Thursday, September 8, 2016

Diary of 4th Sergeant John S. Morgan: Friday, August 21, 1863

2. P. M. General sounded 3.20 hard rain 1½ hours. 6.20 cross river cross the island 5 miles through swamps and awful roads, through at 11. P. M.

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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