An order describing the September 23, 1862 court martial at Camp Montgomery, Mississippi of first lieutenant Thomas C. Baldwin, 7th Iowa Volunteers. Baldwin plead guilty to "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman" (Baldwin had been convicted of being twice drunk in camp and drunkenly taking an African-American woman into his tent bed on the night of September 2, 1862 "with his tent doors open."), the court martial found him guilty, but as the court martial was improperly organized Baldwin's sentence to be dismissed from the service was inoperative. However, because the accused admitted guilt the President of the United States directs that the sentence be carried out.