Saturday, October 4, 2025

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, November 24, 1862

I attended to some business with Judge Knapp, packed up my things & at 4 Oc bid good by to my Dear children Amandus took me in my buggy & at 5 Oc I took the cars at Summit & at 8½ arrived at Keokuk 9 Oc I arrived at Camp Lincoln glad to see the boys

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 96

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