Fatigue party goes out at 5. a. m. to unload boats, spend A.
M. going to the Commissary for grub. and writing. P. M. go with Lt Loughridge
to camp of 8th Iowa, while there this Regt rec's orders to be ready to march at
daylight tomorrow morning with 4 days rations in their haver sacks. Genl Smiths
whole corps rec's the same orders. We see post of the line of breastworks about
this camp, which are good & strong & 9 miles in extent, seems as though
these things come by magic, they rise so quick. Genl Veachs Div gets in this P.
M.; After dark the train comes in, there is a big shout when the train crosses
the pontoons. They lost by bushrangers 14 men drivers. & as many mules Lt
Loughridge & I were out after Tattoo to learn the cause of the cheering
when the train was coming in, & hear some sweet music in another Regt. Word
in camp that in a skirmish 3 miles from camp this P. M. several men were
wounded. 2 ambulance loads said to have come in.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 579-80
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