ut to work, with orders to leave their "kid gloves
behind." He thinks more is to be apprehended from an attack on
Petersburg than Richmond; and requests that Gen. Wise be ordered to
march thither from Chaffin's Bluff, on the first alarm. He had not heard
of the reported victory of Lee.

JULY 8TH.--I am glad to copy the following order of Gen. Lee:

"HEADQUARTERS ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA,

"CHAMBERSBURG, PA., June 27th, 1863.

"GENERAL ORDERS NO. 73.

"The commanding general has observed with marked satisfaction the
conduct of the troops on the march, and confidently anticipates
results commensurate with the high spirit they have manifested. No
troops could have displayed greater fortitude, or better performed
the arduous marches of the past ten days. Their conduct in other
respects has, with few exceptions, been in keeping with their
character as soldiers, and entitles them to approbation and praise.

"There have, however, been instances of forgetfulness on the part
of some, that they have in keeping the yet unsullied reputation of
the army, and that the duties exacted of us by civilization and
Christianity are not less obligatory in the country of the enemy
than in our own.

"The commanding general considers that no greater disgrace could
befall the army, and through it, our whole people, than the
perpetration of the barbarous outrages upon the innocent and
defenseless, and the wanton destruction of private property, that
have marked the course of the enemy in our own country. Such
proceedings not only disgrace the perpetrators and all connected
with 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 upon 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 enjoins upon all officers to arrest and
bring to summar