Much more pleasant today. All the Gunboats & Monitors
move out early this morning, going up the Bay toward Mobile, A little before 9.
A. M. heavy firing. Many rumors as to where the fleet was at work, the firing
was a good distance off & kept up incessantly all day except from 1.30 to 3
P. M. No news in from the fleet this evening
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 577
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