Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29.
Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.

[120] them, but are subversive of the discipline and efficiency of the army and destructive of the ends of our present movements. It must be remembered that we make war only on armed men, and that we cannot take vengeance for the wrongs our people have suffered without lowering ourselves in the eyes of all whose abhorrence has been excited by the atrocities of our enemy, and offending against Him to whom vengeance belongeth, without whose favor and support our efforts must all prove in vain. The commanding general, therefore, earnestly exhorts the troops to abstain, with most scrupulous care from unnecessary or wanton injury to private property; and he enenjoins upon all officers to arrest and bring to summary punishment all who shall in any way offend against the orders on this subject.