Go to the rear this A. M. to see Capt who I find keeping
pretty quiet, go to the Commissary & draw 30 days rations, as money has
played out. Tobacco is issued to the men today. Every thing about the same
today along the line, Heavy details out building forts to mount heavy guns
behind The enemy shell those working parties so that it is not a safe business.
75 more prisoners arrive from Genl Steele, the night of the 1st Genl Smith
tired on a tug towing a barge, the tug cut loose & run leaving the barge to
float in to land, it was loaded with hospital supplies & there was found on
it a letter from the surgeon of the fort to some friends in Mobile which stated
that “the enemy's sharpshooters annoy us a great deal” & “have killed many
of our men”
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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