Morning cold the mud froze so it bears a man up, The Cavilry
took a skout yesterday afternoon & about 200 of them went out to a Rebble
ball at Lagrange 15 miles west of Helena, they took 5 Rebbles Soldiers &
spies in our uniform & 8 Citizens & some of them ran when the
cavelry rode up, & John Westenberger from near Centerville Iowa who is in
the 3rd Iowa Cavelry dismounted & ran after them hallowing halt but they
did not heed & he shot down a Reb Capt Gib or Gibbs he died in a few
minutes. Westenberger tended me1 when I built Wadlingtons house at
Centerville. I finished pointing up our cabbin I feel very unwell my bones all
ache & my back is verry painfull.
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1 The writer was a brick and stone mason by trade.
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, pp. 106-7
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