ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, 
Washington, January 16, 1863. 
ORDERS, 
With profound sorrow the Adjutant General announces to the officers 
of his Department the decease of one of their comrades. To use the 
words of his Commanding General, in his brief dispatch from the 
battle field, near Murfreesboro’,—“We have to deplore the loss of 
Lieutenant Colonel Garesche, whose capacity and gentlemanly 
deportment had already endeared him to all the officers of this com- 
mand, and whose gallantry on the field of battle excited their 
admiration.” 
Lieutenant Colonel Julius P. Garesche, Assistant Adjutant Gen- 
eral, was a graduate of the Military Academy, in the class of 1841. 
As lieutenant of the Fourth Artillery, he served with distinction in 
the war with Mexico, and afterwards in Texas. Appointed to the 
Adjutant General’s Department in 1855, he was ordered to-duty in the 
Bureau at Washington, where, at the outbreak of the Rebellion, he was 
the senior Assistant. His ability and untiring industry have left their im- 
press on the elaborate records over which he presided; and the universal 
and unfeigned regret at his loss, so freely expressed by all who came 
"in contact with him, is a touching evidence of his value as an officer, 
and his worth as a man. Just and uncompromising in his official 
conduct, he was yet courteous, obliging, and affable. Possessing a 
chivalric spirit, with a high order of professional attainment, he hastened 
to embrace the first opportunity given him to enter on a more brilliant 
sphere of action, and reported to Major General Rosecrans as his 
chosen Chief of Staff, in time to render essential aid in organizing the 
Army with which the field of Murfreesboro’ was won. At a critical 
moment on the 31st December, when the General, with his staff, dashed 
forward to restore the tide of battle, which was turning against our 
arms, “the noble Colonel Garesche” was instantly killed by a 
cannon ball. What lot can be more enviable to a soldier than bis! Of singularly 
spotless private character, faithful in the observance of his obligations as 
a Christian, and devoted in his leisure hours to the exercise of benevo- 
lent acts, honored and beloved in his profession, he died as a true 
hero, apd is mourned with a depth and sincerity of grief not often 
betrayed. 
Thfe officers of the Adjutant General’s Department will wear the 
badge of mourning for thirty days in respect to his memory. 
L. THOMAS, 
Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.