Thursday, September 8, 2016

Diary of 4th Sergeant John S. Morgan: Saturday, August 22, 1863

Moved camp in timber five miles from pontroon bridge ––– scarce and thick with ––– Division forage train ––– trains go out, fired into ––– teams get in at night know nothing of the balance, fear they are gobbled

SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 7, January 1923, p. 496

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