Rains hard all night. grond flat & all drawn out of bed
Rains all A. M. 1st Brig 2Div starts out early men pull the batteries through.
Some Rebs seen yesterday, one Brig reported within 3 miles (?) train did not
get through, heavy detail out cording the road & building a bridge washed
away by last nights rain heavy cannonading on the Bay. all P. M. Bertrams
Brigade gets through to Fish river & find 1 Div of Smiths corps there, we
have good fires of resin
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 579
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