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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
isoners; but the time and locality are not stated. Gen. Sherman's instructions to Gen. Burbridge--the same to be carried out in Georgia and Tennessee. Major Gen. Sherman has written a letter to Gen. Burbridge, commanding the department of Kentucky, containing instructions to govern him in his treatment of "guerillas," as the Yankees call all Confederate cavalry who operate in their rear or on their flanks. Sherman also caused the same letter to be published while in front of Kennesaw Mountain, as a warning to the people of Georgia and Tennessee in his rear: 1d. You may order all your post and district commanders that guerillas are not soldiers, but wild beasts, unknown to the usages of war. To be recognized as soldiers they must be enlisted, enrolled, officered, uniformed, armed and equipped by recognized belligerent power, and must, it detached from an army, be of sufficient strength, with written orders from some army commander, to do some military thing. Of cours