Sunday, October 18, 2026

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, February 5, 1863

Snow 3 to 4 inches deep 4 Oc we ware on Dress perade I feel more compfortable than for several days I have two powders to take tonight. A Mulatto servent of one of the Captains axidentally shot & killed an Orderly of Brig Genl Washburn

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

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