Spend a pleasant day, have a skiff ride, boys fishing a
great deal, plenty of eels in the creek, the train gone in with 3 wounded of
the 91st Ill. our whole loss of yesterday, the Rebs lost by accounts of negros
who have come in since 10 killed besides the wounded, boys go out to the houses
close by & get milk butter & eggs. forage good fat beef & plenty of
meal at an old Reb commissary. at 5. P. M. cos B. & G. are relieved &
ordered to report to the Regt. 4 miles distant, get our supper over & start
at 5.30 making mile heats, it would have been all right had we not tried to
take a Short cut across to save a few steps. got lost & marched about in
the brush & sloughs for a mile before we found the regt. by which time it
was 9 o clock, found Capt with a tent up. Many flying rumors in camp. — that
Grant captured 37000 of Lees army then Lee surrendered 40,000 more, — That
Thomas has captured Forest & his men. & Thomas men skalped Forest (?) —
that Steele captured a train & 5 locomotives which attempted to run out
last night. Capt Gibson (Ex Major 33 Iowa) in C. S. Post of Mobile,
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 591
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