general orders, 
No. 71. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, June 21,1862. 
In every case of prisoners taken in arms against the United States, 
who may be tried and sentenced to death, the record of the tribunal 
before which the trial was had will be fox-warded for the action of the 
President of the United States, without whose orders no such sentence, 
in such cases, will be executed. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.