atlanta, captured
rebel Lieutenant Colonel, Captain and three
issuing sergeants, and burning a stOrehOuse
containing fifty thousand bushels of corn and
large lot of bacon.
On the 18th j. N. Mackinsen of Indiana, one
"a our scouts, was captured at Kingston, Ga
anu hung as Federal spy.
gentleman from Atlauta saws the citizens
are removing their yaluables further south
and that II johnson is driven from the Chatto
hOochee he will make his next stand at C.do,
Bluffs river, nine miles south of Atlanta. III
reports that the Governor of Georgia has is
sued proclamation warning the Gonfedentt
forces net to destroy Atlanta, nor the railroad
contiguous thereto, as they are the nronertv n
the State and that If necessary he will call ~,
tue Georgia militia and withdraw the Georo;a
troops from the Conftdency to CARR ont IN,
purposes of his proclamation.
Cedar Bluffs have been thoroughly fort;f,e,
by the rebels and ty them considered i'm pren
nable. ~ E1sS'
The convent ion of the Union Conserva
tive patty, called to meet at Chicago on tn
I'd prox,ino, has been postponed till the 27t
of August a