GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 127. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, May 15, 1863. 
I..Before a General Court Martial, which convened at former Head- 
quarters of Major General Rosecrans, on High street, in the city of 
Nashville, Tennessee, January 17, 1863, pursuant to General Orders, 
No. 2, dated Headquarters, United States Forces, Nashville, Tennessee, 
January 15tli, 1863, and of which Major Charles S. Cowan, 10th 
Illinois Volunteers, is President, was arraigned and tried— 
Private Milton Armstrong, Company C, 68th Indiana Volunteers. 
Charge.—“Sleeping upon his post.” 
Specification—“ In this ; that on the night of February 8th, A. D. 1863, 
the said Milton Armstrong, private of Company C, 68th regiment 
of Indiana Volunteers, having been duly detailed for picket 
guard at one of the picket stations in the vicinity of Nashville, 
Tennessee, and placed on duty as such picket guard at said 
station, did then and there suffer and allow himself, during said 
night, to sleep on his said post for the space of one hour. All 
this in the vicinity of Nashville, Tennessee.” 
To which charge and specification the accused, Private Milton Arm- 
strong, Company C, 68th Indiana Volunteers, pleaded “Not Guilty.” 
Finding. 
The Court, having maturely considered the evidence adduced, finds 
the accused, Private Milton Armstrong, Company C, 68th Indiana Vol- 
unteers, as follows: 
Of the Specification, except the clause “for the space of one hour,’’ 
“ Guilty.” 
Of the Chabgi, “Guilty.” 
Sentence. 
And the Court do therefore sentence him, Private Milton Armstrong, 
of Company C, 68th Indiana Volunteers, “ To he shot to death with 2 
musketry, at such time and place as the Commanding General of the Department 
of the Cumberland may appoint, two-thirds of the Court concurring in the fore- 
going sentence 
II. -The proceedings in the foregoing case have been approved by the 
proper commanders, and forwarded for the action of the President of 
the United States, who directs that the sentence be commuted to im- 
prisonment in some military prison for three months from the 11th 
day of May, 1863. 
The Commanding General of the Department of the Cumberland 
will designate the military prison to which the prisoner will be sent. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.