About 8.30 hear a boat whistle soon after hear loud cheering
at the landing Know the news is good. News soon reaches camp that Genl Taylor
has surrendered to Genl Canby & Com. Farring to Admiral Thatcher, that the
details at work on the fort have been set to chopping wood for the fleet which
the boat was to go up to escort down This Div is ordered to Mobile on the said
fleet. I go to the landing & see the steamer Crawford just starting up the
river with the white flag on the Jackstaff, she is ½ loaded with parolled
soldiers going home Hear that Jonston had surrendered again conditions all
right. Every one is in high spirits & the opinion is 4 to 1 that we
celebrate the 4th of July at home Every available team Is hauling cord wood
from the country to the landing, see a man who says he had just come from
Columbus Ky to Mobile by rail, Go to river to bathe in the evening notice the
Octarara Is gone Has been quite warm all day.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 598-9
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