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Excerpt from Charges and Specifications With Copy of Orders: Defence of Accused, Read Before a Court Martial Convened in the City of New York, December 10, 1863 Charges and Specifications preferred against Warren Webster, Assistant-Surgeon U. S. A. Charge I. - "Disobedience of orders." Specification - "In this, that he, the said Warren Webster, Asst. Surgeon U. S. A., in charge of the McDougall General Hospital, having received an order from Brigadier-General Canby, commanding the city and harbor of New York, (through Brigadier-General Brown, commanding Fort Schuyler, ) based upon an order from the War Department, (which said order accompanied the order of Brigadier-General Canby, and was read by Surgeon Webster, ) to arrest and send to Fort Columbus, private Philip Fitzsimmons, of Company 'F', 40th Regt. N. Y. Volunteers, a deserter and an inmate of his Hospital, did refuse to obey the said order. All this at or near Fort Schuyler, New York, between the 10th and 15th November, 1863." Charge II. - "Conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline." 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.