NEW-YORK, SEPTEMBER 10, 1827. TO THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY. IT IS A FACT, WELL KNOWN TO ALL OF YOU, THAT COLONEL JOHN McNEIL OF THE FIRST REGIMENT OF INFANTRY, WAS ARRESTED, TRIED, AND "HONOURABLY ACQUITTED," BY A GENERAL COURT MARTIAL, WHICH ASSEMBLED (FOR THAT PURPOSE,) AT GREEN BAY, MICHIGAN TERRITORY, ON THE 5th DAY OF JUNE, 1826...[caption title and beginning of text]

[New York, 1827].. 22pp. Gathered signatures, stitched, formerly stab-sewn. Soft vertical crease. Foxed and toned. Very good. A scarce account of a court-martial for Colonel John McNeil, who had allegedly forbidden a civilian, John P. Arndt, from entering Fort Howard, near Green Bay in Michigan Territory. Arndt was a known trafficker in illegal liquor, and was banned by Colonel McNeil as a result. McNeil was arrested for lying about giving the order banning Arndt from the fort, but was subsequently acquitted. The text of the present work includes testimony and excerpts from letters supporting the charges made against McNeil, mainly from a most aggrieved Lieutenant James Watson Webb, who truly seems to have it in for McNeil and his two main supporters, General Winfield Scott and Colonel Henry Leavenworth.

Very scarce, with only two copies in OCLC, at the New York Public Library and the Boston Athenaeum. An unusual frontier military incident. OCLC 44388082. (Inventory #: WRCAM52769)