Revelie at 2.45, breakfast at 3.30 Genl call at 5. Brigade
forms on the Gulf beach at 6 column of the 3d Div moves out at 8.30; in a
quandary about Corys valise; at 11. pass the camp of 1st Brig 2d Div which is
ahead, all Kinds of supplies left in camp & no one to pick them up. road
sandy & marching heavy, we camp at 2 P. M 10 miles from the Cove Miller
& I take a stroll through the woods which we find full of Spanish moss
flowers cactus &c find some families on the Bay Beach got some sweet milk
to drink. Boys get plenty of Oysters in the slough near by where they have been
planted hear that the Monitors and Gunboats all left the Cove soon after we
did. We had a long talk with the women, brush so thick could hardly get back to
camp. day has been warm.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 578
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