Start with fatigue party at 7.30 work until 5 P. M. grading
Rail Road tracks. 700 men at work grade about 2 miles. At 12. M. great smoke in
the direction of Mobile, at 3 P. M. it is reported that Mobile is burning (?)
in camp all evening.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 576
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