giving parole, and refused to give my own, as did also Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews, Captain Houck, of Company I, and Lieutenant Hetzler, of Company H, acting commissary of subsistence at the post. Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews afterward made an arrangement for a parole for thirty days, at the end of which time we agreed to report to the officer commanding the Confederate forces at Hopkinsville, Ky. The other officers and the enlisted men gave their parole not to take up arms against the Confederate States until exchanged. These paroles I suppose to be binding, as Lieutenant-Colonel Woodward held the commission as lieutenant-colonel of the C. S. Army, and his men were all regularly mustered into service.

I am, general, respectfully, your obedient servant,

R. MASON

Colonel Seventy-first Ohio Volunteers.

Major General U. S. GRANT, Headquarters, Corinth, M

GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJT. General 'S OFFICE,

Numbers 115.

Washington, August 22, 1862.

Colonel Rodney Mason, Seventy-first Regiment Ohio Volunteers, is, by order of the President of the United States, cashiered for repeated acts of cowardice in the face of the enemy.

By order of Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE.

Numbers 130. Washington, March 22, 1866.

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III. By direction of the President, General Orders, Numbers 115, August 22, 1862, from this office, relating to Colonel Rodney Mason, Seventy-first Ohio Volunteers, is hereby revoked, and he is mustered out of the service of the United States to date August 22, 1862.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND

Assistant Adjutant-General.

Numbers 3.

Report of Lieutenant Colonel George W. Andrews, Seventy-first Ohio Infantry.

COLUMBUS, OHIO

Camp Chase, September 30, 1862.

SIR: Understanding some censures have been cast upon me by officers dismissed I submit the following:

After the surrender of Clarksville, while the detachment was on its

way up the Mississippi River to Benton Barracks, to which General

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