E.D. Townsend to United States War Department, August 31, 1864
CouRT-MARTIAL ORDERS, ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE, No. 274, \ Washington, August 31, 1864,
The sentences “to be hung,” awarded by a military commission and promulgated in General Orders, No. 61, headquarters Middle Department, Kighth Army Corps, Baltimore, Md., August 8, 1864, in the cases of Samuel P.[B.] Hearn, Braxton Lyon, William H. Rogers [Rodgers], and John R. H. Embert, citizens, are commuted by the President of the United States to “confinement at hard labor in the penitentiary during the war.”
The penitentiary at Albany, N. Y., is designated as the place of their confinement, to which the prisoners will be sent under suitavle guard by orders from the department commander and delivered to the warden tor execution of their sentence. :
By order of the Secretary of War:
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Report of a military commission convened at Camp Douglas, Chicago,
Ill., in obedience to the following order, viz:
No. 23. § Camp Douglas, Chicago, Il., January 23, 1865.
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2. A military commission is hereby ordered to meet at Camp Douglas, Chicago,