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File copy manuscript document, 1p, approx. 7.5 x 10.75 in., detailing the charges against Private Alexander James Young Co. E, 3rd Virginia Infantry, originally submitted by Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher Harris Archer, Commanding Officer of the regiment. Fletcher alleges that an intoxicated Young stole daguerreotype plates from a gallery and generally conducted himself in an unseemly manner, and his story is corroborated by five witnesses from Company E, as well as the photographer himself, a man named Utley from Smithfield, VA. Document reads in part, "Charge and Specifications against Alexander James Young a private in Company (E) 3rd Regiment Virginia Volunteers Commanded by Colonel Robert Pryor. / Charge. Conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline. . . [Young] did. . . take and carry away from the Daguerrean Room of one Utley. . . a box of Daguerrean plates. . . In this, that the said private Alexander James Young at the time and place afore said did get drunk and being drunk did behave in a riotous and disorderly manner." Alexander Young enlisted on April 20, 1861 at Petersburg and mustered into Company E of the 3rd Virginia Infantry. He apparently remained with his regiment following this incident, though he did run away later in the Civil War. He was received as a deserter at Headquarters at Bermuda Hundred on January 30, 1865. Fletcher Archer was commissioned into the 3rd Virginia Infantry in May of 1861 and was wounded three times during his service. After the war, he served as the mayor of Petersburg. Condition: Creasing as expected, with some scattered spotting and a few small tears to edges. With embossed emblem of Southworth Manufacturing Company to upper left corner.