12th Ohio Cavalry & 6th USC Cavalry - Murderer

Item CDV-5152

Description

12th Ohio Cavalry & 6th USC Cavalry
Charles H. Brown
Private, Quartermaster Sergeant & 1st Lieutenant
Signed in period ink
Backmark: Louisville, KY
Found guilty at a General Court Martial on the following charges:
1. Murder
2. Assault with the intent to kill
3. Violation of the 36th Article of War
Found guilty and sentence to death. Major General J. L. Reynolds reduced the sentence to confinement at hard labor for ten years.