Diary of 4th Sergeant John S. Morgan: Friday, July 24, 1863

Not well A. M. Day hot as a furnace. Detail of men go up on Hamilton Belle. Kirby Smith reported news with 25000 men advancing on this post

SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 7, January 1923, p. 493