"By command of Major-General Pope:
"GEORGE D. RUGGLES, Colonel."
"HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF VIRGINIA, WASHINGTON, July 23, 1862.
"(GENERAL ORDERS, No. 11.)
"Commanders of army corps, divisions, brigades, and detached commands will proceed immediately to arrest all disloyal male citizens within their lines, or within their reach in the rear of their respective stations.
"Such as are willing to take the oath of allegiance to the United States, and will furnish sufficient security for its observance, shall be permitted to remain at their homes, and pursue in good faith their accustomed avocations. Those who refuse shall be conducted south beyond the extreme pickets of the army, and be notified that, if found again anywhere within our lines or at any point in the rear, they will be considered spies, and subjected to the extreme rigor of the military law. . . .
"By command of Major-General Pope:
"GEORGE D. RUGGLES,
"Colonel, A. A.-General, and Chief of Staff."
Thus was announced a policy of pillage, outrage upon unarmed, peaceable people, arson, and ruthless insult to the defenseless. Had the vigor of the campaign been equal to the bombastic manifesto of this disgrace to the profession of arms, the injuries inflicted would have been more permanent; the conduct could scarcely have been more brutal.