Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, December 20, 1862

6 Oc we let loose & started on our way rejoiceing 2½ Oc Wm Perkins preached to us text get wisdom &c he is a prisbeterian & Chaplain of the 7 Illinos Inft on the way to his Reg Walker Chaplain of the 118 Ill Inft opened servises by prayer. on his way to the Reg. we laid by for the night at Saml Vancils. Cape Girardeau County & 15 miles above the town of that name I went on shore & to the house & spent part of the evening with them

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 99

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