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Ters, and violating the 46th Article of War. To which charge the
prisoner, in a firm voice, replied: "Not guilty of wilful neglect of
duty, though found
sleeping upon my post." The Judge Advocate then cautioned all
witnesses to withdraw from the court and come only as they were
called. They withdrew, and he then arranged some preliminaries of the
examination, and called in--Captain Zuten, of the ---- Regiment of
Infantry. This witness was a short, coarse-featured, red-haired
person of Dutch extraction, without intellect enough to enable
him to conceal the malignity of his nature. He testified that on
Thursday, the first of September, Traverse Rocke, private in his
company, was ordered on guard at the northwestern outpost of the
quarters, between the hours of four
and eight a.m. That about five o'clock on the same morning, he, Joseph
Zuten, in making his usual
rounds, and being

accompanied on that occasion by Colonel Gabriel Le Noir, Lieutenant