GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 3. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, January 2, 1864. 
The attention of Courts Martial and of reviewing officers is called 
to the impropriety and danger of associating with the honorable and 
important duty of guards any idea of punishment or degradation. 
These remarks are called forth in disapproving the sentence of a 
Court Martial directing that a prisoner shall do guard duty every other 
day for a year. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.