Edward D. Townsend, General Court Martial Orders, No. 585
1865-10-21
- Date of Creation
- October 21, 1865
- Place of Creation
- Washington, District of Columbia
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- Legal/Financial
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- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
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- Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
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- BR16-174 to BR16-175
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- KYR-0001-004-2610
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Edward D. Townsend, General Court Martial Orders, No. 585, 1865-10-21, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-2610 (December 16, 2025).
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington,
GENERAL COURT MARTIAL
Orders, No. 585.
In the case of George A. Hanaford, late Lieutenant-Colonel 124th U S. Colored Troops, sentenced by a General Court Martial "To be cashiered; and that he be confined at hard labor in such Prison as the General commanding may direct for the term of three (3) years, and further confined for the period of ten (10) years unless he refund to the Government the sum of two thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars ($2,247,) of which sum six hundred and thirty-three ($633) is in notes; that the crime, name and place of abode, and punishment, be published in the newspapers where he formerly resided, and in the Louisville Journal." and now imprisoned in the Kentucky Penitentiary, at Frankfort, Kentucky, as promulgated in General Court Martial Orders, No. 94, dated Headquarters, Department of Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky,
He will be released from confinement.
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
E. D. Townsend,
Assistant Adjutant General.
OFFICIAL:
Assistant Adjutant General.
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