10 Oc I took part of
the Company & went out on Picket 1½ miles from Camp posted my Pickets &
plased my videtts, we occupied a picturesque place the ground was verry broken
deep gulshes & high knobbs, heavily timbered with Beach Oak & Poplar
tall trees in the gulches, the tops but little above the points & the
length of the tree would almost or quite reach across from point to point.
there was a perfect chattering with squerrels the videtts saw in the afternoon
1 koon several foxes & a great number of squerrels, we passed the Sabbath
watchfull & pleasantly, the pickets to our right was of the 3rd Iowa
Cavelry & the Lieut & several of the men ware from Davis Co Iowa.
Afternoon our Reg had orders & moved to the fort for its defence the Reg that
was there having gone with the fleet that leaves this day & night.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 104
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