Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, November 22, 1862

I have been verry busy fixing up matters to leave I have just returned from the Lodge of I.0.0.F. we had a pleasant time and conferred the 5th degree on Bro W Walker

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