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1863
DIARY OF 2nd Lieutenant
JAMES H. ST. JOHN 83rd Regiment
Indiana Volunteers
Company K
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Diary 1863
Monday,
September 21, 1863
Wrote to My Wife No of letr 4
Tuesday 22
arrived at vicksburg
Capt
Bodright
11 Mo Regt
Lunt Pearce
47 Ill. Regt
Wednesday 23
Moved our camp down to the Rail Road
Thursday 24
Friday 25
Wrote to my Wife No 5 and Wrote to my Mother
Jacob Johnson
Cash 50
Pat Dugan 50
James Stillman 100
Saturday 26
Wrote to My Wife No 6 In camp on Black River Near the Bridge
Sunday 27
Campt Near Black Rivr Bridge, Received Marching orders for vicksburg
arriving their at 3 oclock and on Board Stemr City of Peacon
Monday
28
We Hitt____ __[?]
left Vicksburg in the Knight
Tuesday 29
On Bord the Stemer City of Peacon bound for Memphis
Wednesday 30
on Bord City of Peacon Bound for Memphis Near Grenville
Thursday,
October 1
on Bord the Stemer City of Peacon Bound fo Memphis
Friday 2
on Bord Stemer City of Peacon Bound fo Memphis
Saturday 3
on Bord Stemr City of Peacon arrived at Helena arkansas at 2 in morning.
arived at Memphis at 11 o clock in the evening
Sunday 4
Went in to camp in the Rear of Memphis Wrote to My Wife No of letr 7
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