Soon as breakfast over finish loading com. stores. No of
blls bread lost by breaking open at 2, P. M. turned in, land on the island of
Brazos at the city of Brazos Santiago about 4 small houses, all the water used
is condensed. ration 1 gal per day, plenty of fish, hear the sad news that the
Col Lt Col & adjt of Regt were bathing, the tide carried them out, the Lt
Col was saved by his servt but the Col & Adjt were lost
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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