Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-03-20
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MARrNsBURG, MARCH 20, 1928.

We commence this week, according to pro-
In the first place, we shall lay before our rea-
ders the proceedings of the Court Martial
which convened at Mobile on the 5th of De.
Gambler, 1914, by order OF Major General An.
drew Jackson. BY this court were tried Cap.
John Strother, who was sentenced to be dis
missed the service; Sd Lieutenant James Nc
CauIey, who was sentenced to be dismissed the
service, to have fis sword broken over his
head, with total disqualification of ever
holding commission in the Army of the Tn,
ted States; Jacob Webb, David Morrow, John
Harris. Henry Lewis, David Hun, and Edward
Linsey, who were sentenced 70 receive the
punishment Of death by shooting One hun
drej and eighty nine others were sentenced to
remunerate the government for the time lost
while absent from service, to have, some one
bali, some one third, of their pay stopped, and
ct the end of their respective service to have
one half of the hair of the head shaved off
close, and then TO be drummed out Of camp
Major General Jackson received 4 copy of these
proceedings and sentences---rcad them--ap.
proved them, and ordered then. 20 be carried
into effect. ',Wuh respect to those sentenced
Ito the punishment of DEATH says his order.
s'thelr sentence will be carried into execution
s.fonr days after the PRONUNCIATION of this order
"at MOBILIZE Ten were pardoned. These men
-.
1914. Our readers will see that the law of
April, 1912, byywhich militia could be COM
PEELED to serve ar mouths, expired by its own
limitation on the 10Th of April preceding; con
sequentiy, the only law applicable TO the case
1 OF these unhappy men was the Law OF April ID,
1914, which requires an express order of the
President of the United States, TO detan mill
tia.men in service longer than three months. Ne
sueh order zVas giuen. The 'mutiny," robbery
and "desertion" charged. means nothing more
than this: A considerable portion OF the mil
ta.men in service at Fort Jackson in the fall
OF 1914, being fully persuaded, (as well they
might be) that there was no law in existence
by which they could be compelled 10 serve for
alonger time than three months, determined to
serve no longer. They Determined to go home
4 on the goth of September, when their legal
I term Of service expired They had to travel
several hundred miles through the wiLlerne ST.
Nvas necessary TO have something to eat on
4 the way On the 18th Of September, they
supplied themselves from the public stores with
beef and -four, that they might cook it and
have it ready. On the Goth they started home
This is the "muiiny," robbery" and
"desertion," for which they were pun
ished with ignomy and death Mill
tIa.men of the United States! Read
these trials-ponder them well-and
then go tc the polls and vote for An
crew Jackson-lf you can We advise
all who receive this paper, 10 lay it by
and preserve it carefully. Tney will
nave frequent occasion for reference to il
1 LIST OF acts under which these men we're cali
ca INTO service. and under which they must
~~'S uScN Fitu.
An act to provide for calling forth the militia
'" execute the laws of the union, to suppress
hsnrrectlon, and to repel invaslons--
lsEc a. Ind be it further enacted, That this
mlhta employed in the service of the United
states, shall be subject to the same rules and
a. si'lcies OF war as the troops of the United
states: And that no officer, non.commissioned
queer, or private, OF the militia, shall be com
pened to serve more than three months after his
sfF"al at the place of rendezvous, in any one
year. nor more than in due rotation with every
o.her able bodied man of the same RANK in the
81 battalion to which he belongs.
81 approved, February %, 1881
Laws OF the U. States, arranged and publish.
T 81 Under the authority of an ACT of Congress.
soofFn, Duane and Weightman's edition. vol:
an act TO authorize a detachment from the
"' tn OF the United States.
PEE 81 Ind De it further enacted. That the
ga,u s'achment shall not be compelled TO serve
IT, 'onger term than sac alanihs after hey ar.
re re At the place of rendezvous.
-. tSsc; " lind be IL further enacted, That this
oc suS'' Continue and be in force, tor the term
J,. 80 gears from the passing thereof and no
LApprOveo, Apra l0th, 1927
11'' act IF course expired By il. o.sn GnHtatioa
'Sp'ri loa, 1914.
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