Start at 2 A. M. Rowena passed us in the night. touched at
St Charles at 8. A. M. negro Regt. there & fortifications landed at mouth
of White river at 1. P. M. & camped ½ mile from river at 2 P. M. carried
all our water from the river 126th Ill & detachment of 1st Ind Cav garrison
this Post under comd of Genl ——. Liu Wm Wallace arrives from Pine Bluffs with
F. L & K cos of 1st Iowa Cav enroute for Memphis. Some 6 or 8 boats here
Weather Pleasant.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 574
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