Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-09-02

General George IL. Thomas, on account OF
the expiration of its term of service, relieved
from duty in the field near Kingston, Ga,
on the 21st day Of May, 1864, which order
is in the following words and terms, viz:
HEADo'Rs Dept oFTHE CUMBERLAND,)
t4sa CAMP ON Two-MILE RUN, GA,
May 20, lS64.)
Special Field Orders No. 1891
Extract.
l. The term of service of the Ninth and
Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry having near
ly expired, these regiments are hereby re-
lieved from duty in this department, and
will proceed by railroad to Cincinnati, Ohio,
where they willreport to the Superintendent
of the Recruiting Service for that State, to
be mustered out of the service of the United
States.
The commanding officers will furnish
these headquarters with descriptive lists
and accounts of pay and clothing of all men,
whose terms of service do not expire with
the regiment preparatory to their being
transferred to some other Ohio regiment.
Lieutenant Colonel L. G. Easton, Chief
Quartermaster of the Department, will di-
rect what disposition shall be made of the
transportation and equipagc of those regi-
ments.
They will turn in their arms and equip
ments to Lieutenant w. A. Marye, Depot
Ordnance officer at Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The Quartermaster Department will fur
nish the necessary transportation.
By command of Maj.-Gen. Thomas.
w. d. WHIPPLE A. A. G.
To Commanding officer 9th o. vi.
WHEREAS, In compliance with this order
duplicate lists of the names of all those SOL
diers Of the said regiment, whose terms of
service would not expire with the 9th day
of May, 1864, and who numbered in all fit
ty-six, were duly made out and forwarded
as ordered; and,
WHEREAS, Colonel Gustave Kemmerling,
then in command of the 9th Regiment Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, did not receive any Or
der either from department, corps, division,
or brigade headquarters, directing him how
to dispose of these men; and, .
WHEREAS, There was, in the absence of
any orders from the War Department reg
ulating the course to be taken as to recruits
| of a regiment whose term expires while in
the field, such an uncertainty of opinion
| prevailing among the officers in the front,
| that at the same time the Colonel COM
manding I'd Brigade, Sd Division, 18th A.
| G. Ito which brigade the 9th Volunteers was
| attached), refused the acceptance of the
men when offered him by Col. Kammerling,
and the Commissary of Musters for said Sd
Division, when asked for, gave it as his GER
tain opinion that all recruits had to be taken
to the place of muster-Out; and,
WHEREAS, The said fifty-six soldiers were
taken with the regiment by Col. G. Kam-
merling to Camp Dennison, Ohio, and at
that place were turned over to Capt. B. j.
Spellman, 10th Ohio Cavalry, with their de-
scriptive lists and accounts of pay and
| clothing, as soon as an order to that effect
was received from Col. j. II. Potter, Super
intendent of the Recruiting Service at Co
lumbus, o., which took place on the 9TH day
of June, 1854; and,
WHEREAS, Col. Gustave Kammerling was,
on the 18th day Of June, 1854, honorably
discharged and mustered out of the service
by Capt. James Thompson, I'd us. Artille-
ry; and,
WHEREAS, The President of the United
States, Abraham Lincoln, has afterward, as
the public papers are by good authority
informed, changed such order of honorable
discharge and muster out so as to direct the
| dishonorable dismissal of Col. G. Hammer
| ling on the ground that he had violated the
orders of the War Department by taking to
the State of Ohio recruits and veterans,
whose term had not expired; and, 10
WHEREAS, Such order of dishonorable dis
missal of Col. G.. Kammerling has been is
sued by the President without giving the
Colonel the least chance for hearing or de-
fense, is based on supposition totally un-
true, and without foundation in fact and
does gross injustice to one of the dbleSt,
tr1est ad most patriotic soldiers of the Union
army, therefore be it HHe-
Resolued, That the order changing the
muster-outof Col. Kammerling to dishon-
orable discharge was made on presentation
of facts to the President in direct opposi-
ton to the truth.
ID tha l,,fxr nf fI,a
President to first inform himself of the
truth or falsity of the charge, either by
Military Commission, or by a request to the
accused to explain his conduct in the mat
ter.
Resolued, That the President of the Unit
ed States be requested to revoke said order,
or at least give Col. Kammerling an Oppor-
tunity to defend himself. %
Resolued, That unless said order is revok-
ed, or fair trial had, we, the undersigned,
late officers of the 9th Ohio Voluteer Infan-
try, hold ourselves in duty bound to openly
and publicly denounce the order of the
President, dishonorably dismissing Col. G.
Kammerling, of the 9th o. V. l., as most
wanton and flagrant usurpation of power,
and an infamous act of injustice, by which
every officer and soldier OF the late 9th o.
v. /. regiment must feel himself insulted,
and that in their opinion no man could
hereafter honorably enlist in the United
States army, If, after man has done his
duty on the battle-fields and in camps, for
three years, as Col. Kammerling did, he is to
be dishonorably dismissed on such trivial
and unfounded accusations.
Resolued, That copies OF these resolutions
be sent to the President, Secretary of War,
the principal officers of the Cumberland
Army, to Col. G. Kammerling, and also to
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