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ADDITIONAL SPECIFICATION TO THE CHARGE AGAINST Brigadier General J. T. OWEN, U. S. VOLUNTEERS.
Specification 3.- In taht Brigadier General J. T. Owen, U. S. Volunteers, having been ordered by his commanding officer, Brigadier General John Gibbon, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Second Division, Second Corps, to assault the enemy's works with his brigade in column in rear of the right of Colonel Smyth's brigade, and not to deploy his column until the head of it reached the enemy's entrenchments, did fail to obey said order and did form his brigade in a deployed line before reaching the enemy's works and to the left of Colonel Smyth. This near Colonel Harbor, Va., on or about the 3rd of June, 1864.
JOHN GIBON,
Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Commanding Division.
Witnesses: Brigadier-General Gibbon, U. S. Volunteers; Colonel T. A. Smyth, First Delaware Volunteers; Captain F. W. Butterfield, assistant inspector-general Third Brigadier.
[First indorsement.]
HEADQUARTERS SECOND CORPS,
June 8, 1864.Respectfully forwarded.
It being considered that a proper court cannot at this time be convected in this command.
WINF'D S. HANNCOCK,
Major-General of Volunteers, Commanding.
[Second indorsement.]
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
June 24, 1864.Respectfully forwarded to the headquarters armies in the field, Brigadier-General Owen having been ordered to Fort Monroe in arrest by Lieutenant-General Grant.
GEO. G. MEADE.
Major-General, Commanding.
[Third indorsement.]
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,
City point, June 27, 1864.Respectfully forwarded to the Secretary of War, with the recommendation that Brigadier General J. T. Owen be mustered out of the service.
U. S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-General.
[Fourth indorsement.]
Respectfully referred to the President.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
[Fifth indorsement.]
JULY 16, 1864.
Recommendation of General Grant approved.*
A. LINCOLN.
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* General Owen was mustered out of service by Special Orders, Numbers 241, War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, July 18, 1864.
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