find about sixty orders on different subjects, and we copy several of them.
There seems to be nothing too low for that dirty dog Butler, or his even dirtier Provost Marshal, to meddle with.
The first of the official orders we copy explain:
How the Beast missed Getting the Bank Deposits Headquarters 18th Army Corps,Department of Va. and North Carolina,Fortress Monroe, Va, Feb. 18th, 1864.
Special Orders, No. 49.
VI.
W H W Hodges having been Cashier of the Merchants' and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Portsmouth, in which were deposited the savings of the widows and orphans of the laborers of that city, and having, as such Cashier, been faithless to his trust; and having sent away into the Confederacy the funds belonging to the bank, and having been called upon by the Bank Commission and examined regarding the affairs of that bank, and being asked concerning it and declining to answer, and afterwards being brought before the Commanding General, and being by him duly cau
arged with "harboring, comforting, and concealing persons serving in the rebel armies, acting and lurking as spies within, the lines of the United States army." The former was sentenced to confinement at hard labor for the period of six months, and the latter for the period of two years.
William H H Hodges, citizen, was charged with embezzlement, and "fraudulent, dishonest, and contumacious conduct, to the prejudice of good order in the department."He was Cashier of the Merchants' and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Portsmouth, and his "fraud, " according to the specification, consisted in his refusal to give any account of the property of the corporation entrusted to his care to a commission appointed to examine into the condition of the affairs of said corporation, or to the commanding General of the Department, who doubtless wanted to appropriate the funds to his own use. The court sentenced him to confinement, at hard labor, for the period of two years. Mr Hodges is a son of Gen H
