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Re: Court Marshal of Captain Posey
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I cannot find information on his court-martial, however, here is information on his get together with the President. This may have had some influence on his subsequent charges.

. . . Posey returned to his regiment during the Atlanta Campaign and began his letter writing to the press again. He even wrote a letter to Confederate President Jefferson Davis on September 22, 1864, just before the President’s visit to the Army of Tennessee on September 25, 26 and 27, 1864, near Palmetto, Georgia. He criticizes the Army command, and particularly General John Bell Hood and the withdrawal from Atlanta, with the destruction of the Army’s munitions. “This army has no confidence in the skill & capacity of General Hood. It has on the contrary, a fixed, ineradicable distrust of him, in this respect. I cannot be mistaken in this matter. This army will not, cannot make a successful fight under his command.” It is very surprising that the President granted him time on September 26, 1864. Their conversation is not recorded but there is the expected letter from Captain Posey to the press soon after outlining his complaints and recommendations. . . .

. . . He was paid $260 dollars (2 months' pay) on December 15, 1864, awaiting trial by court martial at Montgomery, Alabama, under arrest by order of Major General (H. D.) Clayton, Special Order No. 40/15 dated February 17, 1865. He was dropped from the rolls on February 17, 1865. . .
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