Sleep all A. M. At 2 P. M. Ordnance depot in the city blows
up with a terrific explosion. Killing & wonding 1000 people, &
destroying 8 blocks of building mostly warehouses, 3 steamboats burned &
8000 bales of cotton. In the city in the evening, shells still exploding. Dock
all on fire hardly a whole glass in town, & sashes all shattered to pieces.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 603
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