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The preparation of this Reply was delayed until a printed copy
of the Record in the case of Major General Fitz John Porter
Was obtained, and since, by professional engagements, which the
Writer was not at liberty to set aside. It is now submitted in the
confidence that the intelligent and impartial reader will coincide
in opinion with the writer, that a greater injustice was never done
through the forms of a judicial proceeding, than was done by the
sentence of the Court Martial in the ease of that gallant officer.
Baltimore, July, 1863.
Note.—The references to the evidence, &c.;, are to the Record of the trial,
as published by order of the House of Representatives,—Ex. Doc. No. 71. 37th
Congress, 3d Session. /
REPLY.
To vindicate a citizen unjustJy assailed, is the duty of all men who properly estimate the value of individual character and its influence on the
public good. The duty i§ the more imperative, if the services of such
citizen have contributed to the honor of bis country, and have been rendered with great toil and solicitude, and amidst frequent and imminent
perils. To this general obligation ill the instance which causes this
paper, there ...
A Reply to the Review of Judge Advocate General Holt of the Case of Major General Fitz John Porter
