I received a letter
from my daughter with information that my son Amandus is much better, the fever
broke & he is in a fair way to recover, letter dated the 20th Dec 1862. I
have a verry severe cold & my lungs are verry sore, but I am on duty as
Officer of the Guard. at 9¼ Oc morning our Reg 36th Iowa was ordered of the
boats & formed in line by companyes & ware marched to our Campning
grounds on the bank of the river at the lower end of the town of Hellena
Arkansas. Our camp is between the Levvy & the river there is some 10 or 12
Reg of Cavelry & infantry in & about the place, the bottom is perhaps ¼
of a mile wide with numerous ponds of standing watter & some of them
covered with a green scum, the bluff is verry broken, high point of timberland
at the foot of the bluff & opposite to us is the residence of the Rebble
Genl Hindman
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 102
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