A light frost in the
morning & our Co was in it all night guns in hand & no blankets with us
& no rebels came to let us try our guns or grit and it was luckey for them.
I am now sleepy, have slept none since thursday night it is at least 65 hours
since I slept & I believe I could go 24 more. I took dinner with G N Udell
of Centerville, Appanoose Co Iowa at his Boarding house in the citty of Memphis
with the family of the Seargent of the 17 Reg Iowa Vol afternoon we rambled
through the citty viewed A Jackson's monument in Center of Court Square &
seen the work of traytor hands the defacing of his words that ware cut in his
monument (The Federal union must be preserved)
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 101
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