GENERAL ORDERS, ) WAR DEPARTMENT,

v Adjutant General’s Office,

No. 206. ) Washington, December 17, 1862.

I- -At a Military Commission, which convened at Norfolk, Virginia, December 2, 1862, pursuant to Special Orders, No. 177, dated Head¬ quarters, Department of Virginia, 7th Army Corps, December 1, 1862, and of which Colonel H. T Sanders, 19th Wisconsin Volunteers, was President, was arraigned and tried Frederick Letz, teamster.

Charge. — “ Murder.”

Specification — “In this; that said Frederick Letz, teamster, at Camp Hamilton, Elizabeth City county, Virginia, on the 22d day of September, A. D. 1862, did unlawfully and maliciously shoot and kill a colored man whose name is unknown.”

To which charge and specification the prisoner pleaded —

Of the Specification, “Guilty.”

Of the Charge, “ Not Guilty.”

Finding.

After mature deliberation on the evidence adduced, the Court finds the prisoner as follows:

Of the Specification, “Guilty.”

Of the Charge, “Guilty.”

Sentence.

And the Court does therefore sentence the said Frederick Letz, team¬ ster, “ to be hanged by the neck until he be dead, at stick time and place as the Major General in command of the 7th Army Corps may direct, after the approval of this sentence by the President of the United States .”

II- -In accordance with the 5th section of the act approved July 17, 1862, the proceedings and sentence in the case of Frederick Letz, teamster, have been submitted to the President of the United States, and are by him approved.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant General.