Regt in line to move at 6. Rec orders to wait. At 12. I am
sent with a detail to corderoy the road. The train all stuck in the mud. men
pull the wagons out with ropes. At 3. I am relieved and report to the Regt. At
3.40 Regt in line to guard a train of 20 wagons, (all that had been got over)
to the other Brigade ahead, as they are out of rations. Met Genl Grangers
ambulances one mile out, begins to rain before we get through rains hard &
is very dark. Get through at 9. The train sticks in the mud & is hard to
get through, hear cannonading on the Bay all P. M. we are now in the turpentine
orchards, hundreds of pounds of resin on the trees, get supper at 9, raining,
retire at 10. Genl Veaches Div has overtaken our rear. The Regt moved 6 miles
today.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 578-9
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