Forenoon we drilled
in manuel of arms afternoon we did not drill we was on dress perade night Capt
Noble. Lieut McCreary 1st Seargt Fee & 2nd Searg Spooner our Chaplain &
I had a good time at Coz MJ Kelleys. we had an oister supper & a good time
of it
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 94
Forenoon I drilled
the Co in the manuel of arms afternoon Lieut McCreary drilled us 4 Oc we were
on dress perade night I was at Lieut Balls office I visited all our sick &
found all improving except Josiah Biddison & I fear we will loose him
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 94
Forenoon I drilled
the men in the manual of arms in the Baracks afternoon Orderly Fee & I
drilled them Lieut McCreary was officer of the guard 4 Oc we was on dress
perade
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 94
We drilled none but
was on dress perade I visited the sick in hospitals & spent the day mostly
with them we have one Josiah Biddison that the doctors say cannot live he is
earnest in prayer but has not yet professed
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 94
Forenoon the Orderly
& I drilled the Co on scirmish drill afternoon I drilled then in the manuel
of arms. 1st Lieut absent untill we went on dress perade & night till after
10 Oc he was in town afternoon I went to see our sick in the hospitals
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 94
Forenoon I drilled
the Co in the manuel of arms we did not drill afternoon. we was on dress perade
1st Lieut & Orderly was absent all day untill dress perade evening I
visited our sick in hospitals all seem to be doing well & I have hopes that
Biddison will live
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 94
In morning the
Doctors Opened & examined one of the men that died last evening our Co was
out to late to go on Battalion drill & our 1st Lieut drilled the Company in
the manuel of arms 4 Oc we were on dress perade Gov Kirkwood was to see us on
dress perade & the Col passed around with him & introduced him to the
Commissioned officers as they ware on perade. Dr JD Elbert was to see us &
I took him around the camp & to the hospital
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 95
Our Orderly Seargent
left for home this morning. we were on Co drill & Dress perade evening the
house we ware in took fire there was some excitement but little dammage done we
carried our things out in double quick time
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 95
We ware on batallion
drill afternoon Company drill & Dress perade Our sick are all mending
evening Our Chaplain preached in the Barracks of Co I Capt Gedney, text Come
unto me all ye that labour &c
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 95
On shore again. The well ones are drilling and the sick are enjoying themselves any way they can. Mail came to-day and I have a long letter from home. Every mail out takes one from me and often more. I have so many correspondents, I seldom fail to get one or more letters by each mail. On the bank or shore, up and down as far as I have seen, are negro shanties which look as if put up for a few days only. They dig oysters and find a ready sale to the thousands upon thousands of soldiers that are encamped on the plains as far as the eye can reach. This gathering means something, but just what, we none of us know, A case of black measles is reported on board ship and if true we may be in for a siege of it. I hope I may get entirely well before it hits me. Jaundice is quite common too, and many men I see are as yellow as can be and look much worse than they appear to feel.
SOURCE: Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 62-3
If I have kept track right, this is Thanksgiving day up north. My mouth waters as I think of the good things they will eat to-day. I suppose we should feel thankful for the fare we have, but it is hard to do it, and is harder yet to eat it. Still I know how impossible it is to do much better by us than they do. The family is so big, the individual member of it must not expect pie and cake with every meal. Some drilling in the manual of arms is done on the quarter deck. It makes something to do, and anything is better than nothing. A gun feels pretty heavy to me these days. It is curious to see how we divide up into families. Men who were friends and neighbors at home are even more than that here. Our duties may separate us, but when they are over we hunt each other up again. We know and talk with others, but confidences are all saved for the few. Our beds are next to each other, but with the fellows next to us on the other side we have little to do.
The waves run high to-day, higher than any I ever saw, and yet the sailors say this is almost a dead calm. Still the vessel pitches and dives, so we run against some one or something every move we make.
SOURCE: Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 65
Splendid weather. Lt Sharman quite ill and in our qtrs. Reported (?) Shelby on the Ark river above here. I. N. Ritner dies in Hosp. Battalain drill P. M.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, Thirty-Third Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, Vol. XIII, No. 8, Third Series, Des Moines, April 1923, p. 571
Battalain drill P. M. Lt. Sharman some better.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, Thirty-Third Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, Vol. XIII, No. 8, Third Series, Des Moines, April 1923, p. 571
Still cloudy no news
of importance Nothing to do in camp since our Regt. left. All quiet about the
Brigade camp. The other Regts. are constantly drilling. No Capt. Parke yet. He
ought to be made work on the fortifications ten days with a Ball & Chain to
his leg No tidings of Sullivan Hickman & Brown to day have kept up a
constant search for them. The day has closed without anything worthy of note.
SOURCE: Transactions
of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 229
Still dark and
gloomy with a drissling rain. Our Regt.
returned about 8½ O'clock had no brush with the Enemy took 600 or 700 bushels
wheat & 4 secesh prisoners. Battalion Drill this afternoon
Camp McClernand Cairo Ills.
Nothing of an
exciting character has transpired to day O & Co. of Light Artillery left
camp cairo this afternoon where bound tis not known with us. Hickman &
Brown were with the Regt. found Wm Sullivan today.
SOURCE: Transactions
of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 229
The appearance for
rain still very good co. Drill as usual, no Guards called for from our Regt. to
day. Nothing to note down to day. Battalion Drill till a very late hour—exempting
us from Dress Parade
SOURCE: Transactions
of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 229
Camp Cairo, Illinois.
Fogy and damp Drill as usual before breakfast no Drill this forenoon. Regt. was
called out this forenoon for inspection that is the inspecting of men. The no.
of men out on drill—the sick list & those absent from Camp not agreeing
with the morning report, consequently there is a number that undoubtedly shirk
from duty. This afternoon the review before Gen. McClernand came off.—Tomorrow
we have a Grand Review.
SOURCE: Transactions
of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 230
Drill as usual
Forenoon Drill—Battalion this evening—Day has closed as usual (by the sun's
going down)
SOURCE: Transactions
of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 230
Cool. Routine of
Drilling as usual—Battalion Drill superintended by the Lieut. Col. Nothing new
as usual—The same dull monotony seems to pervade the camp as usual.
SOURCE: Transactions
of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 230
Still clear &
cold Routine of Drill gone through with. Battalion Drill this forenoon and
afternoon. One of the Orders published on Dress Parade this evening—was the
acceptance of the resignation of Lieut. Buchanan of Comp B. this Regt.
SOURCE: Transactions
of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 230
