...t within our rear, they will be considered spies and subjected to the extreme rigor of military law (i. e., death by hanging). (See The Army under Pope, by Ropes, pp. 175-6-7. This last order Mr. John C. Ropes , of Boston, a distinguished Northern writer, one generally fairer to the South than others who have written from that locality, criticises most harshly, and he does this, too, although he is about th...