10 Oc I spoke to the contrabands from 1st Epistle General of
Peter 1st ch 24 & 25 v. Our Chaplain closed after me we had a good time
services out dores 1 Oc I spoke to them from Rev 20th ch 12th v it was the
funeral of a black man I presented the alter & over 30 came forward &
many ware converted it was a time of great power Evening I spoke to them again
out dores, from Matthew 11th 28 & 29 & 30 I invited mourners & near
40 came to the alter & many ware made happy in a Saviours Love, it was a
time of great power the behaviour of the soldiers present was excellent, thank
God. 4 Oc I was on Dress perade In the afternoon I took a little Boy & Girl
Jessey Ann & John Turner Brother & sister, with straight hare &
hazel eyes & skin nearly white, live specimens of the boasted institution
of the south. I took them about amongst our officers & men, some of whom
justify the cruel thing. These ware the chattles of John Woodburn of Madison
Ia.12 & his father old John Woodburn deceased the wench sais is
father to the little boy & she sais he promised to free the child, but he
was late slave to his half brother
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12 "Ia." is the old abbreviation for Indiana,
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, pp. 109-10
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