Sunday, October 18, 2026

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, February 23, 1863

We ware expecting orders all day, & about 9 Oc at night we received Orders to be ready to march or board the Moderator by 7 Oc in the morning. On dress perade there was orders read as to how we ware to do on the expedition I wrote a line to Adt Genl Baker, Davenport Iowa

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 111

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