Sprinkled a little during the night cloudy & promising
ruin this morning. Spend the forenoon making out some Returns. Afternoon spend
writing, sprinkled a very little A. M. Pay Master Maj Gifford commences paying
the regt at 10.45 pay all the companies except “K” “G” & “B,” which have to
lay over until tomorrow. Lt Cory come over this evening when he & I went to
the pay master & drew our pay. I was paid in full up to time of discharge
Feb 20th 1865, & ree'd $253.30. Genl Steel has arrived with his command
& Genl Smith is coming with the 10th Corps. Men visiting the city today had
to have passes approved by the Pro Marshal of the Div which had to be approved
by the Pro Marshal in the city before they could return on them, evening cool,
about 300 of Genl Taylors men come in from Meridian today & the town is
alive with grey backs.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 600
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