Adjutant and Inspector (General’s Office, 
Richmond, November 15, 1862. 
GENERAL ORDERS, \ 
No. 87. 5 
At a General Court Martial, convened at Savannah, Georgia, September 
20, 1862, pursuant to Special Orders, No. 118, dated July 28, 18(52, from 
the Head Quarters of the Department of' South Carolina and Georgia, 
was arraigned and tried Ist Lieutenant Alexander Doyle, Company 
A, 47th Georgia Volunteers, on the following charges and specifications: 
Charge Ist, Violation of the 36th Article of War. 
Specification, Misapplication and embezzlement of 
Rations belonging to his Company. 
Charge 2d, Violation of the 9th Article of War. 
Specification, Disobedience of the orders of his supe. 
rior officer. 
Finding and Sentence of the Court. 
The Court find the accused, Ist Lieutenant Alexander Doyle, Company 
A, 47th Georgia Volunteers, as follows': 
Of the Specification, Ist Charge, Guilty. 
Of the Ist Charge, Not Guilty. 
Of the Specification of the 2d Charge, Guilty. 
Of the 2d Charge, Guilty. 
And the Court do therefore sentence the said Ist Lieutenant Alexander 
Doyle, Company A, 47th Georgia Volunteers, P. A. C. S., to be cashiered. 
11. The proceedings in the foregoing case having been submitted to 
the President, the following is his decision thereon: 
* * * The accused was not found guilty of violating the 36th Ar- 
ticle of War, The finding of the Court on the charge of violating the 
9th Article of War is scarcely sustained by the evidence, it appearing to 
have been rather an enquiry and answer than an order and refusal to 
©bey. Sentence remitted. 
111. First Lieutenant Alexander Doyle, Company A, 47th Georgia 
Volunteers, will therefore be released from arrest, and restored to duty. 
order. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
S. COOPER,