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field officer of the regiment to be tried and punished for the offense. The 40th Article of War further recites, that "Every captain of a troop or company is charged with the arms, accoutrements, ammunition, clothing, or other warlike stores belonging to the troop or company under his command, which he is to be accountable for to his Colonel in case of their being lost, spoiled or damaged, not by unavoidable accidents or on actual service."

At the first Sunday morning inspection in every month an inspection of the cartridge boxes will be made by the regimental commander, who will require the company commanders to pay the cost price of every round deficient in their respective companies, and not "lost, spoiled or damaged by unavoidable accident, or on actual service," and will, moreover, bring the delinquent officers before a General Court Martial to answer for their neglect of duty.

IV. Second Lieutenant EDWARD S. BERRY, 156th regiment New York Volunteers, having tendered his resignation, assigning as the cause ill health and inability to perform military duty, and that he is "opposed to the President's Emancipation Proclamation," and the said Lieutenant BERRY being represented by his regimental and brigade commanders as worthless and incompetent, he is hereby dishonorably discharged from the military service of the United States, subject to the approval of the President.

Hereafter all officers who go out of their way to assign as a reason for desiring to quit the service of their country in the face of the enemy, their disapproval of an act of the Executive for which they are in no manner responsible, will be placed by their immediate commanders in close arrest, and brought to trial before a Genera Court Martial, upon charges preferred under the 5th, 6th and 99th Articles of War for using contemptuous or disrespectful words against the President of the United States, for contempt or disrespect towards their commanding officer, and for conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline. The severest punishments awarded by the Courts in such cases will be rigidly enforced by the Commanding General.

BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BANKS:

RICHARD B. IRWIN,

Lieutenant Colonel, Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:

Aide-de-Camp.

GENERAL ORDERS

No. 19.

HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, February 26, 1863.

I. Before a General Court Martial, which convened at Camp Parapet, La., pursuant to General Orders No. 4, from the Headquarters, United States Forces, Carrollton, La., of January 9th, 1863, and of which Colonel E. P. CHAPIN, 116th Regiment New York Volunteers, is President, were arraigned and tried :

1. Captain Edwin H. Boyd, 110th Regiment New York Volunteers, on the following charges and specifications:

CHARGE FIRST.

"Conduct to the prejudice of Good Order and Military Discipline."

SPECIFICATION-"In this, that he, Captain Edwin H. Boyd, Company F, 110th Regiment New York Volunteers, on or about the 6th day of January, 1863. at Camp Mansfield, Carrollton, La., while Lieut. Chancey Gardner, of the same regiment, officer of the guard, in the execution of his office, was properly in the act of placing hand-cuffs on one Private Rowland, a prisoner in the guard-tent, in the presence and hearing of the guard, prisoner, and other privates, did enter said tent and wrongfully and forcibly interfere with the said officer of the guard, for the purpose of preventing said act, and in so doing did then and there, with force and violence, assault, and with his hands lay hold of and thrust aside the said officer of the guard, at the same time, in effect, threatening him, the said officer, to knock down and whip, and saying, in substance and effect, that hand-cuffs should not be put on Rowland, or one of his men at all, and subsequently saying in effect, that the hand cuffs should not be put on Rowland in the manner directed by said officer, and did then and there, for the purpose aforesaid, use other force and violence, and violent and threatening language, towards the said officer of the guard, and by means of the premises, did prevent the said officer from securing the said prisoner in the manner he directed and deemed necessary."

CHARGE SECOND.

"Mutinous Conduct."

SPECIFICATION 1st-" In this, that he, Captain Edwin H. Boyd, Company F, 110th Regiment New York Volunteers, did begin and attempt to excite a mutiny among the privates of Company F, and other privates of the 110th Regiment, in the furance of which he, the said Captain Edwin H. Boyd, did personally and forcibly

resist the authority of Lieut. Chancey Gardner, the officer of the guard, while in the discharge of his duty, in confining Private Rowland in the guard-tent of the 110th Regiment New York Volunteers, at Camp Mansfield, Carrollton, La., on or about the 6th day of January, 1863."

SPECIFICATION 2d-"In this, that he, Captain Edwin H. Boyd, Company F, 110th Regiment New York Volunteers, did use violent, mutinous and intimidating language towards the officer of the guard, in the hearing of a large number of the privates in and near the guard-tent of the 110th Regiment New York Volunteers, on or about the 6th day of January, 1863, calculated to excite the privates of Company F, and other privates, to mutiny, saying, in substance and effect, the treatment of a prisoner (Rowland, a member of his company) was carried too far, and that he would 'protect him,' and that the hand-cuffs, should not be placed upon the said prisoner, and further, in effect, saying, that the officer of the guard was placing hand-cuffs on said Rowland in a spirit of retaliation, because Lieutenant Hunter, of Company F, when officer of the guard at Patterson Park, Baltimore, had placed hand-cuffs on two men of Company K, of which company he, the said Gardner, the officer of the guard, was an officer. This at Camp Mansfield, Carrollton, La., January 6th, 1863,??.

CHARGE THIRD.

Conduct unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman."

SPECIFICATION "In this, that he, Captain Edwin H. Boyd, Company F, 110th Regiment New York Volunteers, did, in the camp of the said 110th Regiment New York Volunteers, at Carrollton, La., on or about January 6th, 1863, outside the guard-tent, say, in the presence of from fifty to one hundred privates, in effect, that any man who would touch a prisoner was a damned coward, and he could whip him; this was repeated several times, with other similar language. That at the time and place aforesaid, and at divers other times and places, in the presence of other commissioned officers of his company and many of the privates of his company, he said, in effect, that had he been present when the officer of the guard commenced to hand-cuff a prisoner in the guard-tent, named Rowland, he would have knocked him down; further, that on the parade ground, in effect, he said, in presence of the men of his company, or a part of them, that the officer of the guard would probably prefer charges against him for protecting Private Rowland while in the guard-tent, and if so, he would prefer charges in retaliation."

To all of which charges and specifications the accused pleaded-" Not Guilty." The Court, after mature deliberation on the evidence adduced, finds the accused as follows:

Of the specification of the first charge--" Guilty."

Of the first charge-" Guilty."

Of the first specification of the second charge-Guilty.”

Of the second specification of the second charge" Guilty.”

And does therefore sentence him, Captain Edwia II. Boyd, 110th Regiment New York Volunteers, "to be dismissed from the service of the United States, and to forfeit all pay and allowances that now are or may hereafter be due him."

2. Captain James H. Slade, 38th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, on the following charges and specifications:

CHARGE FIRST.

"Disobedience of Orders."

SPECIFICATION" In this, that he, Captain James H. Slade, 38th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, did, on or about the 12th day of January, 1863, receive and permit to remain in his tent or quarters, a woman, not his wife. This at Camp Kearney, Carrollton, La., in disobedience of General Orders No. 38, 1862, Department of the Gulf."

CHARGE SECOND.

"Conduct unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman.”

SPECIFICATION 1st-" In this, that he, the said Captain James H. Slade, 38th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, did, on or about the 12th day of January, 1863, receive into his tent, in the camp of his regiment, two women of disreputable character, he, the said Slade, knowing them to be such, and did then and there permit them to remain in said tent a considerable time, to wit, nearly two hours, and while they so remained, did then and there permit them to drink wines or other liquors, and to sing vulgar and secession songs, such songs being then and there sung at his (the said Slade's) own request, without rebuke from him. This at Camp Kearney, Carrollton, La."

SPECIFICATION 2d- "In this, that he, the said Captain James H. Slade, 38th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, did, on or about the 12th day of January, 1863, while two women of disreputable character occupied his tent, send invitations to several of his brother officers to visit his tent, not informing said officers whom they were to meet; and furthermore, did then and there make use of his Orderly Sergeant to convey such invitations. This at Camp Kearney, Carrollton, La." targe

SPECIFICATION 3d--" In this, that he, the said Captain James H. Slade, 38th Regi ment Massachusetts Volunteers, when two women of disreputable character were singing secession and disloyal songs in his tent, at his (the said Slade's) own request, and within the hearing of enlisted men of his regiment, did excite a feeling of indignation among the aforesaid enlisted men, which caused them to assemble in crowds around the tent of the said Slade, and give utterance to their sentiments in loud cries and tones, and strong language, rushed from his tent with a drawn sword

in his hand, and in a violent and abusive manner did address the said excited and outraged soldiers, aud call them cowards, saying, if you were not cowards, you would have been in a fight long ago,' or words of like import; and further, in a boastful and contemptuous tone, cried, 'I can lead you where you dare not follow,' or words of like import, also saying that he, with fifty good men, could clean them all out, or words to that effect; thus, by insulting language to his inferiors, creating additional disturbance in the camp. All this at Camp Kearney, Carrollton, La., on or about the 12th day of January, 1863."

SPECIFICATION 4th" In this, that he, the said Captain James H. Slade, 38th Regiment Massachusetts Valunteers, did, when in the quarters of his commanding officer, answering for his disgraceful behavior in permitting two women of disreputable character to remain in his tent and to sing secession songs and drink wine, on or about the 12th day of January, 1863, attempt to palliate his unofficerlike and ungentlemanlylike conduct, by meanly implicating his brother officers, volunteering unasked the names of the officers who were in the tent during the time when the above described scenes occurred, although those officers, some of whom had been invited to come to his tent, he knowing the character of his guests, and they being ignorant as to whom they were to meet. All this at Camp Kearney, Carrollton, on or about the 12th day of January, 1863."

To all of which charges and specifications the accused pleaded-" Not Guilty." The Court, after mature deliberation on the evidence adduced, finds the accused as follows:

Of the specification of the first charge-" Not Guilty."

Of the first charge-" Not Guilty."

Of the first specification of the second charge—“ Guilty."

Of the second specification of the second charge-" Guilty."

Of the third specification of the second charge- Guilty.”.

Of the fourth specification of the second charge-Not Guilty."

Of the second charge-" Guilty."

And does therefore sentence him, Captain James H. Slade, 38th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers," to be dismissed from the service of the United States."

II. The proceedings in the above cases have been submitted to the Major General Commanding, in accordance with the Act approved December 24th, 1861, entitled, "An act relative to courts martial in the Army." The interests of the service prevent him from returning them for revision, the presence with their regiments of the officers composing the Court being absolutely necessary. But he takes this occasion to call attention to paragraph 893, Revised Army Regulations, requiring the record to be clearly and legibly written, " as far as practicable, without erasures or interlineations," which provision has been most unnecessarily violated.