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“Head Quarters Department of the Cumberland,Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
June 2, 1863General Orders, No. 126
Court Martial of 1st Lieutenant Henry H. Wiley, 6th East Tennessee Infantry, which convened at Carthage, Tenn., of which Colonel P.P. Lane, 11th Ohio Infantry was President. Includes the charges, specifications, findings and sentence.
Lieutenant Wiley was charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, for his actions and language on the 27th day of April, 1863, while in the encampment of the 1st Brigade, Cook’s Division, near Carthage, Tenn. Wiley, seeing and well knowing that Captain Robert G. Campbell and his employees, said Captain Campbell then being Asst. Q.M. of the 1st Brigade, Cook’s Division, were absent from camp, did go to the tent of said Campbell, and did then and there, no WHITE person being about the tent of said Campbell, except the wife of said Campbell, to wit: Virginia Campbell, and did intrude himself into the tent then occupied by her, and her proper place of staying, and did greatly insult and disturb her feelings, by remarking to her, among other things, that he had been in the Army a year or more, and had not yet had any woman to roll in his arms and to sleep with, and that he would like to have a woman to sleep with, and that he, wished her, Virginia Campbell, to kiss him, at the same time advancing towards her to accomplish such object.
The Court found Lieutenant Wiley guilty and sentenced him to be dismissed from the service of the United States, however his sentence was commuted by the General Commanding. Instead, Lieutenant Wiley was sentenced to forfeit three months pay, and make a full written apology to Captain Campbell, for the unofficerlike and ungentlemanly conduct of which he has been found guilty of. To further humiliate Lieutenant Wiley, his written apology shall be read at the first dress parade after the publication of these orders. It is interesting to note that there was no mention of an apology to Captain Campbell’s wife, Mrs. Virginia Campbell.”
“Head Quarters, Army of the Potomac,September 28th, 1864General Court Martial Orders, No. 36
Includes the court martials of the following officers and men who served in the Army of the Potomac: 2nd Lieutenant George H. Bannister, 11th New Jersey Vols.; Private Alfred G. Lawrence, 16th Massachusetts Vols.; Private David H. O’Brien, 73rd New York Vols.; Captain James Doyle, 110th Pennsylvania Vols.; Private Dennis Dalrymple, 5th New Jersey Vols.; Edward McDonald, 93rd New York Vols.; 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Clark, 7th New Jersey Vols.; Captain James S. Baer, 1st Maryland Vols.; 2nd Lieutenant Ernest Kemp, 15th New York Heavy Artillery; Private Emanuel Carpenter, 12th U.S. Inf.; Captain Samuel Wilson, 39th U.S. Colored Troops; Private Charles H. Merlin, 2nd Maryland Vols.; and 1st Lieutenant Charles A. Jones, 2nd New York Artillery.
Gives the charges, findings, sentences and proceedings for each individual court martial. Also states where the several court martials were held, their dates and what officer served as president of the court.
Some of the charges that these men were brought up on were drunkenness on duty, conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline, desertion to the enemy, disobedience of orders, misbehavior before the enemy, disrespect towards a superior officer, absence without leave, and desertion.
Some of the sentences ordered by the court were to be cashiered from the service, to forfeit all pay and allowances, to be dishonorably discharged, and several were given the ultimate penalty, to be hung by the neck until dead, and to be shot to death with musketry.
This order was issued by Command of Major General Meade, and signed in print by S.[eth] Williams, Assistant Adjutant General.”
