Our Chaplain M H Hair took dinner with us in our cabbin 2 Oc
Brig Genl Clinton B Fisk had an appointment to preach to us in the fort,
there was a large congregation & Brother Ingalls Chaplain of the 3rd Iowa
Cavelry commen the discource after Our Chaplain had prayed. Ingalls nor the Genl
took no text but pitched in with great earnestness & deep feeling, & we
had a good time the Genl, scored the officers that would stoop so low as to
swear & they must have felt mean under his scathing remarks. 4 Oc we ware
on Dress perade I am better today & have some appetite Evening I went down
town to the Baptist Ministers house, whare Mrs. A Wittenmyer11 stops
at this time & spent an hour pleasantly, took tea & got some
information about the Iowa soldiers, as her mission is seeing after the sick.
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11 Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer of Keokuk was a noted Civil War nurse and a writer of note. See Vol. IV, p. 277, ANNALS OF IOWA. A large collection of her correspondence is on deposit in the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of lowa.
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, pp. 108-9
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