Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, December 25, 1862

We have been fixing up for convenience as well as we can our quarters is a long open stable close on the bluff bank of the river almost perpendicular & from 40 to 80 ft high & close to the shore is to be seen the bottom of skifts sticking out of watter they are fastened to 2 Rebel gun boats that our guns sunk in the navel fight & their crews are in them

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, pp. 100-1

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