GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 42. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, April 18, 1862. 
1.. By direction of the President, Brigade Surgeon J. II. Thompson, 
United States Volunteers, is hereby dismissed the service as an 
alarmist, on the recommendation of his Commanding General, 
Major General Burnside. 
11.. 0. the recommendation of Brigadier General Sumner, com- 
manding Second Army Corps, approved by Major General McClellan, 
commanding the Army of the Potomac, Major Von Steinhaus, Captain 
Bctticher, and Captain Camp, 68th Begiment of New York Volunteers ; 
Lieutenant Lombard, Battalion Adjutant 8th Illinois Cavalry ; and 
Assistant Surgeon Williams, 1st New York Artillery, are, by direction 
of the President, stricken from the rolls of the Army, for berng 
captured by the enemy while straggling without authority beyond 
the outposts of the Army, March 29, 1862. 
111.. The headquarters of Lieutenant Colonel William Hoffman, 8th 
Infantry, Commissary General of Prisoners, is transferred from New 
York city to Detroit, Michigan. 
IV.-The attention of officers empowered bylaw to assemble Gen- 
eral Courts Martial is directed to the Regulations, paragraphs 896 and 
897, relative to forwarding the proceedings of such Courts, with their 
action endorsed on each case, and a copy of the order promulgating 
the proceedings, promptly, to the Judge Advocate of the Army, at 
Washington. Much embarrassment is occasioned to the War Depart- 
ment by failure to comply with these Regulations, which must be at 
once remedied wherever they have been neglected. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.