Saturday, March 25, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Thursday, June 15, 1865

Communication with Bagdad stopped today. Several vessels arrive at Brazos with troops of 25 comps—— a shot was fired at one of our guards by some one secreted in a schooner across the river. A fleet of 40 sail lays in the harbor loaded with cotton for french

SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923, p. 605

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