GENERAL ORDERS, No. 55

HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,

Corinth., Miss., May 24, 1862

The general commanding the forces desires to call the attention of the army to the insubordinate conduct of the following-named officers of Colonel J. S. Scott's regiment of cavalry, Louisiana:

Captain C. W. Keep, Company A; Captain W. W. Leake, Company C; Captain John Routh Williams, Company D; Captain J. Benjamin, Company F; Captain Fenelon Cannon, Company G; Captain John Campbell, Company H; Captain A. Lejeune, Company I. Captain Wm. L. Ditto, Company K.

These offices, without authority, having abandoned their commands in the face of the enemy, and presented themselves in person at these headquarters in order to lodge complaints against their commanding officer, have been promptly ordered under arrest and sent under guard to Brigadier-General Forney, commanding at Mobile, to be confined at Fort Morgan.

The general commanding regrets to notice conduct strangely in contrast with the many recent instances of heroic behavior of the regiment to which they belong, but deems it proper to publish to the army, not only his disapproval of such acts of insubordination, but his stern determination to visit them with the penalty due to their commission.

By command of General Beauregard:

GEO. WM. BRENT,
Acting Chief of Staff.

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