Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, October 3, 1862

We had a verry heavy rain before day wett us in our tents I mustered the company & took them out on Dress perade evening I took I. Spooner went to Coz Kelleys then to the Demming house then to an Oyster shop & had a fine dish of Oysters returned to Camp & at 11 Oc nite the rain commenced to pour down & we took it in our tent.

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 91

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