10 Oc we marched out
& met the Bellair Co & marched into town we trained some in town &
around it & at noon we marched out north of town & there was a fine
dinner prepared & the soldiers eat first then the ladies & then the
other men after which M H Hare & Mr Grenell made good speeches then we
formed & marched to town & dismissed & I got teams engaged to take
us to Ottumwa free
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 88
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