Sunday, October 18, 2026

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, February 9, 1863

We drilled some in bayonet exersize. Our Capt went out on picket about 11 Oc[.] 1 Oc I took the Co on Dress perade I wrote some in a letter I had commenced to write to my Daughter on the 7th I also wrote her one today desiring her if she could to send me some honey & butter

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 109

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