An Account of the Organization of the Army of the United States: With Biographies of Distinguished Officers of All Grades, Band 1E. H. Butler & Company, 1848 - 368 Seiten |
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Seite 343 - ... neither will you disclose or discover the vote or opinion of any particular member of the court-martial, unless required to give evidence thereof, as a witness, by a court of justice, in a due course of law. So help you God.
Seite 342 - States, and if any doubt should arise, not explained by said articles, then according to your conscience, the best of your understanding and the custom of war in like cases...
Seite 339 - ... shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a general court-martial. ART. 53. Any person belonging to the armies of the United States...
Seite 344 - No officer commanding a guard, or provost marshal, shall refuse to receive or keep any prisoner committed to his charge by an officer belonging to the forces of the United States; provided the officer committing shall, at the same time, deliver an account in writing, signed by himself, of the crime with which the said prisoner is charged.
Seite 336 - ... or disorders which may be committed by any officer or soldier under his command ; if, upon complaint made to him of officers or soldiers beating or otherwise ill-treating any person...
Seite 330 - ... there to be publicly and severely reprimanded by the president ; if non-commissioned officers or soldiers, every person so offending shall, for his first...
Seite 343 - States,' without partiality, favor, or affection; and if any doubt should arise, not explained by said articles, according to your conscience, the best of your understanding, and the custom of war in like cases; and you do further swear that you will not divulge the sentence of the court until it shall be published by the proper authority...
Seite 269 - States, as prisoners of war. the 29th instant, at 10 o'clock, AM ; the garrisons to be permitted to march out with all the honors of war, and to lay down their arms to such officers as may be appointed by the general-in-chief of the United States armies, and at a point to be agreed upon by the commissioners.
Seite 342 - You, AB, do swear that you will well and truly try and determine, according to evidence, the matter now before you, between the United States of America and the prisoner to be tried, and that you will duly administer justice, without partiality, favor, or affection, according to the provisions of the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States...
Seite 341 - ... when composed of different corps, according to the ranks given them in their brevets or dates of their former commissions ; but in the regiment, troop, or company to which such officers belong, they shall do duty and take rank both in courts-martial and on detachments which shall be composed of their own corps, according to the commissions by which they are mustered in the said corps.