Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, November 10, 1862

In morning the Doctors Opened & examined one of the men that died last evening our Co was out to late to go on Battalion drill & our 1st Lieut drilled the Company in the manuel of arms 4 Oc we were on dress perade Gov Kirkwood was to see us on dress perade & the Col passed around with him & introduced him to the Commissioned officers as they ware on perade. Dr JD Elbert was to see us & I took him around the camp & to the hospital

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 95

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