A. M. to commissary for stores. The fort is laid out today,
& details made to work on it. At noon was detailed for picket to report
immediately. The Off of Day did not know where the line of our Brigade was,
took us out on the wrong road making a walk extra of about 3 miles, was 4 P. M.
when we arrived on our own line, found there the detail of 33 had been sent
away to a bayou 1½ miles below the bluffs. Which post was to be relieved,
having no place on the line for me The Off of Day ordered me to march my detail
to camp. Short picketing that soon after return to camp supper ready. After
supper Lt Laughridge & myself go to the river for a bath, talk with a squad
of a Sergt of 4 men bearers of dispatch from Mobile & just arrived say a
flag of truce from Taylor had been at Whistler for 5 days & rumor said
Taylor wished to surrender. Told us of a Reb gunboat running out of Red River
past New Orleans & being too closely chased beeched & blew up, saw a
little nig. who gathered a mess of ripe haws to make us a pie, we to give him
his supper of which he had had none, when we return to camp Lt Sharman says “the
dispatch is just recd from Genl Canby announcing the surrender of Genl Taylor &
all his forces. & that our men should respect him & his officers
enroute to Mobile” as this order is published cheer after cheer rends the air,
Lt Stoeker 29th Iowa stays with us tonight, he come up from the Arsenal with an
escort of 10 men & says that his segt captured 2 men of the squad who
captured the teamsters near Fish river & that all the teamsters were sent
to Vicksburgh for exchange. The Lt says there is no doubt this is a correct
statement, Fleas Fleas. Fleas
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 596
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