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Excerpt from Argument of Asa Bird Gardner: Counsel for Government, After Conclusion of the Evidence in the Case of Fitz-John Porter Before the Board of Army Officers at West Point, January, 1879 <p>The petitioner's counsel also proposed to present the record of the court-martial and read evidence there taken to the Board preliminarily to introduction of what we may term, colloquially, oral evidence. <p>It also appeared that the names of a number of supposed witnesses, who had written letters, had been sent by the War Department and Army Headquarters either to the President of the Board or myself, who at that time in this case was merely the Recorder of the Board, with such duties as usually pertain to such office and mere regulation boards, where no law prescribes duties such as are prescribed for him on a court of inquiry.' These names of witnesses I communicated to counsel. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.