Very little mail Belle Ve Dere starts A. M. at 2 P. M. our
Regt on board the Izetta to cross to depot. drop 4 miles below, & return to
depot. unload at 4 P. M. raining hard. move up to depot, an Irish girl brings
out hot coffee for some of the boys, at 7. load on the cars & have a 20
minutes run to Lake city, on Lake Pontchastran where at 8. P. M. cos B. G.
& K embark on board steam ship Alabama, find it full of mules & about
300 men of some 7 regts. 35 Wis, 7th Vermont, 27 & 28th Wis 1st La. &c.
at 10 weigh anchor and are off.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 575
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