Said

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was born in

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, in the State of

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, is --- years of age, ---- feet ---- inches high,

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complexion,

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eyes,

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hair, and by occupation, when enlisted, a ----.

Given at

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, this ---- day of ----, 186-.

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Commanding Company.

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,

Mustering Officer.

OATH OF IDENTITY.

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of ----, country of ----:

On this --- day of ----, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ---, personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a justice of the peace for the county and

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above mentioned, -- -- ----, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical ---- who was a

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in the regiment

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commanded by ---- ----; that he enlisted on the ---- day of ----, for the term of ---, and was discharged at

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on the ---- day of

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by reason of ----

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.

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.

I certify that

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, before whom the above affidavit purports to have been made, is a justice of the peace, duly authorized to administer oaths, and that the above is his signature.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this --- day of

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, in the year

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, at

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, in the State of

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.

[L. S.]

---- ----,

Clerk of the

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.

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 146.
Washington, September 30, 1862.

No officer will hereafter be relieved from his command and sent to report in this city without the authority of the War Department. Where subordinate officers are guilty of military offenses, or are negligent, or incompetent, it is the duty of the commander to have them tried for their offenses, or examined in regard to their incompetency, by a proper court or commission, and this duty cannot be evaded by sending them to Washington. Hereafter officers so sent to headquarters will be immediately ordered back, and those who send them will be deemed guilty of disobedience of orders.

By command of Major-General Halleck:

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., September 30, 1862.

Honorable WILLIAM H. SEWARD,

Secretary of State:

SIR: The Secretary of War directs me to transmit to you the inclosed copy of a letter received from Brigadier General G. F. Shepley, Military Governor of Louisiana, covering a copy of a communication addressed by him to Mr. Amedee Couturie, advising him of his readiness to restore to him the $800,000 in coin taken from his possession