Expulsion of correspondents from the lines.
--The following is a copy of an official order recently issued at Corinth, to which allusion has been made heretofore:
- 1. All newspaper and other correspondents are hereby ordered to leave this post by the first train; nor will they be permitted to return within twenty-five miles of the lines.
- 2. The Inspectors General of the army are especially charged with the execution of this order, both in relation to correspondents now here, or any others who may arrive.
- 3. Officers and soldiers are forbidden to write of the army in their correspondence; and the General commanding confidently relies on the patriotism of his troops for the faithful execution of this order.
- 4. All officers and privates absent from their post for seven days, without leave, shall be dropped from the rolls of the army, and be considered as deserters, and, when arrested, shall be punished as such. Their names will also be published in all the papers as such.
Acting Chief of Staff.
