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Headquarters Expeditionary
Forces Line of the Nueces Banquete March 9, 1864 Special Orders #4 Extract Captain Ware,
Taylor, or Cater are appointed to and will constitute a board of investigation,
survey, and appraisement to examine into, investigate, appraise, and forthwith
report upon the condition, quantity and value of a lot of Cotton, Provisions,
Wagons, animals and Harness sized by Lt. John Walker of Captain Richardson’s
Company, when as reported, moving on the road toward being in close proximity
to or within the enemy lines. Their report will give the
appearance and condition, marks, number, and aggregate weight of the Bale of
Cotton, quantity and quality of Provisions, number, kind and condition of
Wagons, kind, quantity and condition of Harness, number, kind and condition of
animals with their brands and description, character, kind, and quantity of all
other property or articles found with or pertaining to said seized train. The Board will also carefully and impartially
investigate the circumstances connected with the movements and seizure of said
property and forthwith report the result of their investigation to these
headquarters. They will ascertain if and
that from his own statement as to the time of the arrest of his - - by
Lieutenant Walker. He was aware of the
fact that he was - - - a military order and was doing so with the intention of
evading impressment by Confederate officers and that there was nothing to
sustain an interaction of a - - - of reasonable correspondence with the
enemy. That there is some extenuation of
his attempt to carry cotton and pass himself and teamsters beyond the line of
the Nueces without the proper permit and passports in the representations made to
him by officers in the Confederate service who ignored or disregarded orders
from district headquarters. There is no
- - - of his attempt to deliver his cotton at a point lower than the designated
in general orders from district headquarters.
Appended to this I have the honor to return an inventory of property
seized from said Brown and also the sworn statement of Brown and others and the
alleged authority under which he assumed to be traveling marked as designated
in statement of Brown and made a part of his statements. James A. Ware Captain, CSA Presiding Board T. C. Cater, Captain,
Commanding Company Colonel J. S. Ford,
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