Unknown, November 16, 1862
November 16, 1862.
No. 6. La Grange, Tenn., November 16, 1862. I. Until further orders no passes will be granted to any civilian to pass south of Wolf River, nor will any civilian be permitted to come
SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, HpQrs. THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
within our lines from south of saidriver. All passes heretofore granted inconsistent with this order are hereby revoked. ;
Il. The facts having been officially reported to the major-general commanding that a portion of the Twentieth Regiment Mlinois Infantry Volunteers did on the night of the 7th of November instant, at Jackson, Tenn., break into the store of G. W. Graham & Co. and take therefrom goods to the amount of $841.40, the property of said Graham & Co., and did cut the tent of R. B. Kent and N. A. Bass and take therefrom goods to the value of $345, the property of said Kent and Bass, and burn and destroy the tent and poles, also the property of said Kent and Bass of the value of $56.25, all of which damages amount to the sum of $1,242.66; and it further appearing from said report that Capt. OC. L. Paige, Company D; Capt. J. M. North, Company E; Capt. G. W. Kennard, Company I; Lieuts. Henry King, Company B; William S. Sears, Company C; John A. Edmiston, Company E; David D.Wadsworth, Company I; J.B. Bailey, Company F; Victor H. Stevens, Company H; R. N. Evans, Company I; Charles Taylor, Company I, of said regiment, were absent from their commands at the time of the perpetration of these outrages, in violation of orders and without proper cause, when they should have been present; and also that Capt. Orton Frisbie, of Company H, acting in capacity of major, and Capt. John Tunison, of Company G, the senior captain, immediately after the commission of these depredations did not exercise their authority to ferret out the men guilty of the offenses, but that on the contrary Captain Tunison interposed to prevent search and discovery of the parties really guilty, and that Captain Frisbie, after the commission of the said depredations, being in command of the regiment, remained behind twenty-four hours after the regiment marched; and the names of the individual parties guilty not having been disclosed, it is therefore ordered :
1st. That the said sum of $1,242.66 be assessed against said regiment and the officers hereinbefore named, excepting such enlisted men as were at the time sick in hospital or absent with proper authority; that the same be charged against them on the proper muster and pay rolls, and the amount each is to pay noted opposite his name thereon, the officers to be assessed pro rata with the men on the amount of their pay proper, and that the same so collected will be paid by the commanding officer of the regiment to the parties entitled to the same.
2d. That Capt. Orton Frisbie and Capt. John Tunison, of the Twentieth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, for willful neglect of duty and violation of orders, are hereby mustered out of the service of the United States, to take effect this day.
By order of Brig. Gen. U.S. Grant:
JNO. A. RAWLINS, Assistant Adjutant-General.