E. Co relieves K. before daylight. The enemy & our
skirmishers talked all night. Rebs say their torpedos had sunk one of our
Monitors & would sink the rest of them. Rains part of the day. We
strengthen our protection. I learn that the Monitor which was sunk is the
Milwakee she is not destroyed & will probably be raised soon, another the
Osage was sunk today by a torpedo name Osage. The Pioneer Corps have taken out
of the road 18 more torpedos made of 64 lb percussive shells, barely buried,
the weight of a man on them will explode them. The Gunboatman have raised
several from the Bay are out in skiffs hunting them. The enemy shell the
skirmish line sharply all day.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 581
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