39th Iowa Infantry

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS

Pulaski, Tenn.,  November 23, 1863

Col. M.M. Bane, Commanding Third Brigade:

Colonel:  Frequent and serious complaints by citizens are made to these headquarters in reference to pillaging and outrages committed by the troops under your command, and especially by the officers and men of the Thirty-ninth Iowa Volunteers.  Mrs. Wilkinson, residing at Moris' Mills, has today made a bitter complaint against some of the men of the above-named regiment, who took her bed-clothes, chickes, and stock, and conducted themselves in a shameful manner.  Sufficient orders have been issued to stop such disgraceful proceedings, and you will immediately make a strict examination into the matter and obtain the name of the officer (suposed to be Captain Bennett, Thirty-ninth Volunteers) in command of these men at the time, and make a full statement of the facts to these headquarters, with as little delay as possible, in order that the guilty parties may be punished, and a stop put to porceedings that are a disgrace to the service.

By order of T.W. Sweeny,brigadier general commanding:

L.H. Everts, Captain and Assistnat Adjutant-general

OR, Ser. I, Vol. 31, pt. III, p. 236

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