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The Middleburgh Post
Middleburg, Snyder County, Pennsylvania
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In Augusta, Ga., on March 21, General Young issued an order criticizing officers for their handling of a riot by the Fifteenth Minnesota Regiment on March 4-5, where a soldier was killed by a saloonkeeper, and expressed regret over punishing enlisted men while incompetent officers escape discipline.
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Augusta, Ga., March 21.—General Young has issued an order severely criticizing the commissioned officers and the finding of the court martial in the trial of the rioters of the Fifteenth Minnesota regiment which occurred March 4 and 5, when one of their number was killed by a saloonkeeper. He says in part: "The deplorable inefficiency, incapacity, weakness and timidity exhibited by nearly all of those commissioned officers present at the disgraceful and violent outbreak in the camp is incredible except on the abundant sworn testimony of said officers themselves. It is with profound regret that the corps commander finds himself constrained to punish enlisted men while, through circumstances beyond his control, certain officers unworthy of the commissions they hold are permitted to go home with clean records."
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Augusta, Ga.
Event Date
March 21
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one soldier killed by a saloonkeeper during the riot; enlisted men punished, officers not.
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General Young issued an order criticizing commissioned officers for inefficiency during a riot by the Fifteenth Minnesota Regiment on March 4 and 5, and the court martial's findings; he regrets punishing enlisted men while unworthy officers go unpunished.