“Lieutenant-Colonel J. STEDMAN,
“Charles A. Davis, Adjutant.
“To Captain Davis W. Bailey,
“Company H, 42d Regt., Mass. Vols.”
Until May 14th the captain remained at Gentilly Bayou, when he was allowed the limits of New Orleans, until the findings in his case were promulgated.
The charges and specifications in this case, and findings of the Court, were as follows—copied from General Orders, No. 48, Nineteenth Army Corps:
CHARGE FIRST.
“Disobedience of Orders.”
Specification—“In this: that he, Captain Davis W. Bailey, Company H, Forty-Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, when ordered by Lieutenant-Colonel J. Stedman, in the execution of his office, and through Captain O. W. Leonard, senior captain of Companies C and H, Forty-Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and to whom the order was addressed, to send to the regimental headquarters his company Descriptive Book, did absolutely refuse and fail so to do. All this at Camp Parapet, Louisiana, on or about the thirteenth day of April, 1863.”
CHARGE SECOND.
“Conduct unbecoming an Officer and Gentleman.”