Before a General Court Martial which convened at the Headquarters, Pennsylvania Reserve Division, March 30, 1863, pursuant to General Orders, No. 10, dated March 6, 1863, and Special Orders, No. 55, dated March 23, 1863, Headquarters, Division Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps, Upton”s Hill, Virginia, and of which Colonel William McCandless, 2nd Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers, is President, was arraigned and tried –
1st Lieutenant Charles W. Mackey, 10th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers.
CHARGE.- “Violation of the 52nd Article of War. Misbehavior before the enemy.”
Specification – “That 1st Lieutenant Charles W. Mackey, Company C, 10th Reigment of Infantry, Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps, did, without any just cause, he being in good health at the time, shamefully abandon his Company and Regiment while they were preparing to move to the front to engage the enemy. All this at or near Fredericksburg, Virginia, on or about the 13th day of December, 1862.”
To which charge and specification the accused, 1st Lieutenant Charles W. Mackey, 10th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers, pleaded “Not Guilty.”
FINDING. The Court maving maturely considered the evidence adduced, finds the accused, 1st Lieutenant Charles W. Mackey, 10th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers, as follows:
Of the Specification, “Guilty.”
On the Charge, “Guilty.”
SENTENCE. And the Court does therefore sentence him, 1st Lieutenant Charles W. Mackey, 10th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers, “To forfeit all pay and allowances now due, and to be dishonorably dismissed the service of the Union States.1
