Last night pickets of 43d Ills Kill one capture one and see
another bushwhacker. Colm moves at 6.30 for the Rocks, Roads ½, good ½ very
bad. at the burned mill at 12, in our quarters at 3 P. M. Marching orders
awaiting us Find our details all back from up rivers except corp schippers
wonded in head and left at Clarksville. Rebs captured the Chipawa with detail
of 50th Ind. Rebs were 1500 with 3 pieces Artilery. boat crew parolled Raining
this Evening. recd our mail but little of it.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 572-3
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