Sunday, October 18, 2026

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, February 3, 1863

The mud was stiff enough to walk on this morning & a thin ice around the edges of the ponds We drilled in bayonet exersize & at 4 Oc ware on Dress perade I have felt verry feeble & after Dress perade I was quite sick & vomited severely evening I took a dose of oil & have powders to take every 4 hours through the night A soldier shot & killed a black man this evening cause not yet known

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 108

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