General Orders No. 149 Oct. 24 1864, Trial and Sentence, US Colored Troops

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Document regarding a rape on a colored woman by a colored troop member,
HEADQUARTERS. Department of the South,
HILTON HEAD, 8. O. October 24, 1864
GENERAL ORDERS
No 149
I. Before a Military Commission which convened at Hilton Head, S.C. . pursuant to special Orders No. 335, current series, from these Headquarters, and of which Lieut. Col. E O GEARY, 32d U.S.C.T., is President, was arraigned and tried :
Prince Chaplin (Colored.)
Charge “Rape."
Specification--” in this that said Prince Chaplin, (Colored, did, while
returning from the Store of John Hunt, with Rosina Pinckney, (Colored.) ask her, Rosina Pinckney, to sleep with him, and un being refused such request, by said Rosina Pinckney, did, by free and violence, commit a rape on the person of said Rosina Pinckney." This at or near Tripps Plantation, St. Helena
Island, S. C., on or about the 19th day of April, 1864. To which charge and specification the accused pleaded, * Not Guilty."
FINDING:
The Commission having maturely considered the evidence adduced. find the accused, Prince Chaplin, (Colored,) as follows:
of the Specification, Guilty."
of the Charge, Guilty."
SENTENCE
And the Commission do therefore sentence him, Prince Chaplin, (Colored) “To be confined at hard labor for the period of nine months, at such place as the commanding General may direct."
II. The proceedings, finding and sentence in the foregoing case are approved
The apparent disproportion of the punishment to the heinous crime charged, is justified only by the peculiar circumstances of the case. Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla., is designated as the place for the execution of the sentence.
BY COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL J. G. FOSTER.
W. L. M. BURGER,
Assistant Adjutant General.
OFFICIAL:
Measures approximately 8 by 5
Box J 11172021
Weight 0 ounces