Get the co up at 2. A. M. to get their breakfasts. At 3 take
them to the paralel & get our position before daylight, bullets & shell
keep a continual screeching & whistling over our heads. About dark Co B
which was on the skirmish line bring down a man wonded in the head, his name is
William Harris, at 8. we are relieved & return to camp, is after 10. before
we get supper over & get to bed. not being right well the day has worn
heavy on me. One piece of good news is the arrival of 300 prisoners captured by
Steele, one Maj Genl was killed I am told that when the prisoners were captured
a soldier presented his gun at the Genl saying to him dismount & surrender,
the Genl said I will surrender but will dismount for no one but a commissioned
officer Mr. soldier thought he was not safe on horseback & as he still
refused to dismount shot him killing him instantly.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 583
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