FORT FETTERMAN WYOMING TERRITORY COURTMARTIAL ORDERS 1870 for Sale

FORT FETTERMAN WYOMING TERRITORY COURTMARTIAL ORDERS 1870 For Sale

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FORT FETTERMAN WYOMING TERRITORY COURTMARTIAL ORDERS 1870:
$225.00

Fort Fetterman , a strategic site on the North Platte River was built by the 4th US Infantry in 1867, protecting the Bozeman Trail. The Big Horn, Yellowstone and Powder River Expeditions began at the Fort. An Original Fort Fetterman General Order issued April 16, 1870 at HQ Dept of the Platte, Omaha, Nebraska, detailing the courtmartial of 6 enlisted men of the 4th US Infantry at Fort Fetterman, charges including leaving a post as sentinel, playing cards using metallic centre-primed ball cartridges as stakes,Desertion, creating a disturbance while a prisoner in the guard house and striking the sergeant of the guard. The sentences include confinement at hard labor wearing a 12 pound ball and chain. The order bears a page 1 lower margin red ink notation "Headqrs Ft Fetterman, Wy Ter". The order was issued by command of General Augur and is ink signed on page 5 by 2nd Lt Rufus P (Porter) Brown , 4th Infantry, as Post Adjutant. 0A 5 pp Complete Order, from the estate of Lt Brown. Approx 7.4 x 4.3", disbound with trim not affecting text and acid free archival edge repair, age stains, mInor wear, Overall VG.The Fort was abandoned in the 1880s and this is one of the few Fort Fetterman items I have seen.