Saturday, December 21, 2024

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, October 17, 1862

I spent the day with my children most of the time in the city 4 Oc we went out to camp & I took command of our Company on Dress perade my children took supper with us at Camp. Ben Swearengen & Deek Spooner started home in their wagon & Lemuel L Spooner & John W Williams started home to Centerville on the cars this morning

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

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