I spent the day with
my children most of the time in the city 4 Oc we went out to camp & I took
command of our Company on Dress perade my children took supper with us at Camp.
Ben Swearengen & Deek Spooner started home in their wagon & Lemuel L
Spooner & John W Williams started home to Centerville on the cars this
morning
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 92
10 Oc I & Emma
Amandus & our Cozens Maria & Mary Kelley attended Catholic Church after
which we went to the Hospital Boat & from that we went to the hospitals
& amongst the sick & wounded 5 Oc I was on dress perade evening I
preached in the tent 30th Reg text Gal 6th 1st & 2nd v
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 92
1 William P. Shipley, age 25, residence
Eddyville, nativity Tennessee. Enlisted August 13, 1862, Company D.
Thirty-sixth Iowa Infantry. Died of disease October 20, 1862, at Keokuk,—"Roster
Iowa Soldiers," Vol. V, p. 716.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 92-3
Forenoon I was on
Company drill afternoon Division & Battalion drill & Dress perade,
evening Emma Cozen Maria Kelly & I attended a Medical Lecture at the
Medical Colledge we visited some of the sick soldiers in part of the Colledge
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
Forenoon we ware on
Co drill afternoon on Brigade & battallion drill & Dress perade. Our
Capt is poorly in his bed most of the day the 26th Reg passed down on a Packet
landed a short time they are a fine looking set of men. evening Emma & I
attended the African Church & seen some contrabands just from South
Carolina
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
I went with our Capt
to the Hospital & gave him his medison & staid with him most of the day
afternoon a short time on drill & Dress perade evening Emma & I attended
prayer meeting at exchange St Church after that we went into see some of our
sick Soldiers in the Hospital
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
We did not drill but
had Dress perade at 4 Oc the 30th Reg left here this day on the Packet John
Warner they ware in fine spirits I had the children all with me to see them
leave then Emma & I attended the hospitals & evening Emma & Mary
Kelly & I attended meeting in the hospital in the lighton house & I
spoke from the 1st Psalm one of the 30th died
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
Our Reg got our
coats pants shirts & socks & caps & they needed them verry much 9
Oc I was at love feast in the African church then visited our boys in the
hospital. then helped to receive & distribute the uniform 4 Oc we were on
dress perade evening Emma & Mrs & Miss Kelly visited the hospitals
& attended preaching at exchange church
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
Forenoon I drilled
the Co & was on dress perade. 1st Lieut drilled the Co afternoon. I took my
children & visited the hospitals. the centance of the Courtmartial on 2
deserters from Co C. 36 Reg Iowa & was read on Dress perade they are
brothers each forfeit one months pay & one is put on hard labor for 2 weeks
& have 1⁄2 his head clipped & be kept in the guard house at nights.
Evening Miss Mary & Miss Richey of Ill spent the evening at Kellys with us
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
Forenoon I drilled
the Co in the manual of arms afternoon we ware on battallion drill & dress
perade & ware down on main street & had our arms inspected I visited
our boys in the hospital morning & night some of them are verry sick one of
Co [F] Capt Vermilion died he is a brother to one that was sent up yesterday
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 94
Dress parade. I wrote to Spring Mills pupils. I traded gold pen to Capt. Vander Hórck for a pair of gloves.
SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson, Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865, p. 7
We have a splendid camping ground, plenty of wood and water, Made ourselves very comfortable. I feel so much better here where we can have batallion drills and dress parade.
SOURCE: Joseph Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Stockton, p. 8
It is said the
pickets of the Fourteenth Indiana and the enemy's cavalry came in collision
to-day, and that three of the latter were killed.
It is now 9 P. M.
Sergeants are calling the roll for the last time to-night. In half an hour taps
will be sounded and the lights extinguished in every private's tent. The first
call in the morning, reveille, is at five; breakfast call, six; surgeon's call,
seven; drill, eight; recall, eleven; dinner, twelve; drill again at four;
recall, five; guard-mounting, half-past five; first call for dress-parade, six;
second call, half-past six; tattoo at nine, and taps at half-past. So the day
goes round.
Hardee for a month
or more was a book of impenetrable mysteries. The words conveyed no idea to my
mind, and the movements described were utterly beyond my comprehension; but now
the whole thing comes almost without study.
SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 41
morning dark & gloomy Drissling rain Roll call as usual but Drill omitted. no drilling to day whatever An order was issued by the Gen. about 11 O'clock to day for 10 men and one Lieut. with arms and 10 rounds of ammunition each Dress Parade as usual this evening.
SOURCE: Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 227
Camp McClernand, Cairo Ills. Sun rose clear and bright Duties as usual performed. unusually quiet and dull about camp Nothing of importance transpiring. Duties of the day closed as usual with Dress Parade
SOURCE: Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 227
clear & pleasant looks like Indian Summer. Health of camp decidedly improving. Our comp numbers increasing on Dress Parade
SOURCE: Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 228
Morning clear and pleasant—Drill in the forenoon Battalion Drill in the afternoon all the Regt. out also the Bloody 18th Col Lawler was up on parade with us tis said his Regt. has joined our Brigade
SOURCE: Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 228
morning clear air and bracing. Drilling from 6 to 7 O'clock. to day is Pay Day Comps. A. & E. are paid first—as they are going off on a scouting expidition—To-morrow we get paid, the boys are over joyed at getting their pay, have been disappointed so often that they had no confidence any more as to the promised pay day. Have no Battalion Drill to day. A stern wheel Boat came up the River this afternoon with a flag of Truce flying The purport of her visit is no known This Brigade was ordered down town on Double Quick this evening and paraded about an hour on the levy
SOURCE: Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 228
Weather pleasant,
but rather cold. The Fifth Army Corps was reviewed by Major-Gen. Burnside.
Started out of camp at nine A.M., marched about four miles, and came to the
place where the review was held. The corps was drawn up in line, and passed in
review; was dismissed, and returned to camp. Capt. Martin started for home in
the first train for Aquia Creek the next morning.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second
Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters and the Third Light
Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 271
DUNLAP SPRINGS. We
have built a snug log house and last night for the first and probably last time
have slept in it; for our company has orders to move down town and act as city
guards. There are eight or ten regiments here, some of them new ones from
Jackson, Miss. The new regiments, like all new ones, have great confidence in
themselves and think the war is to be settled by them and them only. There is
an undercurrent of jealousy existing between the old and new troops. The old
troops call the new ones "forty dollar men," "bounty men,"
and "home guards." Last Friday, Oct. 31, we had general review from
Gen. McPherson who is here commanding the post. There were twenty regiments,
ten thousand men, I should judge, on the field. There is a great forward
movement taking place. All the troops started out on the Grand Junction road
this morning with the exception of the 43rd, and 17th Ill.. The weather is
fine, the days are warm and pleasant, but the nights are very cold and frosty.
About once in ten days we have a northeast rainstorm, followed by cold weather
and sleet. We are on guard every other day, sometimes every third day.
SOURCE: Seth James
Wells, The Siege of Vicksburg: From the
Diary of Seth J. Wells, Including Weeks of Preparation and of Occupation After
the Surrender, p. 11
