Saturday, December 21, 2024

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, October 16, 1862

Deek Spooner Benj Swearengen took their waggon & I & Amandus & our Orderly & Phil Whitzell went over into Ill some 6 or 8 miles took dinner at Dr Griswells they have a baring orchard of fifty acres I got some apples for the Boys & 10 gallons of Sider evening we returned & I am now with my children at Kelleys

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 92

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