The whole command stood to arms from revelie until daybreak,
troops in the rifle pits too. at 9.15 the column moves out at 10. we are in
line of battle & the artillery opens on the forts of which we
discover 3. Bertram brought his brigade up to our camp at daylight but was
ordered back double quick, he had taken out of the road 15 torpedos, an orderly
had been killed by the explosion of one last night, begins to sprinkle at 10.
& P. M. rains quite hard. Our batteries keep up a steady firing to get the
range & get a reply but the enemy replies but little. The skirmish line
pushes up to within 150 yds of the Reb works and keep them well down behind
them, it is reported that Smith who has closed in on the right had captured a
rebel ammunition train. Regts are camped at dark in hollows behind hills
protecting them from the fire of the enemy, large working parties are out all
night building breastworks & strong skirmish line is kept out to protect
them. I hear of 3 men killed & some 10 wounded. The Bay in front of the
Fort is said to be litterally sown with torpedos & this Fort is said to be
the Key of Mobile protecting one of the main channells of the Bay
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 580-1
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