Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Monday, January 26, 1863

Buntyn Station.  Rain, rain, rain. Turned cold towards night. Health not very good on account of the damp. Ague and rheumatism.

SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 30

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, January 19, 1863

My back is yet suffering I fear it is rheumatism Our Capt TM Fee has gone out with a squad of men on picket his first adventure here

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 105