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by Court Martial. He wrote a note to the Col. demanding that he should be allowed the privilege of his resignation, the consequence was, a Regimental Court Martial Maj. Vifquain as judge. The charge against him was, that he appeared when we mustered for pay at Youngs Point, without his stripes on his arms. I was one of his principal, and swore that he did have his stripes on, at the said time. Beam did not gain any thing but the sympathies of most of the Officers in the Reg. The verdict of the judge was, that he had not the power to recind the order of reducing him, but that he considered the order of reducing him unjust. I think Beam will take it to a higher Court, although he did not say much about it. The Pay Master is paying the 130 Reg. Ills. to day. We shall be paid two months more pay in a few days. I do not know as there is any chance of sending this shall do so by the first oportunity. With much love from Carlie [begin vertical writing] I send you a paper A diary of a Soldiers life [vertical writing end]