We ware on Dress perade in the mud I believe I feel a little stouter today & have some apetite There was an alarm of an attack this morning but I think none of our Reg knew it until it was announced on dress perade in the evening A Soldier shot a black man it is thought the wound will prove mortal, cause they ware taking all negro men found near to unload boats & the soldier halted the Negro he passed on he fired at him 3 times with a pistol missing then he loaded a gun & fired shooting him through the boddy
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 108
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