Arose late this morning, lameness much better. Capt. on duty
as Brig. off. of the day & I take the co out on inspection Spend the forenoon
reading & writing, sleep all the afternoon Nothing new in the papers today
published in Mobile. The steamer which burned yesterday was the Lt. John,
everything on board was a total loss, two lives lost one a passenger the other
the cabin boy, fire broke out in some cotton alongside the boiler Boys who have
been to the city today state that the 1st Div Quartermaster had drawn the
clothing & entrenching tools for that command but was ordered not to issue,
& I learn positively that the 26th N. Y. Battery had drawn the complement
of ammunition for field service & had again turned it over, Preaching in
camp this eve After supper go to the river, While there the steamers Thomas and
Lockwood come down the latter carrying about 300 Jonnies.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 601
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