Major-General Henry W. Halleck’s Special Orders No. 160, February 24, 1862

SPECIAL ORDERS

No. 160.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,

Saint Louis, February 24, 1862.

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IV. A military commission is hereby appointed to meet at Columbia. Mo., on Monday, the 24th instant, at 10 a.m., or as soon thereafter as practicable for the trial of such persons as may be brought before it.

Detail for the commission: Col. Lewis Merrill, Merrill's Horse; Lieut. Col. William F. Shaffer, Merrill's Horse; Capt. Theodore Pierson, Merrill's Horse; First Lieut. George M. Houston, Merrill's Horse; First Lieut. R. A. Howard, Merrill's Horse, who will act as judge-advocate and recorder.

The commission will sit without regard to hours.

By order of Major-General Halleck:

N. H. McLEAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series II, Volume 1 (Serial No. 114), p. 448-9