Kept close to quarters all day except a short visit to the
commissary for some candles. At 11 A. M. the Gunboat Octorara returns bringing
4 or 5 men of our Regt. who had been up to Selma. Boat brings no news. Mr. Rush
gives a dinner to which Genl Benton & a no of other officers were invited.
At 12, M. a flag of truce carried by 2 Luets & 4 Privates goes out,
destination not made known. After supper attended prayer meeting in camp. About
tettoo time heard loud cheers in the 27th hearing that a boat had arrived Lt.
Laughridge & self go to the landing to get the news. No boat, but hear that
Col Patterson said “The news is glorious the war is over it is entirely played
out.” This was the cause of the cheering, how the news got here I dont know.
Rumors of the day — a deserter reports Forest 75 miles from here with 2500 men
determined to fight us. — The Reb fleet & between 2 & 3 thousand men
lie at St Stephns 25 miles above waiting to hear from Genl Taylor. — All Regts
with less than 9 months to serve ordered to New Orleans to he sent up the river
preparatory to muster out.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 598
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