Dark with heavy raine hard thunder, & sharp lightning. it commenced about midnight last night & has continued almost incessant since. After 9 Oc last night we had orders to return with the stea Mariner to helena immediately to take on more comisary stores, & by 11 Oe we ware there loaded up & at 9 Oc this A M we started back & tied up again in Moon Lake by 11 A M the boats of the fleete kept fired up & some of them was plying about in the lake all day, & the Iron Clads & 1 transport & one of the Mosketo fleete gun boats passed out of the lake into the cut off At 5 Oc P. M we ware again Ordered to Helena. Our boat is the comisary for the division, we started at once & arived at ¼ before 7 Oc. Afternoon I took a ramble out through the rain & mud & down to the mouth of the cut off.
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 112
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