E. Co relieves K.
before daylight. The enemy & our skirmishers talked all night. Rebs say
their torpedos had sunk one of our Monitors & would sink the rest of them.
Rains part of the day. We strengthen our protection. I learn that the Monitor
which was sunk is the Milwakee she is not destroyed & will probably be
raised soon. another the Osage was sunk today by a torpedo
name Osage. The Pioneer Corps have taken out of the road 18 more torpedos made
of 64 lb percussive shells, barely buried, the weight of a man on them will
explode them. The Gunboatman have raised several from the Bay are out in skiffs
hunting them. The enemy shell the skirmish line sharply all day.
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, p. 581
