GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 16. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, January 20, 1863. 
By direction of the President, the dismissal of Captain Job B. Stocton, 
1st Kansas Volunteers, in “General Orders,” No. 195, of November 24, 
1862, is hereby revoked, it now appearing that Captain Stocton was 
not absent without leave, as reported; but detained, by unauthorized 
authority, on duty in a department to which he did not belong. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.