Day passed quietly away. Spent most of the time writing.
After dress parade without any previous notice were called into line to go on
fatigue duty. With arms and overcoats were marched 2 miles down the river, (was
7. P. M. before we started.) here regiment stacked arms. Co.s. G. and B were
sent back to camp for spades, returned. Cos. R and H. were sent on beyond where
our batteries had been before to dig rifle pits preparatory to planting a
battery, returned to camp at 11.30. P. M. Orders down today with a new supply
of Amunition to take Fort Pemberton. Day Pleasant.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 7, January
1923, p. 487
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