The President concurs in the Opinion of the Court that Lieutenant Colonel Eddy and Captain Martin were not guilty of culpable carelessness, and that as they acted in good faith no further action should be taken by military courts. The President desires, however, to call the attention of the disbursing and other officers of the Army to the minor degree of carelessness of which these officers were guilty-in the want of personal supervision of vouchers, and in not making it their duty to see that the checks did actually reach the persons in whose favor they were drawn. The chiefs of bureaus will prescribe such regulations as will prevent the recurrence of such loose methods of business in the future. Lieutenant Colonel Eddy will be assigned to his appropriate duties as soon as the Quartermaster General shall consider his accounts so far settled as no longer to require his presence in this city. J. D. CAMERON, Secretary of War. III...The Court of Inquiry of which Colonel O. B. WILLCOX, 12th Infantry, is President is dissolved. BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS No. 11. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, By direction of the Secretary of War the following regulation is published to the Army:— Hereafter General Officers above the grade of Brigadier General will be allowed, at their option, to wear the sash across the body from the left shoulder to the right side. The sash may be of buff silk and gold thread. BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. No. 12. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, February 19, 1877. The laws for the establishment of a military prison, and the regulations for its government, are published in accordance with the following orders of the Secretary of War: "Under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1873, establishing the military prison, the following regulations for its government, prepared by the Board of Commissioners, are hereby adopted, to take effect the 1st proximo. "They will be published in General Orders, together with the laws on the subject, and will be strictly enforced and obeyed." BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. |