Night unpleasantly cool, do not move this morning, a. m. to
the commissary for grub, after dinner Lt Sherman & I take a walk to
the river, go in the garden attached to the house & enjoy a mess of fine
ripe straw berries, rec orders late this evening for the left wing of the regt
to be ready at 6. a. m. tomorrow to go on board the gunboat Octorara, all to
take two days rations. I understand we are to be sent up this way to take
possession of a mill so as not to allow it to be burned.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 595
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