Friday, June 24, 2016

Diary of 4th Sergeant John S. Morgan: Sabbath, March 8, 1863

Day warm. Passed 2 musketo boats and mortor boats, tore our co. quarters by running into limb, lost 6 guns &c river very crooked. No rebel battery found. Tall cane brakes, and much water, no plantations today.

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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