APPENDICES. A The following congratulatory order of General Grant was issued jast after the repulse of the Confederates in their attempt to recover Corinth, Miss., a description of which will be found on page 66. General Orders No. 88. HEADQUARTERS Department OF WEST TENNESSEE, It is with heartfelt gratitude the General commanding congratulates the armies of the West for another great victory won by them on the 3d, 4th and 5th inst, over the combined armies of Van Dorn, Price and Lovell. The enemy chose his own time and place of attack, and knowing the troops of the West as he does, and with great facilities for knowing their numbers, never would have made the attempt, except with a superior force numerically. But for the undaunted bravery of officers and soldiers who have yet to learn defeat, the efforts of the enemy must have proved successful. Whilst one division of the army, under Major-General Rosecrans, was resisting and repelling the onslaught of the rebel hosts at Corinth, another, from Bolivar, under Major-General Hurlbut, was marching upon the enemy's rear, driving in their pickets and cavairy, and attracting the attention of a large force of infantry and artillery. On the following day, under Major-General Ord, these forces advanced with unsurpassed gallantry, driving the enemy back across the Hatchie, over ground where it is almost incredible that a superior force should be driven by an inferior, capturing two of the batteries (eight guns), many hundred small arms, and several hundred prisoners. To those two divisions of the army all praise is due, and will be awarded by a grateful country. Between them there should be, and I trust are, the warmest bonds of brotherhood. Each was risking life in the same cause, and, on this occasion, risking it also to save and assist the other. No troops could do more than these separate armies. Each did all possible for it to do in the places assigned it. As in all great battles, so in this, it becomes our fate to mourn the loss of many brave and faithful officers and soldiers, who have given up their lives as a sacrifice for a great principle. The nation mourns for them. By command of JOHN A. RAWLINS, A. A. G. Major-General U. S. GRANT. B General Grant, having received repeated complaints from farmers in the vicinity of his headquarters, of the conduct of the Confederate forces while passing through their country, to prevent his troops from falling into the like disgraceful system of plunder, he issued the following order: HEADQUARTErs DepartmenNT OF THE Tennessee, LAGRANGE, TENN., November 9, 1862. [Special Field Orders No. 2.] Hereinafter stoppage will be made on muster and pay rolls against divisions for the full amount of depredations committed by any member or members of the division, unless the act can be traced either to the individuals committing them, or to the company, regiment, or brigade to which the offenders belong. In all cases the punishment will be assessed to the smallest organization containing the guilty parties. Confiscation acts were never intended to be executed by soldiers; and if they were, the general government should have full benefit of all property of which individuals are deprived. A stoppage of pay against offenders will effect this end, and, it is to be hoped, will correct this growing evil. It is not only the duty of commissioned officers to correct this evil, but of all good men in the ranks to report every violation; and it is determined now that they shall have a pecuniary interest in doing so. Assessments will also be made against commissioned officers, in the proportion of their pay proper. Where offences of the nature contemplated in this order are traced to individuals, they will be summarily punished to the full extent formerly given to garrison court-martials, or be arrested and tried by a general court-martial, according to the enormity of the offence, and the severest penalties provided imposed and executed. This order will be read on parade, before each regiment and detachment, for three successive evenings. By order of C Major-General U. S. GRANT. The Treasury Department having laid down certain rules for the guidance of those engaged in trade in the insurrectionary States after they had come within the Union lines, to prevent such traffic becoming a source of aid and comfort to the enemy, yet, notwithstanding these stringent orders, the Jewish camp followers were found to be continually engaged in illegal traffic, whereupon General Grant expelled them all from his department, issuing the following order: HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE, [General Orders No. 11.] The Jews, as a class, violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, also department orders, are hereby expelled from the department within twenty-four hours from the receipt of this order by post commanders. They will see that all this class of people are furnished with passes and required to leave; and any one returning after such notification will be arrested and held in confinement until an opportunity occurs of sending them out as prisoners, unless furnished with permits from these head-quarters. No passes will be given these people to visit headquarters for the purpose of making personal application for trade permits. By order of D Major-General Grant. On the 20th of December, 1862 (as stated on page 67), Holly Springs, Miss., was disgracefully surrendered. The commanding general expressed his displeasure in the following condemnatory order: HEADQUARTERs ThirteentH ARMY CORPS, [Special Field Orders No. 23.] (Extract.) It is with pain and mortification that the General Commanding reflects upon the disgraceful surrender of the place, with all the valuable stores it contained, on the 20th inst., and that without any resistance except by a few men, who form an honorable exception; and this, too, after warning had been given of the enemy northward, the evening previous. With all the cotton, public stores, and substantial buildings about the depot, it would have been perfectly practicable to have made, in a few hours, a defence sufficient to resist, wih a small garrison, all the cavalry force brought against them until the re-inforcements which the commanding officers was notified were marching to his relief could have reached him. The conduct of officers and men in accepting paroles, under the circumstances, is highly reprehensible, and, to say the least, thought-. less. By the terms of the Dix-Hill cartel each party is bound to take care of their prisoners, and to send them to Vicksburg, or a point on the James River, for exchange, or parole, unless some other point is mutually agreea upon by the generals commanding the opposing armies. By a refusal to be paroled, the enemy, from his inability to take care of the prisoners, would have been compelled either to have refused them unconditionally, or to have abandoned further aggressive movements for the time being, which would have made their recapture, and the discomfiture of the enemy almost certain. The prisoners paroled at this place will be collected in camp at once by the post commander, and held under close guard until their case can be reported to Washington for further instructions. Commanders throughout the department are directed to arrest and hold as above all men of their commands and all stragglers who may have accepted their paroles upon like terms. The General Commanding is satisfied that the majority of the troops who accepted a parole did so thoughtlessly, and from want of knowledge of the cartel referred to, and that in future they will not be caught in the same way. By order of JOHN A. RAWLINS, A. A. G. Major-General U. S. GRANT. E On June 2, 1865, General Grant took leave of all the armies under his command, in the following farewell address. In it he tells in glowing words of the great services which, with him, they had performed for the country. "SOLDIERS OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,-By your patriotic devotion to your country in the hour of danger and alarm, your magnificent fighting, bravery, and endurance, you have maintained the supremacy of the Union and the Constitution; overthrown all armed opposition to the enforcement of the laws, and of the proclamations forever abolishing slavery,-the cause and pretext of the Rebellion; and opened the way to the rightful authorities to restore order and inaugurate peace, on a permanent and enduring basis, on every foot of American soil. "Your marches, sieges, and battles, in distance, duration, resolution, and brilliancy of results, dim the luster of the world's past military achievements, and will be the patriot's precedent in defence of liberty and right in all time to come. In obedience to your country's call, you left your homes and families, and volunteered in its defence. Victory has crowned your valor, and secured the purpose of your patriotic hearts. And with the gratitude of your countrymen, and the highest honors a great and free nation can accord, you will soon be permitted to return to your homes and your families, conscious of having discharged the highest duty of American citizens. "To achieve these glorious triumphs, and secure to yourselves, your fellow-countrymen, and posterity the blessings of free institutions, tens of thousands of your gallant comrades have fallen, and sealed the priceless legacy with their lives. The graves of these a grateful nation bedews with tears, honors their memories, and will ever cherish and support their stricken families." F General Grant's formal acceptance of the nomination for the Presidency in 1868 was made in the following letter: WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29, 1868. TO GEN. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY, President of the National Union Re publican Convention, |