Saturday, April 20, 2024

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, August 19, 1862

Forenoon I was packing up as we expected to start at 2 Oc but we recd orders to go into quarters here til further orders Some were glad others provoked & all disapointed there was a big crowd in town to see us start

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 87

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