Rained moderately
untill 12 Oc night, when it commenced to pour it down in torrants &
continued incessantly all the night long At 9½ Oc morning I was required to
report with 10 men & a Corporal at head quarters for Picket duty & at
the hour we started out I stationed my pickets & placed my videtts I then
took a little exploring ramble beyont to see if I could make any discovery but discovered
no enemy & returned by the way of my post on Sunday night & found my
watch kee that I then had lost the last time I was on picket At 10 Ос night
Lieut Stanton & one of his men of the 3rd Iowa Cavelry came to apprize me
that there was a squad of rebble cavelry had aproched his videtts but their
horses had neighed & the rebbles put back my man & I was in anxious
expectation from that till day but they came not at 3 Oc afternoon I was at the
burrying of Thos W Coddington private from near Hillsborough Iowa Chaplain
Ingalls informed me that he died verry happy
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 104
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