The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-08-04
GENERAL ORDERS !
HEADQUARTERS Dept Penn'a.


Before General Court Martial convened at
Harrisburg, Pa. Feb 23d, 1865, pursuant to
special orders No A dated February 22d, 1860,
Headquarters Dept Pa. Philadelphia, and OF
which Captain n II Rendlett, 18th Regt. V.
R. c.. is president were arraigned and tried--9th
Philip Kline drafted man on the following
charge and specification, charge desertlon'
Specifcation-In this that the said Philip
Kline, was on the 9Th day Of Dec. 1865, draf-
ted into the military service of the United
States from the 9th sub district 18th district
Pa, for one year according to due form OF law,
duly notified to report on the 10th day OF Dec
1864, but failed to report, was arrested on the
29th of June, 1865, examined by the Board OF
Enrolment, found fit for dHty and held to SER
vice, to which charge and specification the ac-
cused Philip Kline, drafted man plead guilty
Finding, the Court after mature deliberation
on the evidence adduced finds the accused Philip
Kline, drafted man, as follows, of the speciffca-
ton,-guilty OF the charge
SENTENCE,
And the court does therefore sc atence MIN,
the sad Philip Kline drafted man, to be con-
fined at hard labor, at such place as the COM
manding General may direct, for the period OF
one year, with the loss of all pay and allow
euces now due or may become due during
such time and then serve one year IN the Uni
ted States army. The proceedings, findings and
sentence are approved, the prisoner will be
sent under proper guard TO Fors Mltiiln, near
Philadelphia, Pa. The commanding officer at
Fort Miff1in is charged with the execution OF
this sentence. By command Of
Maj Gen. Cadwalladerr
OFFICIAL,
(Signedl Albert Harper, A. A. General.
On the 18th of June writing to his Father
under date at ''Fort Miffiini" he says:
IF they wont release me, can bear 1t to
the end, for if am to suffer because l don't
believe in shedding blood ] will bear It,
would rather take this penalty than to do IN
opposition to my feelings on the subject of war.
Every one should act for himself and let others
do the same. l judge no man, bat God is the
one TO Judge.
I did not report when asked, but think to
be really guilty of desertion in the sense of the
word am not, for I never ran off, or hid from
an arrest, nor resisted in any way. / am more
and more convinced that war is wicked, since I
am about military scenes. @, that people
would learn war no more, but learn to love one
another A week later ardhe writes as follows:
FORT MIFFLIN,
June 25th, 1865.
Dear Father, I take the opportunity to let
you know that am very poorly. can't hard
iv speak, am in the hospital and want to
know if you have done anything for me to try
to qet me out, and would ike to have some
of YOU to come down to see me, for | am very
low. | can't stand it much longer, if l don't
get better soon; but, | hope that these few
lines will find you all we'll. | want you to do
something for me as soon as you can for L can't
stand it much longer in this place.
p A. KLINE.
| And then comes the mournful intelligence OF
| his decease.
FORT MIFFLIN,
July 4th, 1865,
Mr.. Samuel Kline, Dear Sir:-I write you
n few lines to let you know that your son
Philip A. Kline is dead. He died this evening
about half past seven O'Clock with the Diarrhea.
| | think he is in better world than this. lie
prayed till the last for himself and family.
ABIJAH HESS.
It was after the war was over-the rebellion
ended, peace returning, this man was tried,
convicted, sentenced and punished to the death.
He died in peace.--But his blood cries from
the ground His orphaned children, his wild
owed wife, the bereaved family, they mourn and
weep; but they rely upon an Almighty Helper
and Deliverer, for "Vengeance is mine and
will repay, saith the Lord"
The NEGROES SoUTH-The radical Gov.
Coney of Maine, in letter, has the following
to say about the Southern blacks:
"Among them the marital and parental re-
lations, as legal condition, have been utterly
ignored and the race conde mned to the level oi
brutes, presenting a spectacle of abhorrent In
decency which, had it been the only reproaet
J of the institution of slavery, was enough to cal
down upon it the execration of mankind"
t Granting that this may be good argument
against slavery, is it not an equally potent on'
r against entrusting the ballotbox to the keeping
of such degraded beingss