James Madison Cutts
Court Martial
CINCINNATI, OHIO , June 30 , 1863– 9 o'clock a. m.
"I have respectfully to submit to the court the following as my plea to the specifications and charge:
"To the 1st specification, Not guilty.'
"To the 2d specification, Not guilty.'
"Of so much of the 3d specification as stands in words and figures as follows, namely: 'In the evening of said day. at about half past eleven o'clock, after said lady had retired to her room, take a valise or portmanteau from his room and it in one of the open halls of tho house against the jamb or door of said room occupied by said lady, placing himself thereon did look through the venetian blind or transom light in or over the door into said room and at said lady.' I acknowledge the facts with deep regret, but alleging no criminality plead guilty. Of all the rest of the said specification and of all the words or parts of it omitted in this plea I plead not guilty.'
"Of the charge, 'Not guilty.'
"J. M. Cutts,
"Capt. 11th Infty, Judge-Advocate. Dept. of Ohio."
This court martial is recorded in a number of places, the proximal source being:
Lieut. Col. J. Madison Cutts, Mr. Wheeler of Alabama, from the Committee on Military Affairs, Submitted the Following Supplemental Report (to Accompany H.R. 2110) By United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs, 1892.