Revised regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861 : with a full index / by authority of the War Department.

  • United States Department of War
Date:
1862
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Credit: Revised regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861 : with a full index / by authority of the War Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Safeguards. Sieges. foreign parts by the commauding general, or by other commanders within the limits of their command. 789. Safeguards are usually given to protect hospitals, public esta- blishments, establishments of religion, charity, or instruction, museums, depositories of the arts, mills, post-offices, and other institutions of public benefit; also to individuals whom it may be the interest of the army to respect. 790. A safeguard may consist of one or more men of fidelity and firm- ness, generally non-effective non-commissioned officers, furnished with a paper setting out clearly the protection and exemptions it is intended to secure, signed by the commander giving it, and his staff officer; or it may consist of such paper, delivered to the party whose person, family, house, and property it is designed to protect. These safeguards must be numbered and registered. 791. The men left as safeguards by one corps may be replaced by another. They are withdrawn when the country is evacuated; but if not, they have orders to await the arrival of the enemy's troops, and apply to the commander for a safe-conduct to the outposts. 792. Form of a safeguard : By authority of , A safeguard is hereby granted to [A. B , or the house and family of A. B , or to the college, mills, or property; stating precisely the place, nature, and description of the person, property, or buildings]. All officers and soldiers belonging to the army of the United States are therefore commanded to respect this safeguard, and to afford, if necessary, protection to [the person, family, or property of , as the case may be]. Given a+' Head-Quarters, the — day of . A. B , Major-Greneral commanding-in-chief. By command of the General. C. D , Adjutant-General. 55tJi Article of the Rules and Articles of War. Whosoev ■^r belonging to the armies of the United States, employed in foreign parts, shall force a safeguard, shall suffer death. SIEGES. 793. In the following regulations the besieging force is supposed to be two divisions of infantry and a brigade of cavalry. The same principles govern in other cases. 794. The Brigadier-Generals of infantry serve, in turn, as Generals of the trenches; one or more of them are detailed daily, according to the K2 8