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General Order Number 10
Headquarters District of the Border
Kansas City, Mo., August 18, 1863
I. Officers commanding companies
and detachments, will give escort and subsistence, as far as practicable,
through that part of Missouri included in the District, to all
loyal free persons desiring to remove to the state of Kansas or
to a permanent military stations in Missouri-including all persons
who have been ascertained, in the manor provided in General Order
No. 9 of this District, to have been the slaves of persons engaged
in aiding the rebellion since July 17, 1862. Where necessary,
the teams of persons engaged in aiding the rebellion since July
23, 1862, will be taken to help such removal and after being used
for that purpose, will be turned over to the officer commanding
the nearest military station, who will at once report them to
an Assistant Provost Marshall, or to the District Provost Marshall
and hold them subject to this order.
II. Such officers will arrest and send to the District Provost
Marshall for punishment, all men (and all women, not heads of
families) who willfully aid and encourage guerrillas; with a written
statement of the names and residence of such persons and of the
proof against them. They will discriminate as carefully as possible
between those who are compelled by threats or fears to aid the
rebels and those who aid them from disloyal motives.
The wives and the children of known guerrillas, and also women
who are heads of families and are willfully engaged in aiding
guerrillas, will be notified by such officers to move out of this
district and out of the State of Missouri forthwith. They will
be permitted to take unmolested, their stock, provisions and household
goods. If they fail to remove promptly they will be sent by such
officers under escort to Kansas City for shipment South, with
their cloths and such necessary household furniture as may be
worth removing.
III. Persons who have borne arms against the Government and voluntarily
lay them down and surrender themselves at a military station,
will be sent under escort to the District Provost Marshall at
these Head Quarters. Such persons will be banished with their
families to such State or district out of this department as the
General Commanding the Department may direct, and will there remain
exempt from other military punishment or account of their past
disloyalty, but not exempt from civil trial for treason.
IV. No officer or enlisted man, without special instructions from
these Headquarters will burn or destroy any buildings, fences,
crops or other property. But all furnaces and fixtures of blacksmith
shops in that part of Missouri included in the District, not at
military stations, will be destroyed and the tools either removed
to such stations or destroyed.
V. Commanders of companies and detachments serving in Missouri
will not allow persons not in the military service of the United
States to accompany them on duty except when employed as guides,
and will be held responsible for the good conduct of such men
employed as guides and for their obedience to orders.
VI. Officers and enlisted men belonging to regiment or companies,
organized or unorganized, are prohibited going from Kansas to
the District of Northern Missouri without written permission or
order from these Head Quarters or from the Assistant Provost Marshal
at Leavenworth City or the Commanding officer at Fort Leavenworth
or some Officer commanding a military station in the District
of Northern Missouri.
By Order of Brigadier General Ewing
P.B. Plumb, Major and Chief of Staff
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