Raynors HCA 2017-12
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Union court martial document by 17th Ct. field officer who was wounded and captured by Confederate guerrillas in Florida.The original manuscript document is 2 1/4pp. folio, Fort Trumbull, CT, Feb. 9, 1864, being Special Orders No. 55 in which several recruits of the 11th Conn. Vols. were found guilty of being absent without leave. They are sentenced: "to be confined to the guard, standing on a barrel, or something of the kind, in front of the guard house…". Signed by Lt. Col. Albert H. Wilcoxson who died as a POW at Tallahassee after being wounded and captured by Confederate guerrillas while on a raid near Dunn's Lake, Florida on Feb. 5, 1865.
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