100

market price. A duplicate of said receipt shall be at once forwarded to the chief of the
department to which the orricer by whom it is executed is attached.

No. 6. If any person shall remove or conceal property necessary for the use of the
army, or attempt to do so, the officers hereinbefore mentioned will cause such property,
and all other property belonging to such person that may be required by the army, to be
seized, and the officer seizing the same will forthwith report to the chief of this department
the kind, quantity and market price of the property so seized, and the name of the owner.
BY COMMAND OF GENERAL R. E. LEE.

R. H. CHILTON, A. A. and I. G.
Lieutenant-General R. S. Ewell, Commanding Second Army Corps.

On June 27 General Lee issued his second order, and it is certainly in great
contrast with anything that had ever emanated from a Federal General in
Virginia or any other one of the invaded Southern States :

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,

CHAMBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, June 27, 1863.
General Orders No. 73.

The commanding General has observed with satisfaction the conduct of the troops on
the march, and confidently anticipated results commensurate with the high spirit they have
manifested. No troops could have displayed greater fortitude, or better performed the
arduous marches of the past ten days. Their conduct in other respects has, with few excep-
tions, been in keeping with their character as soldiers, and entitles them to approbation
and praise.

There have, however, been instances of forgetfulncss on the part of some that they have
in keeping the yet unsullied reputation of the army, and that the duties exacted of us by
civilization and Christianity are not less obligatory in the country of the enemy than in
our own. The commanding General considers that no greater disgrace could befall the army,
and through it our whole people, than the perpetration of the barbarous outrages, upon the
innocent and defenceless, and the wanton destruction of private property, that have marked
the course of the enemy in our own country. Such proceedings not only disgrace the
perpetrators and all connected with them, but are subversive of the discipline and efficiency
of the army and destructive of the ends of our present movement. It must be remembered
that we make war only upon armed men, and that we cannot take vengeance for the wrongs
our people have suffered without lowering ourselves in the eyes of all whose abhorrence has
been excited by the atrocities of our enemy, and offending against Him to Whom vengeance
belongeth, without Whose favor and support our efforts must all prove in vain.

The commanding General, therefore, earnestly exhorts the troops to abstain with most
scrupulous care from unnecessary or wanton injury to private property ; and he enjoins
upon all officers to arrest and bring to summary punishment all who shall in any way offend
against the orders on this subject. R. E. LEE, General.