200 men; besides these about 150 cavalry had dashed through the city to the landing. This was Colonel Andrews' report. But several others had reconnoitered and discovered two batteries of artillery planted within 500 yards of us. The people, 6,000 or 7,000 in number and containing at least 1,000 fighting men, were rising and turning out armed. There were but five or six Union families in the city. We had not the sign of artillery but a little bell-muzzled piece Colonel Andrews had patched up at Donelson and brought along; a grape-shot could not be put in its chamber; we had no ammunition for that. Under these circumstances we thought it madness to hold out, and we unanimously advised Colonel Mason to surrender.

N. J. HARTER, First Lieutenant Co. I.

C. H. KRAMER,

Captain Co. F.

ISAAC MANN, Second Lieutenant, Co. C

SOL. J. HOUCK,

Captain Co. I

IRA L. MORRIS,

First Lieutenant Co. C.

SMITH H. CLARK,

Captain Co. D.

J. R. WOODWARD,

Captain Co. C.

T. W. BOWN,

Captain Co. K.

THOS. T. MORE.

Adjutant.

WM. H. CALLENDER,

Captain Co. E.

H. M. DRURY,

Lieutenant Co. D.

S. W. BEAMAN,

Lieutenant Co. F.

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

Numbers 120.

Washington, August 29, 1862.

The following officers of the Seventy-first Regiment Ohio Volunteers are, by order of the President of the United States, cashiered, they having published a card stating that they advised Colonel Rodney Mason to surrender Clarksville, Tenn., to the rebel forces, for which and other like acts the said Colonel Mason has been cashiered:

First Lieutenant N. J. Harter. Captain Sol. J. Houck.

Second Lieutenant Isaac Mann. Captain C. H. Kramer.

First Lieutenant Ira L. Morris. Adjt. Thomas T. More.

Captain Smith H. Clark. Captain William H. Callender.

Captain J. R. Woodward. Lieutenant H. M. Drury.

Captain T. W. Bown. Lieutenant S. W. Beaman.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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

Numbers 133. Washington, September 18, 1862.

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II. Satisfactory evidence having been submitted that Captain Sol. J. Houck, Seventy-first Ohio Volunteers, did not advise the surrender of Clarksville, Tenn., and that he signed the card justifying the surrender under a misapprehension of its contents, the President directs that so much of General Orders, Numbers 120, as cashiers him be revoked.

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By order the Secretary of War:

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.