SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, June 13, 1862. William M. Clary, late second officer of the U. S. steam transport Saxon, and Stanislaus Roy, of New Orleans, on the night of the 11th of June, instant, having forged a pretended authority of the major-general commanding, being armed, in company with other evil-disposed persons under false names and in a pretended uniform of soldiers of the United States, entered the house of a peaceable citizen, No. 93 Toulouse street, about the hour of 11 o'clock in the nighttime, and then in a pretended search for arms and treasonable correspondence by virtue of such forged authority plundered said house and stole therefrom $1,885 in current bank notes, one gold watch and chain and one bosom pin. This outrage was reported to the commanding general at 11 o'clock a. m. on the 12th day of June, instant, and by his order Clary and Roy were detected and arrested on the same day and brought before the commanding general at 1 o'clock p. m. of this day, when and where it appeared by incontrovertible evidence that the facts above stated were true, and all material parts thereof were voluntarily confessed by Clary and Roy. It further appeared that Clary and Roy had before this occasion visited other houses of peaceable citizens in the nighttime and for like purposes and under like false pretenses. Brass knuckles, burglar keys and a portion of the stolen property and other property stolen from other parties were found upon the person of Roy and in his lodgings. Whereupon, after a full hearing of the defense of Clary and Roy and due consideration of the evidence, it was ordered by the commanding general that William M. Clary and Stanislaus Roy for their offenses be punished by being hanged by the neck until they are dead, and this sentence be executed upon them and each of them between the hours of 8 o'clock a. m. and 12 m. on Monday, the 16th day of June, instant, at or near the parish prison, in the city of New Orleans. The provost-marshal will cause said sentence to be executed, and for so doing this order will be his sufficient warrant. By command of Major-General Butler: R. S. DAVIS, Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. Major-General HALLECK: POPE'S HEADQUARTERS, June 13, 1862. General Asboth reports to me from Rienzi that the woods and swamps east of him are swarming with deserters from the enemy. They are making their way homeward. What is to be done with them? Had they not better be suffered to go? It would take reams of blanks to administer oaths to them. I have not hitherto meddled with them as I could not feed them. Thousands have passed on their way home and as many more are coming every day. They endeavor to pass without coming into camp. JOHN POPE. CORINTH, MISS., June 13, 1862. Col. W. W. LOWE, Commanding Fort Henry: Muster the mutinous exchanged prisoners out of service and turn them out of your camp. J. C. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant-General. LOUISVILLE, June 13, 1862. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: The release of prisoners sent from Kentucky to Camp Chase will injure us very much in Kentucky. They return emboldened and to assassinate the men who arrested them. It will endanger us in Kentucky. J. T. BOYLE, Brigadier-General, Commanding. Brig. Gen. J. G. BLUNT, HEADQUARTERS, Fort Riley, June. 13, 1862. Commanding Department of Kansas, Fort Leavenworth. GENERAL: Pursuant to instructions from headquarters Department of Kansas, dated June 10, 1862, received last night, I send to you all the information I can obtain relative to the prisoners in my charge at this post. I have no official information concerning them aside from the paroles, of which I inclose a copy. I can find no papers in the office except a list of their names. I classified them upon the statement of the officers with them. Time of capture, by whom taken and time of parole, by whom paroled, &c., is wholly from them except the paroles referred to. I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant, D. S. WHITTENHALL, Captain, Second Regiment Kansas Volunteers, Comdg. Post. [Inclosure.] I, J. A. Darby, a first lieutenant of Company I, Colonel Green's regiment of the Confederate Army, do solemnly swear that I will not bear arms against the Government of the United States, or in any other manner either directly or indirectly serve against the Government unless duly exchanged or otherwise released by proper authority from the obligations of this parole: So help me God. Attest: J. A. DARBY, Company I, Fifth Regiment Texas Mounted Volunteers. HEADQUARTERS SECOND KANSAS VOLUNTEERS, Capt. DANIEL S. WHITTENHALL, Commanding Post, Fort Riley. CAPTAIN: In reply to the communication referred to me by yourself from the Department of Kansas dated June 9 [10] I would state that in my letter to the department on the 5th instant I gave them all the information I was possessed of relative to the prisoners now at Fort Riley. I was not furnished with a copy of the parole, and in fact I have only the word of Lieutenant Johnson that one existed. Major Hayden, of Fort Larned, informed me that he had conferred fully with General Blunt upon the subject and I had supposed that the necessary information had passed around me. The regiments to which the 2 R R-SERIES II, VOL IV prisoners belonged were Texas regiments and I believe all cavalry. I sent General Blunt copies of all written documents placed in my hands. Respectfully, OWEN A. BASSETT, Lieutenant-Colonel Second Kansas Volunteers. Governor TOD, Columbus: WASHINGTON, June 14, 1862. The question in relation to prisoners is now under consideration. If they are paroled great complaint is made by the friends of our prisoners in the South. No trust can be placed in their parole. I think it is cheaper to keep them where they are than to send them back as recruits, for the rebel Government will release them by law from their parole and force all into the ranks who do not go voluntarily, so that we shall only have to fight and take them again. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. CORINTH, MISS., June 14, 1862. Major-General BUELL: The Secretary of War telegraphs that he will send an officer to Nashville to pay off and discharge all paroled prisoners at that place. H. W. HALLECK, Major-General. INDIANAPOLIS, June 14, 1862. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States: Colonel Owen, who has so efficiently commanded at the camp for prisoners, is under orders to take the field with his regiment. I have organized a military force for their place. I desire to place the camp under the supervision of Col. D. G. Rose, U. S. marshal, as commander if it can be done without vacating or interfering with his office as marshal. He is the man for the position. Please arrange this. Advise me by telegraph. O. P. MORTON, WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Maj. Gen. JOHN E. WOOL, U. S. Army, Commanding Middle Department, Baltimore, Md. SIR: It having been stated that General Pettigrew, of South [North] Carolina, taken prisoner in the late battle near Richmond, has arrived in Baltimore and is provided with comfortable rooms at Guy's Monument House, the Secretary of War directs that he be sent forthwith to Fort Warren and turned over to Colonel Dimick, commanding. I am, sir, &c., L. THOMAS, General R. E. LEE, HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Commanding Army of Northern Virginia, Richmond. SIR: Lieutenant Fellers, Company G, Thirteenth Regiment of South Carolina Infantry, is now at Fortress Monroe waiting to be exchanged, according to the information I have from the War Department, for Lieutenant Underhill, of the Eleventh Regiment of New York Volunteers, who is said to be a prisoner at Richmond. I am prepared to send Lieutenant Fellers within your lines at City Point upon an intimation from you that Lieutenant Underhill has been released. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, GEO. B. MCCLELLAN, Major-General, Commanding. No arrangement of the sort has been made and individual exchanges are declined. We will exchange generally or according to some principle, but not by arbitrary selections. G. W. RANDOLPH, Secretary of War. Major-General POPE: CORINTH, MISS., June 14, 1862. I think it will be well to make as many of the enemy give their parole as possible; still it would not be worth while to pursue those who have deserted and are on their way home. I would come and see you but have for several days been confined to my tent with the "evacuation of Corinth." H. W. HALLECK, HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI, General G. J. PILLOW, Oxford, Miss. GENERAL: I have to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 9th instant.* While putting no obstacle in the way of any peaceful citizen returning to his home if he comes with proper intentions I have uniformly declined issuing passports or personal safeguards to persons outside of our lines. I cannot make an exception in this case. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, SPECIAL ORDERS, H. W. HALLECK, Major-General, Commanding. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, No. 103. Theodore Lieb, of New Orleans, George William Craig, late first officer of the ship City of New York, and Frank Newton, late private in the Thirteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, upon their own * Reference to Pillow to Halleck, Vol. III, this Series, p. 669. confession and clear proof after a full hearing were convicted of being members of an organized gang of thieves consisting of seven or more, of which William M. Clary and Stanislaus Roy, mentioned in Special Orders, No. 98, and now under sentence of death, were principals, bound together by an oath or obligation, engaged by means of a forged authority and false uniforms in robbing the houses of divers peaceable citizens of their moneys, watches, jewelry and valuables under pretense of searching for arms and articles contraband of war, must suffer the proper penalty. At least eight houses as appears by their confession were plundered by three or more of their gang while others were watching without at various times, and a large amount of property carried off. A large portion has been since recovered. The heinousness of their offense is heightened by the contempt and disgrace brought upon the uniform, authority and flag of the United States by their fraudulent acts in making it cover their nefarious practices, and renders them peculiarly the subject of prompt and condign punishment. It is therefore ordered that George William Craig and Frank Newton for these offenses as aforesaid be hanged by the neck until they and each of them are dead, and that this sentence be executed upon them at or near the parish prison in the city of New Orleans on Monday, the 16th day of June instant, between the hours of 6 a. m. and 12 m., under the direction of the provost-marshal, and for so doing this shall be his sufficient warrant. Theodore Lieb being a youth of eighteen years, only in consideration of his tender years has his punishment commuted to confinement at hard labor on the fortifications at Ship Island or the nearest military post during the pleasure of the President of the United States. By command of Major-General Butler: R. S. DAVIS, Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. SPECIAL ORDERS, Į WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, II. Capt. Henry W. Freedley, Third Infantry, will report for such duty as he can perform to Colonel Hoffman, commissary-general of prisoners, at New York. By order of the Secretary of War: L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General. WASHINGTON, June 14, 1862. Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. DEAR SIR: May I beg that you will read the inclosed editorial from the Louisville Journal before action is taken in Buckner's case. Every word of this article is felt to be true by the loyal men of Kentucky, and I earnestly trust and pray that they may be spared the curse and humiliation of having this monster of treachery and crime turned loose to desolate and destroy them. When captured he was under indictment for treason in Kentucky, and it is felt there that the Government should not snatch him from the halter which the criminal court has in store for him. Very sincerely, yours, J. HOLT. |