Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, December 19, 1862

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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