GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 148. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, May 26, 1863. 
I. .Before a General Court Martial, which convened at Fort Columbus, 
New York Harbor, March 10, 1862, pursuant to Special Orders, No. 13, 
dated February 7, 1863, Special Orders, No. 16, dated February 10, 
1863, Special Orders, No. 17, dated February 11, 1863, and Special 
Orders, No. 30, dated March 2, 1863, Headquarters Department of the 
East, New York city, and of which Colonel G. Loomis, 5th United 
States Infantry, is President, was arraigned and tried— 
Private Ambrose Hall, Company B, Music Boys. 
Charge—“Conduct prejudicial to good order and military discip- 
line.” 
Specification—“In this; that the said Private Ambrose Hall, Company 
B, Music Boys, United States Army, did feloniously abstract 
from the pocket of Private George Rice, Company K, 91st Regi- 
ment New York Volunteers, the sum of one hundred dollars 
and thirty-five cents. This at Fort Columbus, New York Har- 
bor, on or about the fourth day of March, 1863.” 
To which charge and specification the accused, Private Ambrose Hall, 
Company B, Music Boys, pleaded “Guilty.” 
Finding. 
The Court, having maturely considered the evidence adduced, finds 
the accused, Private Ambrose Hall, Company B, Music Boys, as follows: 
Of the Specification, “Guilty.” 
Of the Charge, “Guilty.” 
Sentence 
And the Court does therefore sentence him, Private Ambrose Hall, 
Company B, Music Boys, ‘ ‘ To be confined in the penitentiary of the District 2 
of Columbia for the unexpired portion of his enlistment, and to be dishonorably 
discharged the service at the expiration of said sentence, and to forfeit all pay and 
allowances meanwhile. ’ ’ 
II..In compliance with the 5th section of the act approved July 17, 
1862, the proceedings in the foregoing case have been submitted to the 
President of the United States, who approves the sentence, and directs 
that the prisoner be sent to the State prison at SiDg Sing, Newr York. 
By order of tiie Secretary of War : 
E. D TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.