Boat landed at 12. O clock last night at Scippers landing to
unload freight was up saw several hundred bales of cotton guarded by a gunboat.
at 9. a. m. landed to ward 1 mile below Millikens bend got off and took a walk.
At 12. M. landed at Vicksburg. walked over town was in some 20 of the
celebrated holes, & on top of the Court house boat leaves at 7. P. M. Genl
M. L. Smith commands here. Genl A. J. Smith will comd an expedition from here
soon, his comd is here. Met & recognized Dr Huntsman [?] Beautiful weather.
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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