Ford, George B., 1828-1911 [Court Martial proceedings in the case of Wiley Sullivan for being absent without leave]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02233.23 Author/Creator: Ford, George B., 1828-1911 Place Written: Greenville, North Carolina Type: Autograph document signed Date: 26 May 1863 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; 24 x 19 cm. Order a Copy
Details the trial and conviction of Sullivan for the charge of "absence without leave." Records specifics of the charge, testimony from the trial, and resulting sentence. Sullivan was sentenced to carry a twenty pound stick eight hours a day for fourteen days and then gagged eight hours a day for five days. With the names of James Dalrymple as the Judge Advocate and Captain Thomas R. Youngblood as if signed, but likely in Ford's hand.
Wiley Sullivan was a private in the Fiftieth North Carolina Infantry. George B. Ford was a captain in the Fiftieth North Carolina Infantry. James Dalrymple was a third lieutenant in the Fiftieth North Carolina Infantry. Thomas R. Youngblood was a Captain in the Fiftieth North Carolina Infantry.
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