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Excerpt from Opening Argument for the United States in Rebuttal in the Case of Fitz-John Porter, Before the Advisory Board of Officers: At Governor's Island, N. Y., October 2, 1878
It further appeared that there had been a previous military commis sion ordered to try the accused, but which was dissolved without action, and relative to which the accused alleged that (p. 9, court-martial Record) the subject-matter of its investigation was charges preferred against him 4 by Maj. Gen. John Pope. In reply, the judge-advocate of the court said, referring to the previous military commission, that, in point of fact, no charges were ever pre ferred by major-general Pope; that commission was dissolved and the general court-martial appointed, as first stated that there was no reference in the order appointing the court-martial to General Pope at all; and further, that he wished to state distinctly that major-general Pope was not the prosecutor in the case, nor had he preferred the charges, nor did he, the judge-advocate, present them as being preferred by him. As the accused did not pursue the matter further, the court was cleared for deliberation, and very properly overruled the objection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
