Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, October 15, 1862

I am greatly rejoised my children arived at Camp & we are all now comfortable at Coz Kelleys they were out to see us on batallion drill & dress perade this afternoon.

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