8 Oc a detail of 10
men from each Co was made for fatigue duty & I was put in command &
went & commenced to clear up & set our tents; 10 Oc an order came for
us to prepare rations & get ready to march at 8½ night we ware called in
line and marched to the landing in Ft Pickering 9½ Oc we went on board the
packets Anglo Saxon, Ida May & Lebanon for Helena Arkansas.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 101
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