Steamboat Time, Mississippi River, near Clarksville, Mo. — The steamboat Time is “the most irregular and uneasy boat I have been on.” Provides an account of recent action in the Mexican-American War, and states that “we [the United States] are wholly in the wrong. We had no business to occupy the eastern bank of the Rio Grande with our troops. It is Mexican territory.”, 1846 May 29

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The collection contains a typescript copy of a diary of Rev. Charles Peabody, May 21– September 11, 1846; a diary of Rev. Peabody, October 12, 1846–July 25, 1849, while he traveled in the West (mostly in St. Louis, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio) as an agent of the American Tract Society; and four travel diaries of Rev. Peabody, 1858-1859, recording his travels mostly in Europe. The collection also contains correspondence to Rev. Peabody, 1888-1889; many of these letters are from his Dartmouth College classmates.