At 8½ Oc we started
from our moorings at the boat landing in ft Pickering Memphis Tenn we left
Seargent R Murdock & 6 privates from our Co Gin hospital & our 1st Lieut
Wm M McCreary was taken from the hospital last evening & put in a packet
for St Louis where he intends going into hospital he has been quite poorly
since the 1st of Dec not one day able for duty & from our election of Co
officers on the 14th of Aug he was not one hour with us untill the 1st of Oct
& was quite unwell by times between the 1st of Oct & the 1st of Dec. He
has now resigned & there will be another Lieut to appoint at ¼ to 3 Oc afternoon we landed at Hellena
Arkansas it is a low muddy place with numerous ponds of filthy green looking
watter, it is small villedge built of frame
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, pp. 101-2
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