Cambria County PA Archives Military Records.....McLaughln, James October 27, 1851
 "American Highlanders," attached to the 1st Battalion, 3d Brigade, 16th Division Pennsylvania Volunteers
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Capt. James McLaughln Court Martial
Capt. James McLaughln Court Martial
Head Quarters 16th Division Pa. Vol., Ebensburg, Nov. 11, 1851
General Brigade Orders No. 4.
The general court martial ordered to meet on the 18th October, 1851, by General
Brigade Orders No. 3, dated 23d September, 1851, met at Ebensburg at the time
designated and organized by appointing: Captain Henry Schnetberg, of the Allegheny
Infantry, President of the court. There were present the following officers of the
court, to wit: Captain Richard White, Captain R. S. Alexander, Captain B. McDermit,
and Captain M. Stewart, Captain Wm. A. Smith, Judge Advocate.
The court being duly sworn in the presence of the prisoner, Captain James
McGlaughlin of the "American Highlanders," proceeded to try him on the charges and
specifications preferred.
Charge - Disobedience of orders.
Specification - In this, that the said Captain James McLaughlin, while in command of
a company called the "American Highlanders," attached to the 1st Battalion, 3d
Brigade, 16th Division Pennsylvania Volunteers, at a parade ordered by Lieut. Col.
Heyer, and held at Summitville, Cambria County, Pa., on Friday, 12th day of
September, 1851, after said Lieut. Col. Heyer had ordered a dress parade of said
Battalion, and before the said parade was dismissed, did command his aforesaid
company to leave the line of the Battallion, and did march the said company out of
line, and from the ground during the time the said parade was being held, contrary
to orders.
C. H. HEYER, Lt. Col. 1st Batt. 3d Brig., 16th Div., Pa. Vol.
Brig. Gen: JOSEPH McDONALD.
After the testimony had been gone through, with the court being cleared, and the
whole of the proceedings being read over to the court by the Judge Advocate, the
following finding and sentence was pronounced viz:
The court, after mature deliberation on the testimony adduced, find the prisoner,
Captain James McLaughlin, guilty of the charge and specification, and sentence him
to be suspended from the command of his company until the first day of March, A. D.
1852.
The court adjourned "sine die."
HENRY SCHNETBERG, Captain Allegheny Infantry, President.
Wm. A. Smith, Judge Advocate.
October 27th, 1851.
Proceedings of the court martial approved.
Joseph McDonald, Brigadier General, 3d Brigade, 10th Division, Pennsylvania
Volunteers
Andrew J. Rhey, Aid-de-camp 
(Source: The mountain sentinel: (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853: November 13, 1851)

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