New-York tribune., 1906-12-20

The Goth Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers was
summarily discharged November 10. 1852, pur-
5g95t to m Tasmen 9m wa9 9o
The Military Secretary.
GENERAL GRANTS ORDER.
copy of an order issued by General Grant in
the Department of the Tennessee in 1S63 shows
that costs for damages done by members O the
Goth Illinois Infantry Volunteers were assessed
on the entire command. excepting those absent
at the time. after it had proved impossible to
find the individual offenders.
General Grants order as follows;
Special Field Order NO. 6 Headquarters Thr-
nessee, La Grange. Tenn. November 16, 1862
Until further orders no passes @ f VII Ps granted Ie
will anv civilian be permitted to come WITHIN our
All passes heretofore sranted inconsistent with
III. The facts having Leen officially reported 10
the 10Th Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers
did on the night of the 7th of November instant,
| at Jackson Tenn. break into the store OF q. w
amount of sSl 40 the property OF said Graham &
Co, and did cut the tent of r. b. Kent and n. A
S345, the property Of said Kent and Bass. and
property of said Kent and Bass. Of the value of
$50 q, all of which damages amount to the sum
port that Captain C. l. Page, Company d; Cap
Kennard Company /; Lieutenants Harry King.
Company B; William Seers. Company C.; John Ed
pany /; /, Bailey, company ?; victor II. Stevens,
!Gompany II; r. H. Evans C9mpany !; ChaTles Ihldes
from their commands at the time of the perpetra-
without proper cause when they should have been
present and also that Captain Orton Frisbie, Of
Captain John Tunison, Of Company G. the senior
these depredatons did exercise their authority
TO ferret out the men guilty of the offences, but
TO prevent search and discovery of the parties
really guilty and that Captain Frisbie. after the
command of the regiment. remained behind
and the names of the individual parties guilty not
having been disclosed it is thsrefoIe sto ordered:
against said regiment and the officers hereinbe-
at the time sick in hospital absent with proper
authority: that the same be charged against them
amount each is to pay noted Opposite his name
thereon, the officers 10 be assessed pro rata with
that the sum so collected Will be paid by the
commanding officer Of the regiment to the parties
2 That. Captain Orton Frisbio and Captain
violation of orders are hereby mustered out the
service of the United states, to take effect this
lsea5 S G]'eF 0' DrsJS3c[ JNo e" A. RAwL1Ss IS Grant
Assistant Adjutant General
An article from "The Charlotte IN. c. OBJ
server is given to show that in 1864 General
Lee dismissed in dishonor a battalion of the
Army OF Northern NlISIllld IOI COWdluly COLL
duct his order being as follows;
Headquarters Army of NortheEn Virginia
October - 1854
General Order No or,-..,o e,,. oor..r,,,. .on,,,..
on every battlefield from Gettysburg to the present
time; Is unworthy of place as an Organization in
to division headquarters Wednesday afternoon. at
clock and surrender rs toorS ana ne marched
the Army Of Northern Virginia regrets that there
organization who must share in this common dis
grace but he good Of the service requires it. and
Assistant Adjutant General.
An article from 'The Washington Post" is
given TO show that in 1860 General Lee, while
commanding the United States troops in Texas. |
disbanded Company G of the Sth Regiment be-
cause of the Iynching of a bartender by some
unknown men in the command
\ letter from James Wilkinson District At
torney at New Orleans, gives instances in which
soldiers, white and Negro, have aided in the
prosecution Of their fellows suspected of crime
The letter of General y. g. Nettleton of Illinois
saying that after personal investigation he be-
lieyed the action taken by the President in the
ease was the only one possible is also appended
This letter has already been published.
SECRETARY TAFTs REPORT.
In reporting to the President on the Senate
an exhaustive discussion Of the law ana the
evidence In the case. He quotes the authority
for the Presidents action. and with regard 70
the new evidence presented saws ne has ex-
amined it with Gaze and that he Toes not fod
anything contained in it which should lead to a
different de, ision to facts from that already
stated in his annual report The affidavits"
says he. contain In substance the same denials |
Of completely or knowledge by the enlisted men
that made To the inspecting officers, to-
gether with evidence intended to show that there
was an opportunity for persons not in the bat
TALON to disguise themselves il the cast-oH uni
forms Of the enlisted men, and 10 secure empty
cartridge shells and throw them on the streets
of the town The suggestion. he declared is
so grotesque in its improbability and absurdty
as hardly 10 call for discussion or comment
After stating that 1t is nor the practice OF the
inspector general, in making LEGATIONS into
questions of fact. to set out all the evidence in
sworn affidavits or d-pCsitions. Secretary Taft
quotes from the Fourth Article Of War. viii, h
he states contains the statutory dire cton I'm re-
spect to the discharge OF soldiers. The regula-
tions adopted by the President III ear wing out
this statutory provision. we'll excerpts from
various decisions of the fudge Advocate General