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ial sentenced him to be drummed out of camp.--With the placard "coward" on his back in staring letters, he was placed between two files of soldiers, the first having arms reversed as at a funeral, and the second in "charge bayonet" style, the points of the weapons being put close to the culprit's person. In this order the miserable man was paraded through the camp, preceded by drummers and lifers playing the Rogne's March. The next cases in order are those of Capt Williams Badger and Capt David O Burleigh, officers of New Hampshire regiments, who were charged with cowardice, misbehavior before the enemy, and various other military offences. The sentence of the court was that they be "cashiered, " which was duly carried into effect. The same paper contains a large number of death sentences passed on private soldiers for desertion. Charles Lewellyn and Peter C Mull, citizens of Norfolk, were charged with "harboring, comforting, and concealing persons serving in the rebel arm