Cleared off at night. Any amount of huckster women in camp by
day light. A. M. in New Orleans to muster, did not succeed. P. M. in N. O. for
order of discharge failed on act of not finding Genl & staff. Regt inspected
P. M. clothing cut down. 27th Wis 29th Iowa & 35 Wis leave on bourd W.
Thomas this P. M. Algiers a small place & dirty. New Orleans a fine City
streets clean all stone, was in the St Charles Hotel. Orders to start tomorrow
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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