Summary

Portrait of Benjamin F. Gue Benjamin F. Gue History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century… (1903)

Instead of entering his honorable discharge on the records, dating from March 8, 1863, the Adjutant-General’s Department erroneously made the entry “Dismissed.” This error has never been corrected in the public Reports of that office: hence writers of war history have been misled and great injustice done a gallant Iowa officer.
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