so long as there is hope that the excesses of the enemy may be checked or prevented by retribution on the commissioned officers, who have the power to avoid guilty action by refusing service under a Government which seeks their aid in the perpetration of such infamous barbarities:

VII. Therefore, it is ordered that Major-General Pope, Brigadier-General Steinwehr and all commissioned officers serving under their respective commands, be, and they are hereby, specially declared to be not entitled to be considered as soldiers, and therefore not entitled to the benefit of the cartel for the parole of future prisoners of war. Pope or Brigadier-General Steinwehr or of any commissioned officer serving under them, the captive so taken shall be held in close confinement so long as the orders aforesaid shall continue in force and unrepealed by the competent military authorities of the United States, and that in the event of the murder of any unarmed citizen or inhabitant of this Confederacy by virtue or under pretext of any of the orders hereinbefore recited, whether with or without trial, whether under the pretense of such citizen being a spy or hostage, or any other pretense, it shall be the duty of the commanding general of the forces of this Confederacy to cause to be immediately hung, out of the commissioned officers prisoners as aforesaid, a number equal to the number of our own citizens thus murdered by the enemy.

By order:

S. COOPER.

Adjutant and Inspector General.

[Form 2.]

Abstract of provisions issued from the 1st of August 1862, to the 17th of August 1862, to prisoners of war stationed [confined] at Lynchburg, Va., by Captain J. V. L. Rodgers, acting assistant quartermaster and assistant commissary of subsistence.

(NOTE. - The fractional parts of a pound must be stated in reducing to bulk.)

Date. Number Number of Number Number of Commencin

of men of women days g

return drawn for

Aug. 1. 1 2,502 2 3 Aug. 1

Aug. 4 2 2,502 2 5 Aug. 4

Aug. 8 3 2,523 2 2 Aug. 9

Aug. 11 4 1,025 2 5 Aug. 11

Aug. 16 5 1,031 2 2 Aug. 15

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

number of

rations.

R a t I o n s.

Date. Finding- Mutton Fresh Bacon Flour

beef

Aug. 1. Aug. 3 --- 2,504 5,008 7,512

Aug. 4 Aug. 8 --- 3,753 8,767 12,520

Aug. 8 Aug. 10 --- 2,525 2,525 5,050

Aug. 11 Aug. 15 676 722 3,737 5,135

Aug. 16 Aug. 17 --- --- 2,066 2,066

Total . . . . 676 9,504 22,103 32,283

number of

rations.

R a t I o n s.

Date. Rice Sugar Candles Soap Salt.

Aug. 1. 5,000 7,512 --- --- 7,512

Aug. 4 3,500 2,504 --- 5,008 12,520

Aug. 8 --- 2,525 --- 1,213 5,050

Aug. 11 1,750 --- 2,566 5,000 5,135

Aug. 16 --- --- 800 --- 2,066

Total 10,250 12,541 3,366 11,221 32,283

number of

rations.

Bbls. lbs. oz. Bush. qts.

Mutton 676 0 ---

Fresh beef 9,504 0 ----

Bacon 11,056 8 ----

Flour 185 58 6 ----

Rice 1,025 0 ----

Sugar 1,504 14

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Candles 45 15 ----

Soap 449 0 ----

Salt

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20 5

REMARKS. - Fifteen hundred prisoners of war sent to Richmond August 10; 1,033 sent to Richmond on 16th.