Quite unwell this morning, with a severe attack of flux Keep
my bed all day, & at night feel no better. Lt Loughridge was in town but
could learn no news. A boat had arrived from New Orleans & brings important
dispatches for this Army but they are secret This evening 300 Negros Ft. Pillow
prisonors are brought down the river which proves they were not all killed at
least, at 8. P. M. hear loud chearing soon learn the cause to be a dispatch recd
from Wilson through Smith announcing the capture of the Traitor Jeff Davis.
There is a rumor that Texas is surrendered but needs confirmation, & it is
the Opinion that this Corps will go then whether or no, & it is said
Hawkins Div of negros will be transferred to the corps in place of Veaches Div
to be left at Mobile Smart Thunder shower this P. M.
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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