Fatigue party goes
out at 5. a. m. to unload boats. spend A. M. going to the Commissary for grub,
and writing. P. M. go with Lt Loughridge to camp of 8th Iowa, while there this
Regt rec's orders to be ready to march at daylight tomorrow morning with 4 days
rations in their haver sacks. Genl Smiths whole corps rec's the same orders. We
see post of the line of breastworks about this camp, which are good &
strong & 9 miles in extent, seems as though these things come by magic,
they rise so quick. Genl Veachs Div gets in this P. М.; After dark the train
comes in, there is a big shout when the train crosses the pontoons. They lost
by bushrangers 14 men drivers. & as many mules Lt Loughridge & I were
out after Tattoo to learn the cause of the cheering when the train was coming
in, & hear some sweet music in another Regt. Word in camp that in a
skirmish 3 miles from camp this P. M. several men were wounded. 2 ambulance
loads said to have come in.
SOURCE: “Diary of
John S. Morgan, Company G, Thirty-Third Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa,
Vol. XIII, No. 8, Third Series, Des Moines, April 1923, pp. 579-80
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