GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 95. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, August 5, 1862. 
The following orders are promulgated for the information of all 
concerned: 
War Department, 
Washington City, D. C., July 31, 1862. 
1.. Ordered, That the Hon. L. C. Turner, of New York, be, and 
he is hereby, appointed Associate Judge Advocate for the Army around 
Washington. That all cases of State prisoners, and also cases of military 
arrests in the District of Columbia and the adjacent counties of Vir- 
ginia, are specially assigned to him for investigation and determination. 
The Military Governor of the District of Columbia, and the Provost 
Marshal of AVashington, will make report to him of cases wherein the 
action of a Judge Advocate may be required. 
11.. Ordered, That Simeon Draper, Esquire, of New York, be, and 
he is hereby, appointed a Commissioner of this Department, to super- 
intend the execution of the order of this date [General Orders, No. 92,] 
respecting absentee officers and privates. He will have an office as- 
signed to him in the A\rar Department, and will communicate with the 
Marshals, Mayors, Chiefs of Police, and other special Provost Mar- 
shals designated in said order. All communications touching the 
execution of said order, will be addressed to him. Quartermasters 
and Commissaries will furnish transportation and subsistence on his 
requisition, and all officers in the service will aid him in the duties of 
his commission. 
EDWIN M. STANTON, 
Secretary of War. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.