GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 187. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, June 24, 1833. 
I..Before a General Court Martial, which convened at Camp Mont- 
gomery, Mississippi, September 23, 1862, pursuant to General Orders, 
No. 22, dated September 8,1862; Special Orders, No, 64, dated Septem- 
ber 15, 1862; and Special Orders, No. 67, dated September 16, 1862, 
Headquarters, 2d Division, and of which Colonel T. W. Sweeney,52d 
Illinois Volunteers, is President, was arraigned and tried— 
First Lieutenant Thomas C. Baldwin, 7th Iowa Volunteers. 
Charge.—“ Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.” 
Specification 1st—“ In this; that Thomas C. Baldwin, 1st Lieutenant Of 
Company‘A,’7th Regiment Iowa Volunteers, commanded by 
Colonel Elliott W. Rice, did, on the 20tli day of August, 1862, 
in camp, two miles east of Corinth, in the presence of the Com- 
pany, get drunk while in command of the Company.” 
Specification 2d—“In this; that Thomas C. Baldwin, 1st Lieutenant*of 
Company ‘A,’ 7th Regiment Iowa Infantry, commanded by 
Colonel Elliott W. Rice, did, in camp, two miles east of Corinth, 
in the presence of Companies ‘A’ and ‘ C,’ of the 7th Iowa 
Volunteers, on the afternoon of the 2d day of September, 1862, 
get drunk.” 
Specification 3d—“In this; that Thomas C. Baldwin, 1st Lieutenant of 
Company ‘A,’ 7th Regiment Iowa Volunteers, on the night of 
the 2d day of September, 1862, did take a negro wench into his 
tent, took her in bed with him, and lay with her until nearly 
midnight, with his tent doors open.” 
To which charge and specifications the accused, 1st Lieutenant 
Thomas C. Baldwin, 7th Iowa Volunteers, pleaded “Guilty.” 2 
Finding. 
The Court, having maturely considered the evidence adduced, finds 
the accused, 1st Lieutenant Thomas C. Baldwin, 7th Iowa Volunteers, 
as follows: 
Of the 1st Specification, “Guilty.” 
Of the 2d Specification, “ Guilty.” 
Of the 3d Specification, “Guilty.” 
Of the Charge, “ Guilty.” 
Sentence. 
And the Court does therefore sentence him, 1st Lieutenant Thomas 
C. Baldwin, 7th Iowa Volunteers, “To he dismissed from the service." 
II..The proceedings in the foregoing case have been forwarded for 
the action of the President of the United States. The record is fatally 
defective in not showing that the Court was properly organized, and 
the sentence is therefore inoperative; but as the accused admitted his 
guilt of a most gross and debasing offence, the President directs that 
he be dismissed the service, and 1st Lieutenant Thomas C. Baldwin, 
7th Iowa Volunteers, accordingly ceases to be an officer of the United 
States Army from the 16th day of June, 1863. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.