Rec orders to be ready for the road at 12. m. with 1 days
rations officers & men. at noon rec orders to be ready at 6. a. m.
tomorrow. It is reported that a fort on the Tombigbee has surrendered to Smith
on same conditions Grant gave Lee. Flag of truce in from Genl Dick Taylor, Business
not known. Lt Loughridge & I take a walk after supper, call on Lt
Hook we talk with a deserter just arrived who says the Rebel reports are that
Lee left Richmond in 3 columns commanded by Genls Lee, Bushrod Johnston &
Ewell. Lees column was captured. The others escaped & joining Jo Jonston
make a combined attack on Sherman capturing 18,000 prisoners. That all the
forces in this Dept. are concentrated at Meridian under Taylor. That Thomas
captured Montgomery. That Kirby Smith has 80.000 men in Texas & intends to
take them to Missouri.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 592-3
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