Working parties return at daylight at which time the ball
opens again The Enemy were reinforcing last night from Mobile, a little bolder
& give us a shell occasionally & quite a no of minnie balls fly over
our heads, one of the 35th Iowa is killed in camp near us while packing his
Knapsacks At 9.30 Cos. "G" & "B" ordered out as
sharpshooters & skirmishers had to advance 100 yds through fallen timber
exposed to the fire of the enemy, while advancing, Martin Walraven was wounded
in the right fore arm. gain our position within 100 yds of the Fort & throw
up earth works to protect us, were relieved at 3.30 by co K, in coming away
John Mety, is wounded in the left shoulder & Jo. Dungan in the back passing
into the thigh, K Co is to stay until morning. Our Gunboats get up close enough
to lift a few shells into the main fort this P. M. When this is seen the boys
raise a shout for we all depend a great deal on the Monitors. All the Regts
build earthworks from 6 to 10 ft. high to camp behind, 1 man of the 50th Ind Killed
by a shell while in camp some guns in our camp broken by a shell. The 1st Ind
heavy artillery is reported to have arrived at the landing with 72. Mortors
& heavy Parrot guns. It is rumored that our gunboats sunk one &
disabled one transport for the enemy. 4 rockets sent up from the fort & it
is rumored that the Infty is being transported to Mobile.
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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