Clear & Pleasant
with frogs jumping about the ponds. This place, Hellena is almost impassible
for persons on foot, this day at 10 Oc I started alone & took a ramble up
to Col Busseys1 head quarters found Horis Cutler on his Staff he is
an old acquaintance in Keosauqua, I then rambled out back of the town over the
poor broken points that skirt the place, was in & viewed the fortifications
they seem well arranged to defend the place against any attack by the enemy. at
a frame building on one of the points I heard a black man preach text if the
earthly house of this tabernacle &c. at 1 Oc same place I heard another
black man preach text John 1st ch & 1st v. 2½ Oc our Chaplain preached out
in the midst of our camp text 36 Psalm 11th & 12th v. evening I wrote some
to my daughter. 4 Oc we ware on Dress perade
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1 Cyrus Bussey, a merchant of Bloomfield;
state senator, 1860; colonel Third Iowa Cavalry, 1861; brigadier-general,
1864-65.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, pp. 102-3
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