GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 239. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
ADJUTANT GENERAI/S OFFICE, 
Washington, August 5, 1864. 
Lieutenant L. M. Gardner, 1st Cavalry, California Volunteers, 
having, under date of December 16, 1863, addressed a letter from 
Sacramento, California, to the Secretary of State, charging the 
Quartermaster’s Department on the Pacific Coast, in general terms, 
with fraud ; and after careful investigation by a General Court Mar- 
tial of all the accusations made by Lieutenant Gardner, it having 
been ascertained that his charges were made not only without just 
ground, but without any foundation whatever, and that his object was 
to injure Nicholas H. Wyse, an agent of the Quartermaster’s De- 
partment, who was tried by the Court Martial and honorably acquit- 
ted ; it is therefore ordered, that Lieutenant Gardner be, and he is, 
hereby reprimanded for making, through the Department of State, 
unfounded charges of fraud in regard to transactions of the Quarter- 
master’s Department, of which the investigation has shown him to 
have been totally ignorant. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 
E. I). TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.