Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Diary of 4th Sergeant John S. Morgan: Wednesday, September 2, 1863

The 2d Div. gets in at 9. A. M haveing started from the bluffs morning of the 1st were all night without water suffered. Some talk of fight in a day or two. Foragers run afoul of rebs in cornfield. Quite Sick, fever

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

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