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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
of which their citizens are the victims, do issue this my proclamation and by virtue of my authority as Commander in Chief of the enemies of the Confederate States do order. 1st. That all commissioned officers in the command of said Benjamin F. Butler be declared not entitled to be considered as soldiers engaged in honorable warfare, but as robbers and criminals slave serving death, and that they and each of them be, whenever captured, reserved for execution. 2d. That the private soldiers and non-commissioned officers in the army of said Butler by considered as only the instruments used for the commission of the crimes perpetrated by his orders and not as free agents, that they therefore be trusted, when captured, as prisoners of war, with kindness and humanity, and present home on the usual parole, that they will in no manner aid or serve the United States in any capacity during the continuance of this war, unless duly exchanged. 3d. That all negro slaves captured in