Court Martial Document - Brevet Brigadier General Pelouze

Item DOC-61

Description

2 page original Civil War Court Martial document, War dated.

Headquarters, E. C.

Hilton Head, SC

March 6th 1862

Special Orders No. 112

A General Court Martial is hereby appointed to meet at 10 o’clock a.m. Tuesday, the 11th instant or soon thereafter as practicable, in the building adjacent the Post Depot for the trial of each persons as may be brought before it.

Detail for the Court.

Colonel Robert Williams 1st Regiment Massachusetts Cavalry
LtCol John H. Jackson 3rd Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers
LtCol McClelland Moore 28th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers
Major Edwin Metcalf 3rd Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers
Major John Speidel 6th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers
Captain Thomas B. Briggs 3rd Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers
Captain Ed. P. Hudson 6th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers
Captain Henry Rice 76th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
Captain Lucius Richmond 1st Regiment Massachusetts Cavalry
1st Lieutenant Asa A. Ellis 3rd Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers
1st Lieutenant Greenleaf W. Batchelder 1st Regiment Massachusetts Cavalry


Captain Louis H. Pelouze, 15th U.S. Infantry, A.A. Adjutant General, is appointed Judge Advocate of the Court.

Should any of the Officers named in the detail be prevented from attending at the time and place specified, the Court will nevertheless proceed to, and continue the business before it provided the number of members present be not less than the minimum prescribed by law, the above being the greatest number that can be convened without manifest injury to the service.

By order of
Brigadier General T. W. Sherman
L. H. Pelouze
Captain, 15th Infantry
A. A. Adjutant General