- Charles Lawrence Pierson, Union Brigadier General, 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and Massachusetts 39th Regiment – “Ball’s Bluff” Hardcover, Very Good, Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Salem Press Company, Publication Date: 1913, 1st Edition signed with inscription from author. No other markings. Binding is firm. Light wear to boards. A civil war monograph of the author's experiences as an adjutant general of 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. “Charles Lawrence Pierson was promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on 01 Jul 1861. Commissioned an officer in Company S, Massachusetts 20th Infantry Regiment on 27 Jul 1861. Promoted to Full Lt Colonel on 31 Aug 1862. Mustered out on 05 Sep 1862. Commissioned an officer in Company S, Massachusetts 39th Infantry Regiment on 06 Sep 1862.c Promoted to Full Colonel on 13 Jul 1864. Promoted to Brevet Colonel on 13 Mar 1865. Mustered out on 04 Jan 1865. Promoted to Brevet Brig-General on 13 Mar 1865. Charles L. Peirson, from Lieut. Colonel July 13, 1864; owing to the stress of the "Battle Summer" campaign, his severe wound at the Weldon R. R. August 18, '64, and subsequent absence from the Regiment, not to mention the red tape that ever did hedge military matters about, it was not till the 23d of November, 1864, that Colonel Peirson was mustered in to his rank: the Records of the War Department, Washington, D. C, state. Peirson is now held and considered by this Department, under the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved February 24, 1897, to have been mustered into the service of the United States in the grade of Colonel, Thirty-ninth Massachusetts Infantry, to take effect from July 13, 1864, and to have held that rank until the date of his discharge from service. Upon the recommendation of Major General G. K. Warren, Peirson was commissioned Colonel of Volunteers by brevet, to date from March 13, 1865, for meritorious conduct in the battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania in May, 1864, and as Brigadier General of Volunteers, by brevet, to date from March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of the Weldon Railroad in August, 1864. After months of prostration, incident to his wound, and on the clear evidence of his inability to return to the Regiment, Colonel Peirson resigned and was mustered out of the service January 11, 1865. Subsequent to the war, General Peirson was long in the iron business, Boston; on his retirement therefrom, he found occupation for his well earned leisure in historical studies, particularly with reference to the Civil War, being a member of the Loyal Legion, which he commanded, 1895, and the Massachusetts Military Historical Society. His city residence is at 191 Commonwealth Avenue; his summer abode is at Pride's Crossing, city of Beverly. Charles L. Peirson, 28, S. ; civil engineer, Salem; wd. May 8 and 10, '64, Spottsylvania; prom. Colonel; Charles Lawrence Peirson was born in Salem; was graduated from Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, 1853; was a Corporal in the Fourth Battalion, under Major T. G. Stevenson, which in the spring of 1861 did gratuitous service in Fort Warren, Boston Harbor; later commissioned First Lieut, and Adjutant in the Twentieth Massachusetts, he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Ball's Bluff and suffered three months' confinement in Libby Prison, Richmond; on his return to his regiment he was detailed for special service on the staff of General N. J. T. Dana and also later upon that of General John Sedgwick, thus passing through the Peninsula campaign; it was while on sick leave from such service that he was notified of his appointment to his new position in the Thirty-ninth Regiment.”