To Gen Milroy From Adj Gen Office Aug 4 1863

              War department  
                   Adjutant General’s Office 
                      Washington  August 4th , 1863 
 
Special orders 
   No. 346.       
                   Extract  
        8. By direction of the president of the  
United  States.  A court of inquiry is here by 
appointed to meet at Washington on the 7th day 
of  August 1863 . Or as soon there after as practicable 
to investigate the facts and circumstances connected with resent evacuation of Winchester by the 
Command of Maj. Gen. R.H. Milroy UF. Vols. 
and the evacuation of Martinsburg by the command of Brig, General D.Tyler Arf. Vols. 
The court will report whether the order of 
the General in chief in regard to the evacuation of Winchester were complied with, and if not , by 
whom they were disobeyed, it will also report whether the retreat of the command was properly 
conducted and the public properly suitably  
cared for, and if not, what office or officers  
were in fault. 
The court will also report whether the retreat 
from Martinsburg, was properly conducted and 
public property suitably cared for and if 
not what office or officers were in fault.