Saturday, August 3, 2024

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, September 24, 1862

7¼ Oc got to Davenport attended to some buisiness with the Adgt Gen'l got my Commission as 2nd Lieut & was mustered in by HB Hendershot 1 Oc started in the steam packet Kate Cassel for Keokuk my boil broke

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 90

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