Period printed order in good condition. Document runs four pages.

Order is titled “HEAD –QUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC APRIL 25, 1864 – GENERAL COURT MARTIAL ORDERS NO. 12.”

The order elates the outcome of several cases involving officers and men from the following regiments:

119^th Pennsylvania

6^th Maine

11^th Massachusetts

81^st Pennsylvania

1^st Ohio Cavalry

140^th New York

13^th Pennsylvania Cavalry

146^th New York

1^st Company Andrews Sharpshooters

14^th Connecticut

82^nd New York

9^th New York Cavalry

17^th Pennsylvania Cavalry

All but one man were found guilty. The officers were sentenced to be cashiered or dismissed while the enlisted men were ordered to be shot. All but one of the death sentences were commuted to discharge or imprisonment.

At the end of a year the printed General Orders like these were usually bound and that was the case with this one. However, years later the books were broken up and the orders sold individually leaving several neat holes from where they were once sewn together.

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