Pass Port Hudson in the night also Battan Rouge, all day
passing through the richest contry I ever saw. fine plantations splendid houses
& villages of negro houses in regular order with streets; land at Carrolton
at 3. P. M. go off & look around but few troops here. Saw flowers in bloom,
& oranges on trees. town all the way from here to New Orleans which place
we land at at 4 P. M. Gnl Reports. we then cross & disimbark at Algiers at
4.30. any amount of Black troops, & our Brigade which is again disorganized.
Hear that Genl Steele is removed. Genl Veach assigned the comd of a Div,
raining when we land and 10. P. M. before our things get to camp. no wood &
no fire. More than 200 sailing vessels lieing in river here and about 50 to 100
steamboats some 20 gunboats, no end to small craft. Some troops leave on a
steam sailing vessel for 3d time wrecked and loss 15 men
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 574
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