John Boyle, General Orders, No. 3
1863-10-09
- Date of Creation
- October 9, 1863
- Place of Creation
- Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Order
- Repository
- Kentucky Department of Military Affairs
- Collection
- Assistant Adjutant General Letter Book - No. 1 ; 5 Sept 1863 - 2 Feb 1864
- Box / Folder
- 116
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0002-153-0028
- Rights
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- 32212761
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- Dates
- 1863-10-09
Citation
John Boyle, General Orders, No. 3, 1863-10-09, Assistant Adjutant General Letter Book - No. 1 ; 5 Sept 1863 - 2 Feb 1864, Kentucky Department of Military Affairs. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0002-153-0028 (November 12, 2026).
116
General Orders
No. 3.
The State of Kentucky is infested in many quarters with armed guerillas, outlaws at once to their Country and humanity. Everyday brings tidings of the enormities they commit, of murders of innocent Citizens and disabled soldiers. of robberies of banks, sacking of towns and wholesale desetruction of property. yet the Citizens of this Commonwealth, disregarding the exhortations of the Militairy authorities and unmoved by the destruction of the lives and property of their neighbors, view with apathetic indifference the occurance of these horrors accumulating every day.
It is therefore proclaimed and ordered, that, unless at least one Volunteer Company is organized under the provisions of the State Guard Law, as directed by General. Order No 1. from those Head Quarters, and reported to this Department. within fifteen days. from each County in the State- a draft will be immediately enforced. The State shall be free from its murderous foes, even though every arm be required to aid in their destruction.
Some friend to his Country in each County will materially assist the execution of this order by sending at once, to these Head Quarters, names of Gentlemen who will act as Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel under the State Guard Law, and Commissions will at once issue for them.
By order of the Governor
John Boyle
Adjt Genl of Ky