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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 21 : General Polk and Columbus, Kentucky . (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc . 11 . intelligence to the enemy. (search)
Doc. 11. intelligence to the enemy.
war Department, Adjutant-General's office, Washington, August 26, 1861.
By the fifty-seventh article of the act of Congress entitled An act for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States, approved April 10, 1806, holding correspondence with or giving intelligence to the enemy, either directly or indirectly, is made punishable by death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a court-martial.
Public safety requires strict enforcement of this article.
It is therefore ordered that all correspondence and communication, verbally or by writing, printing, or telegraphing, respecting operations of the army, or military movements on land or water, or respecting the troops, camps, arsenals, intrenchments, or military affairs, within the several military districts, by which intelligence shall be, directly or indirectly, given to the enemy, without the authority and sanction of the Ge
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 1 (search)
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 7 : Confederate armies and generals (search)
Articles of War.
In the United States, Congress only can make articles of war. These have been based on the English articles and mutiny act. They were first adopted by the Continental Congress. July 30, 1775, and extended March 20, 1776; enacted again, with little alteration, April 10, 1806.
Some additions were made from 1861-65, and in 1874 they were codified as section 1,342 of the Revised statutes of the United States.
An act of Congress provides that the Articles of War shall be read before the officers and men of the army and navy at frequent and regular periods.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gates , Horatio 1728 -1806 (search)
Polk, Leonidas 1806-
Military officer; born in Raleigh, N. C., April 10, 1806; graduated at West Point in 1827; ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church; and was
Leonidas Polk. chosen bishop of the diocese of Louisiana in 1841.
In 1861 he became a majorgeneral in the Confederate army, in which capacity he was distinguished for his zeal and activity.
He first appeared conspicuous as a soldier in the occupation of Columbus, Ky., late in 1861.
He commanded a division at the battle of Shiloh (April, 1862), and was in the great battie at Stone River at the close of that year, when he was lieutenant-general.
He led a corps at the battle of Chickamauga (September, 1863). For disobedience of orders in this battle he was relieved of command and placed under arrest.
In the winter and spring of 1864 he was in temporary charge of the Department of the Mississippi.
With Johnston when opposing Sherman's march on Atlanta, he was killed by a cannon-shot, June 14, 1864, on Pine Knob,
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)