Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, December 26, 1862

I am the officer of the Guard & have to be on duty all night. I have charge of the Military prison & prisoners in this Fort Pickering there is one rebble who claims to be a deserter from their army and wishes to take the oath & be sent north. I have charge of one 2nd Lieut of Co A 130 Ill Inft charged of being absent without leave

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 101

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