Saturday, December 21, 2024

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, October 25, 1862

We did not drill but had Dress perade at 4 Oc the 30th Reg left here this day on the Packet John Warner they ware in fine spirits I had the children all with me to see them leave then Emma & I attended the hospitals & evening Emma & Mary Kelly & I attended meeting in the hospital in the lighton house & I spoke from the 1st Psalm one of the 30th died

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 93

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