Confined to camp all day on act. of my leg. No news of any
kind in but rumored that Jeff Davis is across the Missippi, One Regt go on the
cars to Meridian today. (The 43d Ind, I believe), a steamboat took fire at the
wharf & burned today, yesterday at the dinner table at the Battle House it
so happened that a federal officer sat between two confed officers, pie was
placed on the table on plates one to each man, one of the Jonnies who I suppose
had been a long time without such luxuries having eaten all on his plate spoke
to the other, saying “If you are not going to eat all your pie pass it to me.”
The other Mr. Jonnie seems had us deep an affection for the good things as his
comrade & instead of handing his own pie handed that of the Federal
officer, who said not a word at the table of the insult, but dinner over as the
Co. was going down stairs the federal officer struck the Reb a blow that laid
him out in a state “Hors du combat,” I guess the Jonnies will learn that the
Yankees know which party holds the highest cards. The excellent treatment they
receive makes them bold & insolent. The Reb Gunboats arrived out of the Tombigbee
last night. Times are dull & nothing doing of interest, Mr. Teft formerly a
plasterer at Pelia, was all day in our camp with a portable museum, leg well
enough to take a short walk this evening.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 601
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