Quite cold during the night, find myself almost too lame to
walk when I get up foot swelled badly The co is paid at 10.30 A. M. after which
have a time settling up old scores I pay out over $50.00 debts, Capt Lacy in
camp, says their expedition to Montgomery was a pleasure trip. The Rebel
commandant at Montgomery reed a telegram from Genl Dick Taylor announcing an
armistice & ordering him to make no hostile demonstrations, when Steeles
men took possession of the town the Rebel command marched out with all their
arms &c & colors flying, & while Steele remained there citizens
& soldiers of both armies went where ever they pleased without passes
mixing around most amacably. The citizens invited the Fed officers out to
dinners and were as friendly as could be, also that Jeff Davis & his crew
passed within 50 miles of Steeles camp & he had plenty of cavalry to have
over taken & captured him but could not on account of the armistice he
heard from his where abouts daily. Genl Canby has gone to New Orleans & has
left orders not to move here until his return, — So says madam R— One Div of
Jonstons army 5000 men arrive at Mobile on the morning train from Meridian.
Smiths corps is reported arriving & there seems to be a change in affairs,
men now go to & return from the city on a pass approved by the Brig.
Comd't, & citizens pass the picket line without passes from 9. A. M. to 6
P. M. The 29th Iowa is relieved at the arsenal at Mt. Vernon by one company
& have come down to the comd. Stock in Sherman is taking a rise
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 600-1
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