General ORDERS No.
4.}
I. No persons except
those in the employ of the United States Government, and loyal citizens, or
those who have taken the oath of allegiance, will hereafter be permitted to
pass the picket-lines at any post within this district.
II. No goods or
merchandise of any kind will hereafter be allowed to pass outside the lines,
except the necessary supplies for planters working lands leased from the United
States, and limited quantities to citizens who have taken the oath of
allegiance. No citizen will be allowed to take out supplies for any persons
except himself and his immediate family, and in no case will more than thirty
days' supplies be taken out.
III. The
provost-marshal at every post will keep an accurate record of every pass
granted, and of all permits approved by himself, or the post commander. Books
for this purpose will be supplied by the quartermaster's department and the
records will be kept open for the inspection of any officer of the Government,
at all hours between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. A record will be kept by the officers of
the picket-line of all passes and permits presented, which record will be
compared with that of the provost-marshal, and any discrepancy will at once be
reported.
IV. All trade stores
within the district at points not garrisoned by at least one regiment of troops
will at once be discontinued. No goods or merchandise will be landed at any
point on the river within the limits of the district which is not garrisoned by
troops, except necessary supplies for planters working land leased from the
Government, in which case the goods may be landed under cover of a gun-boat at
the nearest practicable point to the plantation.
V. All boats ladened
with merchandise detected in landing in violation of this order will be seized
and brought to this post.
VI. All persons
charged with the duties of imposing upon citizens, or of seizing property for
the Government, will keep an account of all such transactions, specifying the
persons from whom the money or property was received and the disposition made
of it. This account will be kept open for the inspection of any officer of the
Government, or of any citizen who has been taxed, or from whom property has
been taken.
VII. No Government
wagon, transport, or vessel of any kind will be used in bringing cotton or
other stores to market, except in cases where such stores have been seized for
the Government.
VIII. All clerks and
citizen employes in every department whose services are not absolutely
necessary will at once be discharged.
IX. No rations will
be issued, nor property of any kind transferred to citizens to reimburse them
for losses sustained by the operations of the war. The persons to whom damages
are to be paid, and the amounts due, are questions which no military officer is
authorized to adjust.
X. It is the duty of
every person in the employ of the Government and of every loyal citizen to aid
in the correction of all evils. Any practice on the part of either civil or
military officers or citizens which tends to aid the enemy or defraud or injure
the Government should be promptly reported, and sustained by such proof as will
enable the commanding general to correct the evil, and bring the guilty parties
to punishment.
By command of Maj.
Gen. H. W. Slocum:
SOURCE: The War of
the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 39, Part 2 (Serial No. 78), p. 30-1
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