GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 27. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, February 2, 1863 
1.. The following officers having been detected in forwarding to the 
North stolen property belonging to the United States, are, by direc- 
tion of the President, dishonorably dismissed the service: 
Colonel L. P. Cesnola, 4th New York Cavalry. 
Surgeon T. M. Hill, 27th Connecticut Volunteers. 
111.. By direction of the President, Captain J. P. Foley, Assistant 
Adjutant General U. S. Volunteers, is hereby dismissed the service for 
having been taken prisoner and paroled while straggling on the march; 
an offence which it was his duty as an officer to correct in others, 
instead of committing himself. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.