For the next few months I am going to post quotes/paragraph(s) from Leslie Anders book The Twenty-First Missouri: From Home Guard to Union Regiment.
Here are today's selection:
" As the Twenty-first Missouri prepared to march west, its strength stood at 18 officers and 604 men present for duty. There were 20 others AWOL, 48 present but ill, and 86 absent ill." pg. 193
" During the three-day encampment at Gray Summit, Roberts(regimental surgeon) wrote his wife back in Fort Madison that " I, with several other officers, board with Widow Brown who keeps a boarding house on the apex of the Summit. I also staid there over night to protect the fat old widow from the soldiers she seems to be mortally afraid of." pg. 194
Here are today's selection:
" As the Twenty-first Missouri prepared to march west, its strength stood at 18 officers and 604 men present for duty. There were 20 others AWOL, 48 present but ill, and 86 absent ill." pg. 193
" During the three-day encampment at Gray Summit, Roberts(regimental surgeon) wrote his wife back in Fort Madison that " I, with several other officers, board with Widow Brown who keeps a boarding house on the apex of the Summit. I also staid there over night to protect the fat old widow from the soldiers she seems to be mortally afraid of." pg. 194
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