. . . from camp at Washington that he has just “carried the log”
for three hours as the penalty for shooting a hog while on sentinel duty. He had orders to “let nothing pass,” and
after a short tussle with the porker, he had to give in or shoot.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 8, 1862, p. 2
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