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Daniel Hibler was placed under military arrest in Kentucky about the 15th of January, 1862, for having in December, 1861, murdered a soldier who was on sentinel guard by shooting him through the head. Hibler was badly wounded at the same time by a fellow-soldier of the murdered man, but recovered. He was a violent secessionist and had in the early part of the summer purchased about eighty minie rifles to arm a Kentucky rebel company. his shooting the soldier was represented to have been a deliberate murder. It was advised by Hon. Garrett Davis that Hibler be tried by military court-martial. No information has been received at the Department of State showing what disposition was made of his case by the military or civil authorities of Kentucky.
SOURCE: Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series 2, Volume 2, pgs. 339-340
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