Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, 
GENERAL ORDERS, > 
No. 84. 5 
Richmond, November 10, 1862. 
I. The following Orders are published for the information and gui- 
dance of the army. 
11. Whereas reliable information has been received, that Col. 
Lowe, and Col. A. C. Harding, Bth Illinois Regiment, U. S. Army, 
have been engaged in a series of wanton cruelties and depredations in 
Clarksville, Tennessee, and the surrounding counties, which in many 
instances have resulted in the arrest, incarceration and mal-treatment of 
non-combatants and peaceful citizens of the Confederate States, and in 
others in the unjustifiable destruction of private property, without com- 
pensation, and contrary to the rules and practice of civilized warfare: 
Therefore, it is ordered, that the aforesaid Col. Lowe, and Col. 
A. C. Harding, Bth Illinois Vols. U. S. A., be and they are hereby de- 
clared no longer entitled to be regarded as Soldiers, and that they have 
forfeited all claim to the benefits of the cartel existing between the go- 
vernments of the Confederate States and the United States for the ex- 
change of prisoners of war: and further, that in the event of their cap- 
ture, they shall be kept in close confinement and treated as felons until 
otherwise ordered by the President of the Confederate States. 
111. And whereas other officers of the U. S. Army, yet unknown to 
the Confederate government, are represented and believed to have parti- 
cipated in the wrongs and outrages before referred to: Therefore, it is 
also ordered, that the provisions of the first paragraph of this Order shall 
be applicable to any other officers of the Federal Army in the State of 
Tennessee, upon proof of their guilt deemed satisfactory by the com- 
manding officer of the Department in which they may be captured and 
held. 
IV. And whereas Major General John Pope has been removed from 
the Federal Army operating in Virginia, and the obnoxious Order No, 
11, of July 23d, 1862, issued by him, has been stated by the U. S. autho- 
rities to be inoperative and without effect: Therefore, it is ordered, that 
so much of General Orders, No. 54, of August 1,1862, from the Adjutant 
and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond, as applies to the said Major 
General John Pope, and the officers serving under him in Virginia, be 
and is hereby rescinded. 
order. 
S. COOPER, 
Adjutant and Inspector General.