Sept. 10th
We are camped on Sac River, some four miles from
Springfield It is a beautiful camping
place—rive on three sides, that affords us plenty of water, which is a great
item in this low land of sorrow Though
we have not seen many rebels, we have been alarmed several times, and as often
have formed a line of battle. Yesterday,
I was officer of the day, and after I set the picket last night, I thought
there were too many bells ringing in different directions in the woods. Soon after the pickets on the Springfield
road came in, and reported forty or fifty men in that direction.
I took a few of the boys, went out, and they
skedaddled; consequently we had no fight.
– Published in The Union Sentinel,
Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, October 18, 1862, p. 2
