Sunday, October 18, 2026

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, February 13, 1863

At 10 Oc one of our company was marched out between two of our soldiers with Bayonets fixed & in the center of our regment formed in a hollow square he was reprimanded as the centance of a Cort martial held yesterday directed, he was tryed & found guilty of stealing one pare of shoes from the Qr master, I drilled the Co & was on dres perade at 4 Oc PM I had the pleasure of a short interview afternoon with Genls Prentiss, Ross, Fisk & Washburn.

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 109

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