Seems to be the opinion that we will remain here sometime
Regt are ordered to clear the brush from about the camp & keep them well
policed. I go to the pier at the river & take a canoe & am rowed to the
city by “99” in the short space of 43 minutes, find the town crowded with
Jonnies, plenty of stores open but no stock on yet, go to more than a dozen
shops before I could get a pair of shoes to suit me & payed the small sum
of $8.00 The city did not interest me atal & I remained but about ¾ hour,
going back to find our canoe it was gone, & I had to foot it to camp 3½ miles
which I found no fun for a lame man especially as the sun was most unsparingly
liberal with its heated rays. I heard no news in town, no paper published this
morning, a regt of Jonnies from the state of La. came in on the cars they look
pretty rough, stopped at the bridge to wash & cool off saw 2 recruits green
from the north for an Illinois Regt arrived at camp found John Alsup of co B
had been a prisoner with our men in Texas is now exchanged. reports that there
is an order in New Orleans to muster out all the troops enlisted in 1862,
Reports from Div Head Quarters are that a flag of Truce has been sent to
negotiate terms of surrender with Kirby Smith & that the reb Genl Hood
accompanied the flag to use his influence with Smith. This P. M. Div recs
orders to be in readiness to move at an hours warning & to store all
surplus baggage immediately in Mobile. This looks toward Texas. It is yet a
hidden mistery how we will move from here. Some say by water to New Orleans
others direct to Galveston & yet others that we will march to Batonrouge
went to the river this evening & had the pleasure of a fine boat ride leg
gives me but little pain
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 602
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