Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Diary of 4th Sergeant John S. Morgan: Monday, March 2, 1863

Breastworks of wood put up around all the decks. Afternoon 2 rans [rams] 1 gun boat 1 morter boat passed down, news of fleet of 22 other boats coming down. Lay in cold water stream tonight, have not advanced more then  miles today.

SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 7, January 1923, p. 484

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