After A night of
watchfulness in which I did not alow myself to steep the morning dawn is
welcomed with glad harts by us all & the merry chatter of the squerrel
& the multitude of the various kinds of the fethered songsters mingling in
sweet strains of musick & verberating on hiltop & in the valleys so
delight the ears that with the pleasing sight of their buisey wings in flight
from limb to limb & their frolicksome persuit of each other on swift wings
almost removes from us the thought of our wearied night of watchfulness. At 11
Oc our relief came & we return to town & find the Reg moved & more
pleasantly situated than we have been since we left Benton Barracks. Capt &
I have a cabbin about 12 by 16 feet floored & a good brick fireplace &
we feel at home & know that for soldiers we are well fixed
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 104
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