Major General Ambrose E. Burnside, commanding the compulsory Union Department of Ohio, issues General Order 38, forbidding public speech or writings expressing support for the Confederate cause.

       That hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country, will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death.  This order includes the following classes of persons:

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       The habit of declaring sympathies for the enemy will no longer be tolerated in the department.  Persons committing such offences will be at once arrested, with a view to being tried as above stated, or sent beyond our lines into the lines of their friends.

       [restored 4/4/2022]