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- GLC#
- GLC02233.26-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- May 27, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Ford, George B., 1828-1911
- Title
- [Court Martial proceedings in the case of W. H. Hutson for being absent without leave]
- Place Written
- Greenville, North Carolina
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 30 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Details the trial and conviction of Hutson for the charge of "absence without leave." Records specifics of the charge, testimony from the trial, and resulting sentence. Hutson was sentenced to carry a twenty pound stick eight hours a day for sixteen days. With the names of James Dalrymple as the Judge Advocate and Lieutenant William H. Borden as if signed, but likely in Ford's hand.
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