Night verry high
wind with incessant heavy rain, our canvas tents shelter us well from the storm
but the storm of wind gave us some uneasiness, we feared our stakes might draw
& our tents capsize About 2 Oc a Rebble boat Bracele came up with a flag of
truce & anchored opposite town to exchange the crew of our boat Blue Wing
which they captured a fiew days since. Mr. Oldfield who knows the Capt of the
Blue Wing told me that he David Hugle was at heart a traitor & he believed
that the taking of his boat with government stores was as Hugle wished it to
be, & Oldfield shook hands & talked with Harry Nolen of Cincinatti who
was one that came on shore to see about an exchange & his wife is in
Cincinatti sewing to Support herself & family & the citty helps to keep
her. At 4 Oc we ware on dress perade
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 102
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