At daylight I
visited our sick in the hospitals talked & consoled them all I could bid
them good bye at 7½ Oc we took leave of Benton Barracks marched to the packet
landing & took passage on the packets Warsaw & Jenny Dean for Helena
Arkansaw & at 3¼ Oc we started from the levve at St. Louis, our Co is on
the Warsaw we laid up for the night 20 miles below St Louis near the Sulphor
Springs
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 99
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