Adjutant and Inspector General” b Officer 
GENERAL ORDERS, I 
No. 156. V 
Richmond, Nov. 30, 1863. 
of’ August 10, 1863, Head Quarters Army of' Northern Virginia, was ar- 
raigned and tried: 
I. At a Geneva! Court Martial, convened by Special Orders, No. 106, 
Col. R. M. Mayo, 47th Va. Regiment, on the following Charge and 
Specification: 
Charge—Drunkenness on duty. 
Specification—ln this, that Col. R. M. Mayo, 47th Virginia Regiment,, 
while on duty in command of the provost guard at Hagerstown, Md., for 
the protection of its inhabitants, and the establishment of order and quiet 
hi the town, did become intoxicated on or about the Bth of July 1860. 
11. FINDING AND SENTENCE OF THE COURT. 
The Court find the accused. Col. R. M. Mayo, 47th Virginia Regiment, 
as follows: 
Of the Specification.. Guilty. 
Of the Charge, Guilty- 
And do therefore sentence him to he cashiered. 
111. The proceedings in the foregoing case, approved by the Command’ 
ing General, having been submitted to the President, with the recommen 
clarions of the officers formerly associated with Col. Mayo, and others, for 
his restoration, the following is the President’s decision in the case: 
“ Sentence remitted, on the recommendations submitted. Let the 
officer be restored to duty.” 
Col. R- M. Mayo, 47th Virginia Volunteers, is therefore restored to his-; 
command, and will immediately report for orders to Gen. R. E. Lee. 
order. 
Adjutant and Inspector General. 
S. COOPER,