lence, unless in nccessary self defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States, to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one [L. S.] By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. General Orders, No. 2. L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, January 3, 1863 The Military Department of the East is hereby created, to consist of the New England States and the State of New York. Headquarters New York city. Major General JoHN E. WOOL, U. S. Army, is assigned to the command of the Department of the East. The following Act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned: [PUBLIC-No. 5.] AN ACT to facilitate the discharge of disabled soldiers from the army, and the inspec-. tion of convalescent camps and hospitals. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there shall be added to the present medical corps of the army eight medical inspectors, who shall, immediately after the passage of this act, be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, without regard to their rank when so selected, but with sole regard to qualifications, and who shall have the rank, pay and emoluments now authorized by law to officers of that grade. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the officers of the medical inspector's department shall be charged, in addition to the duties now assigned to them by existing laws, with the duty of making regular and frequent inspections of all military general hospitals and convalescent camps, and shall, upon each such inspection, designate to the surgeon in charge of such hospitals or camps all soldiers who may be, in their opinion. fit subjects for discharge from the service, on surgeon's certificate of disability, or sufficiently recovcred to be returned to their regiments for duty, and shall see that such soldiers are discharged, or so returned. And the medical inspecting officers are hereby empowered, under such regulations as may be hereafter established, to direct the return to duty or the discharge from service, as the case may be, of all soldiers designated by them. Approved December 27, 1862. I. By direction of the President, Assistant Surgeon G. E. Pattee, U. S. Volunteers, is dropped from the rolls of the army, for absence without leave, to take effect October 14, 1862. II. By direction of the President, Additional Paymaster Israel Townsend, is hereby discharged the service on account of incapacity and misconduct; and being illiterate, inefficient and unfit for active duty in the field. III. By direction of the President, Surgeon Thomas Sim, U. S. Volunteers, is dismissed the service for disobedience of orders. IV. So much of "General Orders," No. 195, of November 24, 1862, as dismisses Colonel Joseph W. Bell, 13th Illinois Cavalry, is, by direction of the President, hereby revoked. V.-So much of "General Orders," No. 195, of November 24, 1862, as dismisses Captain David F. Foley, 95th Pennsylvania Volunteers, on the report of Lieutenant Colonel E. Hall, the Regimental Commander, is, by direction of the President, hereby revoked, the said Captain Foley having been previously honorably discharged on tender of his resignation. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 5. War Dep'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, January 5, 1863. By direction of the President, the troops in the Department of the Gulf will constitute the Nineteenth Army Corps, to date from December 14, 1862, and Major General N. P. Banks is assigned to the command. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY of War: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General, General Orders, No. 6. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, I.-At a General Court Martial, which convened at Fredericksburgh, Virginia, on the 12th day of August, 1862, pursuant to "General Orders, No. 6, dated August 11, 1862, from the Headquarters Ninth Army Corps, and of which Lieutenant Colonel Hiram Appelman, 8th Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, was President, was arraigned and tried Private Edwin Gallagher, of Company E, 4th Rhode Island Volunteers. CHARGE 1st.-"Violation of the 7th Article of War." Specification "In this; that he, the said Edwin Gallagher, of Company E, and of the 4th Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, did, by threats and boisterous language, create a sedition in the camp of said 4th Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, on or about the 1st day of August, 1862, at or near Newports News, Virginia." CHARGE 2d. "Violation of the 9th Article of War." Specification 1st-"In this; that he, the said Edwin Gallagher, on the 1st of August, 1862, a Private in Company E, 4th Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, between the hours of 94 and 12 p. m., at or near Newports News, Virginia, did seize or grasp W. H. P. Steere, Colonel Commanding the 4th Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, and attempt violence against his superior officer, then and there being in the execution of his office." Specification 2d-"In this; that he, the said private Edwin Gallagher, Company E, 4th Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, on the 1st of August, between the hours of and 12 p. m., at or near Newports News, did disobey the lawful commands of his superior officer, by a continued disregard of orders to stop tumultuous noise and profanity, made use of by him, the said Gallagher, as aforesaid." Specification 3d-"In this; that he, the said Private Edwin Gallagher, Company É, 4th Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, on the 1st of August, between the hours of 9 and 12 p. m., at or near Newports News, Virginia, did, when ordered by Captain' Buffum, commanding Company B, 4th Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, and acting, by orders from Headquarters of said 4th Regiment, as Officer of the Day, to go to his quarters and stop all noise, refuse to obey." Specification 4th-"In this; that he, the said Private Edwin Gallagher, Company E, 4th Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, on the 1st of August, between the hours of 9 and 12 p. m., at or near Newports News, Virginia, did refuse to go to his quarters, but defiantly disobeyed the orders of W. H. P. Steere, commanding said 4th Regiment of Rhode Island Volunteers." To which charges and specifications the prisoner pleaded as follows: To Specification of 1st Charge, "Not Guilty." To 1st Charge, "Not Guilty." To 1st Specification of 2d Charge, "Not Guilty. To 2d Specification of 2d Charge, "Guilty." To 3d Specification of 2d Charge, "Not Guilty." To 4th Specification of 2d Charge, “Not Guilty." To 2d Charge, "Not Guilty." FINDING. The Court, after mature deliberation upon the testimony adduced, finds the accused as follows: And the Court does therefore sentence him, the said Private Edwin Gallagher, of Company E, 4th Rhode Island Volunteers, "To be shot until he be dead;" all the members of the Court concurring in the sentence. II. In accordance with the 5th section of the act approved July 17, 1862, the proceedings and sentence in the case of Private Edwin Gallagher, have been submitted to the President of the United States, and are approved. But in consideration of the recommendation of the Court, and of the General commanding the Army of the Potomac, the sentence of death is remitted, and the prisoner will be dishonorably discharged the service, with a forfeiture of all pay. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 7. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, January 7, 1863. The following Act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned: [PUBLIC-No. 6.] AN ACT to improve the organization of the Cavalry forces. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter each regiment of Cavalry organized in the United States service may have two assistant surgeons, and each company or troop of Cavalry shall have from sixty to seventy-eight privates. Approved January 6, 1863. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 8. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, By "General Orders," No. 97, dated "Headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, November 19, 1862," Capt. Franko, of the 12th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, having been tried and found guilty by a Military Commission of receiving bribes for granting passes to disloyal persons, and sentenced by the Commission to be dismissed from the service of the United States, the said sentence is approved by Major General Butler, Commanding the Department. The President of the United States confirms the order of Major General Butler dismissing Captain Franko, from its date. By direction of the President, the Army of the Cumberland, under the command of Major General Rosecrans, is divided into three Army Corps, to be known as the Fourteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first. Major General G. H. Thomas is assigned to the command of the Fourteenth Corps; Major General A. McD. McCook, to the command of the Twentieth; and E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 10. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, January 10, 1863. I-The following officers and men have been declared duly exchanged as prisoners of war, since the announcement in "General Orders," No. 191, of November 19, 1862: 1. All the officers and enlisted men who were delivered at City Point, Va., from the 11th November, 1862, to the 1st of January, 1863. 2. All officers and enlisted men captured at Harper's Ferry. 3. All officers and enlisted men paroled at Winchester, November 15, and 26, 1862, and December 1, 1862. 4. All officers and enlisted men paroled by Colonel Imboden, November 9, 1862. 5. All officers and enlisted men paroled at Goldsborough, N. C., May 22, 1862, and delivered at Washington, North Carolina. 6. All captures of officers, enlisted men, and camp followers, in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and Louisiana, up to January 1, 1863. 7. All captures of officers, enlisted men, and camp followers, in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and Florida, up to December 10, 1862. 8. All captures on the sea, the sea and gulf coasts, and the waters flowing into the same, up to December 10, 1862. II. The paroled troops herein declared to be exchanged will be, without delay, equipped for the field and forwarded to the armies to which they belong, from posts or camps wherever they may be collected. All officers and enlisted men absent, in virtue of being on parole, will, now that they are exchanged, immediately return to duty with their proper commands. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: General Orders,} No. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, By direction of the President, Colonel R. C. Murphy, 8th Wisconsin Volunteers, is hereby dismissed the service of the United States, for allowing his command to be surprised at Holly Springs, Mississippi, without having taking proper steps to protect his post, or repulse the enemy, and his troops having been found in bed at the time of BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: attack. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. General Orders, } No. 12. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, January 13, 1863 By direction of the President, Captain George T. Woodson, 16th U. S. Infantry, is hereby dismissed the service of the United States. The district of Western Arizona is hereby assigned to the Department of New Mexico. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: General Orders,} No. 14. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, January 16, 1863. The Military Post in Kansas known as FORT SCOTT, is hereby re-established and announced as a permanent post. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 15. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, I.-Assistant Surgeon A. J. Baxter, U. S. Army, is, by direction of the President, hereby dismissed the service of the United States. II.--So much of "General Orders," No. 208, of December 17, 1862, as directs the muster-out of service of Additional Paymaster Joseph A. Nunes, is, by direction of the President, revoked. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 16. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, By direction of the President, the dismissal of Captain Job B. Stocton, 1st Kansas Volunteers, in "General Orders," No. 195, of November 24, 1862, is hereby revoked, it now appearing that Captain Stocton was not absent without leave, as reported; but detained, by unauthorized authority, on duty in a department to which he did not belong. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 17. WAR DEP'T, Adjutant General's Office, I. At a Military Commission, which convened at Thibodeaux, Louisiana, on the 18th day of November, 1862, pursuant to General Orders, No. 25, dated November 17, 1862, from Headquarters Reserve Brigade, near Thibodeaux, Louisiana, and of which Lieutenant Colonel R. B. Merritt, 75th New York Volunteers, was President, was arraigned and tried. › Granson, or Granville, a colored man. CHARGE." Attempt at rape." Specification-" In this; that he, Granson, or Granville, did, by force and violence, attempt to have carnal knowledge of the body of Miss Louisa Duferne, against her will." |