GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 142. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, May 23, 1863. 
The case of Major Samuel K. Dawson, 19th Regiment United States 
Infantry, sentenced by a General Court Martial to he cashiered, and 
which sentence is approved in General Orders, No. 4, of January 9, 
1863, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, has been commended 
to the President of the United States for the exercise of Executive 
clemency. 
The President orders that the further operation of the sentence 
against him be, and it is hereby, remitted, and Major Dawson is rein- 
stated in his command as of his original date. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.