Started early. Plantations more numerous and on larger
scale, houses very fine but small, white folks more plenty. Negro women, no end
to them, cotton burning nearly every place. One warehouse about 500 bales
burning. After dark passed boat load cotton burning, fire far as could see.
Raining all day.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 7, January
1923, p. 485
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