Sunday, October 18, 2026

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

We drilled in Bayonet exersize & at 4 Oc we ware on dress perade I have been quite feeble but am on duty, this night I took 2 pills the first medicine I have taken since I have been in the Service. One was a blue mas & the other an Opium pill

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

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