Monday, August 8, 2016

Diary of 4th Sergeant John S. Morgan: Tuesday, June 23, 1863

Report that the mail steamer has been captured by guerillas, two gunboats go up to tend the case return P. M. report all right, mail steamer to lie down during the night. 29 went out 12, last night, returned P. M. with no beeves 4. Prisr

SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 7, January 1923, p. 491-2

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