Daniel Pickens Diary
Vol I
A Private of Company "E" 30 Regiment Iowa Inf Volunteers was enrolled on the 9 day of Aug 1862 at for 3 years and is reported: on muster in roll dated Sept 23 1862. Present Muster roll from date of muster in to October 31/62 absent sick in Hospt at since Oct. 24/62 Nov. and Dec. 1862 absent sick since Nov.25/62 same to April 30/63.
May and June 1863 present. same to Oct 31/63. Nov and December 1863 absent wounded in action at (Missionary Ridge). Nov 27 1863. (Co. was in action there and then). Jan'y and Feb 1864 absent wounded since Nov. 27 1863. now at same to April 30 1864. May and June 1864. absent sick at . same to August 31 1864. Sept and Oct. 1864 absent sick at . Certificate of disability shows him discharged at Hospital- December 12 1864.
The records of this office furnish no additional evidence of disability.
County of Jefferson: V
On this 9" day of February A.D. One thousand eight hundred and sixty five personally appeared before me County Judge within and for said County and State aged thirty-nine years a resident of in the state of Kentucky. Being duly sworn according to law declares that he is the identical Daniel Pickens who enlisted in the service of the United States a Kentucky. On the 9th day of August in the year 1862 as a Private in company "E" commanded a captain in the 30th regiment of in the war of 1861 and was honorably discharged on the 12th day of December in the year 1864.
Thus while in the service aforesaid and in the line of his duty he received the following wound; that he received a gunshot wound through his left leg. about four inches below the knee fracturing the bone whilest engaged in battle at Ringold Georgia on the 27th day of November 1863. That since his discharge he has resided at and has been unable to engage in any occupation but has been totally disabled and can do nothing towards earning a living. Hereby constituted and appointed my true and lawful attorney to persecute this claim and to receive the certificate claimed.
ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES
OF DISABILITY FOR DISCHARGE.;
Private of Company "E" of the Thirtieth Regiment of the United States was enlistd by of the Regiment of _____ at on the Ninth day of August 1862 to serve Three years; Thirty six years of age Five feet eight 1/2 inches high Dark complexion Hazel eyes Dark hair and by occupation when enlisted a Sawyer. During the last two months said soldier has been unfit for duty___days.______
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Date: Nov 26 1864
Nov 26 1864
This soldier is discharge for wounds received in Battle and is not fit for duty.
Surgeon In charge
I certify that I have carefully examined the said______of Captain ______Company and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of+ Un-united fracture of left Tibeu at the upper third following gunshot wound received in the action at May 27 1864. Disability three forths.
Discharged this Twelfth day of December 1864 at (?)-- Hospital .
My Closest Call Memorial Book Mark
(This memorial was printed on a ribbon that was last in the hands of Charles Holbrook of Hollywood, CA, 1996, a son of Sadie Hiatt Holbrook. Larry Anderson)
My closest call was Ringgold, Georgia on Dec 25th 1864 in line of battle; was shot through the left leg and lay on the battlefield till nine o’clock at night. I belong to Co. E 30th Ia. Infantry.
Diary of Daniel Pickens[1]
VOL I
March 26th 1852 - March 25th 1859
Friday I arrived on friday noon and took cabin passage for in the afternoon paid too dolars for my trip. Bought eight cents worth of cakes and five cents worth of aples. I wote to you Saturday (25th) morning this Sunday morning is 1/2 past eight o'clock and i havent left yet. 11 O'clock in pitzburg the bout is in motion now to hundred cabin passenger and three hundred deck passingers.
I had some letis for dinner monday noon and i am about to hundred miles form pit it has bin fair yet sinse i took the boat it is as warm as sumer her
Tuesday the 29 i took thirty fore on the flore and slep prety well i have not yet seen a feather bead sinse i left home the weather is very warm this morning i bught one silk hankerchef 25 cents 20 cents worth of amunition and three cents worth of cigrets it has been fair day and very warm
March the 31 i staied in a bout 6 ours the peach trees was in full bloom and the grass way up full bite and it seemes like june on the write lift and on the write 770 from pit april the 1 eight o'clock in the morning ill 11 o'clock ---
friday morning april the 2 1852 it is pleasant this morning is very pleasant and it is warm anuff for corn to grow we got to the mouth of the a bout noon
Saterday it is pleasant and warm Sunday morning the 4 I have arieve in and it is pleasant yet and looks well here the boiler burst and bloed the boat al to peases and killed a great many it rains now here now and i paid fifty cents for my diner i had turkey and soop and rasin pudin for my and pie i am going to the boat for to stay to night for i think that it is bater than to stay to the tarven and pay fifty sents a meal and twenty five cents a meal (Die Vernon, name of steamboat he was on.)
it rained half the after noon and some of the forenoon i took super on the boat and got a good super anuff for me the it is a prety boat as i ever see i have got to pay three dolars for my passage to
i paid twenty cents for a pair of gogles and five cents for a pie and 50 cents for my dinner it is 1/2 past 7 c'clock and i am a going to bead
Monday april the 5 it rained all night and it sowed all the fore noon i have bin readin a novil all the fore noon and have just finished it 5 oclock and we are a levin and it is as cold yet
tuesday april the 6 i had my boots i had out of my room and bruched and had to pay ten cents for it it is pleasant tis morning and we are in in site of a vilage buy the name of it is warm anuff tis morning i saw a hundred and fifty crane tis morning and wild gease and ducks anuff for to make one dinner for one hundred the stuffin bloed out of the steamcheast and it scart me some but did not hurt any body i saw a man 7 feet and 9 inches high he had a cain as big as my leg and a gun that i could not reach the top in to about six inches
wensday the 7 it is cloudy and wet and muddy anuff in i arieved in a bout 4 o clock in the after noon and staid all night pigs are seling for six bits a piese i had a feather bead to sleep it is five o clock and it has stoped raining but it is cooler than it was this morning eight o clock and i am a goin to bed
thursday the 8 i arose in the morning and it was fare and pleasnt it has bin fare all day and looks like a fare day to moro
friday morning april the 9 it is fair yet and i have bin thrue the sity some and like it beter than i did i saw a pol 104 feet high for a telegraph with sixteen three quarter wire for braces i bought a pair of pinchers for twenty five cents it is a boat twelve o clock and i am a going to leave for i arive in to about dark 18 miles from it rained last night says the women are all a like when they are maids there mild as milk once make them wives and they lean their backs against their marrige certificates and defy you
saterday the 10 it rains this morning it is breaking a way and i am a going invite to Kainesville for ridin four teen miles and fifty cents supper and login and breakfast i have got to Charleston and it is mud anuff and it look like rain it has sprinkled some this afternoon we have got 15 miles from and have stoped to a privit house to stay all night
Sunday april the 11 it is pleasant this morning but the sun is in the west i am on the pretest prarie that i have seen yet i have seen more wild geass then i ever saw before on tis prarie and chickens without number there is not a tree to be seen but hoses in every direction i have got in site of timber but it is a bout as far as i can see it was pleasant all day
monday april the 12 it is plesant this morning we staied to a yanky house last night and i was took wit a diaree i got to fairfield a bout 9 o clock and left a bout 11 o clock is a prety plase as i have seen in
tuesday morning the 13 it is pleasant this morning i had to pay 20 cents fgr my super and login it is 11 o clock and i am on the pretys prairy i ever saw in my life it desends to the south and east a litle east and west you may look as far as you have a mind to there is timber within to miles of this plase to be had for five dolars per acre and there is a good spring on it that never fails past
wensday morning 14 it is plesant this morning and i am bond for for to lay my warant for i have found a plase that suits me i arieved in a bout noon and bgket it i left about half past one i staid to Brighton, Washington Co., Iowa tow nights for 40 cents and had my breakfast both mornings i left a half past one and have met thirty and wagons i going ten miles i stoped to a privet house for to stay i had venson for my super and while i was eating ther was three dears come within 20 rods of the house and i went out within 7 or 8 rods of them before they run and their they hoisted their flags and run a bout twenty rods and stoped
thursday the 15 i have got to about 18 miles from where i staid last night and it is noon and i am tired anuff to sit down in the road i took the stage about two o clock for Brighton and arived in burlington a bout six o clock in the evenin on Knoxville, Ill.
friday the 16 it has rained all the morning it raind till a bout noon and then it broke a way and cleard off and was prety cold i left at eight o clock in the mornin and rode till three the next morning and it was prety bad going we did not have to pry the sage out but onse
Saturday the 17 it is fair this morning we left Knoxville, Ill a bout eight o'clock in a mud wagon for i arieved in peora a bout midnight and took the boat forBucxB Bucell and got there a bout half past 7 oclock and took the red for Sunday morning and got to Bucell, a bout noon and started for uncle and got there about dark
Sunday mor the 18 it is fair this morning and it is pleasant riden to what the old mud wagon was
monday april 19th it was pleasant all day i took a steam boat for Bucell and got there about one oclock and started for uncle i got there a litle before dark and found them all well
tuesday morning 20th it is cloud and wet this morning and it look rather bad it was bad wet all day
wensday the 21 it is cloudy this morning i have bin out with uncle to see his farm and liket well i had a small chill in the after noon
thursday the 22 it is pleasant all day and looks like a pleasant day to morow i going to start for home and Mary Pickens (his cousin) s comin with me
riday morning th 23 it was plesant this morning and wet we started for about six o clock in the morning and got there a bout ten and took a boat to
Saturday the 24 i left New Buffalo, Mich.New in the even for and got there a bout for o clock and took a boat it was pleasant all day
Sunday morning the 25 it is not very pleasant this morning the lake is ruff a nuff this morning
monday the 26 it looks rather dismal this morning i had to go past home this morning i went within a mile of shore we was poundin a round in the ise all night some of the folks was prety bad scart
deter to take three hogs $11 50
13.80 due 17.45 the amount due paid twenty two and 85 cents paid
3 days work intrest due on a note against Aaron Eddy, is six dolars and thirty five cents
has got whiskey to sell for 50 cents per galon
work 3 days and 1/2 2 68 1/2
the potash to be pulverised to put in a vesal covered with a wet cloth until mouldered then as the borax and coal
for makin wine; of curents three galons of water to 6 galon of whickey to 5 galon of the guse to 2 pound of shugar to 1 galon of whiskey and then put it in a veel with the bung out and let stand 2 or three daus till it is done formenting then drane it off in bottles andd put a lump of loaf shugar in each botle
Sunday July the 17 1852
i am in the woods about a half mile from where i board if i could come hom as quickly as i could go to the plase where i bard i think i should see you prety soon but i must go to my bording plaise a gain but it is a lonesome plase for me but they are clever folks a nuff
September 23 1853
paid for stave and pipe 2 98
be 3 pounds of nails 15
April the 19 1853
20 for towels 50
in wage 25
April 20 for lodgin and breakfast 1 00 for fair and lugage 24 20
for fruit 1 20
from chigo to 3 00 for board and breakfast 4
for cabin passage on the 12 00
from to 8 00 from to 4 45 the balance 7 75
planted 8 1/2 acres of corn sowed 3 acres of buckwheat the June 25 finished my corn the 16 day of july
july 24th i commensed cutin my timber
56 of nails 6 1/4 3 54
2 coare Hundly 25 50
2 pr Buts 12 1/2 25
5 of nailes 30
Siding 800 feet 10 00
floring 300 3 75
sheeting 400 3 00
8 joise 100 1 00
bought of
1 pound of buter cit 12 1/2
1 pound 2 ou 12
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April the 28 1854
i planted 4 acres of corn may the 9 and 10 planted 11 acres of corn it comensed raining may the 13
Sould 1 watch 2.12 1/2
paid for buying a watch 62 1/2
for one watch cristal 25
for 1 key 5
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December the 29 1854
bought 1 sirsingle 25
1 martin 25
1 pensil 05
to Briton 50
bough cheese and crackers 55
bought 1 pair of mittings 50
Second trip our west 5 45
for making of curents three galons of water to 6 galons of curents bring them well to gether and then strain it through a hair sive then as one galon of an 2 pounds of shurgar to 5 galons of the guise and then put it in a cast with the bung out and let it stand till it is done formenting put the bung in and let it stand 6 weeks and then bottle it put a lump of loaf thursday 6
Daniel Pickens Diary
Vol I
Daniel Pickens Diary
Vol II
Sept the 23 1863 Tuesday 23 in the morning went to town to get some money changed but i could not get aney changed less than fifty cents on a dollar you must trade out 50 cents or you cant get aney change you cant by anything with a bit without bying 50 cents worth of somthing
Tuesday 23 in the after noon i went to town to help loade the solders clothing there was about 11 loads of clothing and blankets
Wensday 24 1862 cook to day i have got my breakfast out of the way the dress cots have come i will have to go and get mine in the after got my pancs had to put them to go on dress perade it is cood this evening
Thursday 25 1862 stood guarde to day it is a prety day it is cool in the night sent a leter home and one to Ruby
Friday 26 1862 come of guarde at ten oclock there was batalian drill in the fore noon in the after noon we formed into a batalian and marched down town to see the 23 regement on dress perade they looked first rate we peraded up there we made a rite prety time
Saturday 27. 1862 in the fore noon went downtown to get my bounty but did not get any we got our dog colars and drawers and shoes in the fore noon in the after noon went to town to get my bounty but cold not get it the boys got fuel at eight oclock in the evening i got a leter tis evening from home was glad to here from you
Sunday 28 1862 in the fore noon went to the river to wash my towel and stockins it looks like rain this fore noon in the after noon staid around the camp it sprinkled to day when we was on dress preade we had the armey regulation was read to us for the first time sense we have bin in camp we had the guarde house full for the first time
Monday the 29 1862 it is a fogy morning and looks like rain there is to be a new lection this morning i am for guarde duty to day they put in i was on guarde to day it was plesant all day it was darke night there is a good many here nowadays briges wife is here to day i got my 27 dolars to day
Tuesday 30 1862 on guarde this morning we had a harde shower as i ever see in a half ower the Lighting struck one of the shantys and nocked down some of the men doctor Suiley started for home at noon in the after noon the boys went to town to here speeke it is wet this after noon wet all night
October the 1 1862 Wensday it is wet this morning and and is going home lent twenty five dollars by him it has bin wet all day come down just at darke we went over to a vacant house and staid all night she thought that it was a harde plase to stay