Revelie at 3. A. M. At 5 Brigade falls in & starts to
the landing. are ordered back to camp to await for more boats, at 8 A. M.
ordered to the river again march down & stack arms The Blockade runner
Heroine lies here. At 11. Cos G. B. & K ordered on board the Robt Watson a
stern wheel craft, balance of Regt go on board the Magnolia, at 12, m. signal
gun is fired for the first boat to start, our boat starts at 1. P. M. We left
the Rebel fleet at the Bluffs, they yet have their colors flying over a flag of
truce, officers of their fleet on shore dressed in new suits, wagon load of
contraband come in to go to Mobile, take on most of them & just as we leave
another boat comes down the river & begins to load the balance. Was asleep
when our boat passed Nonnohubbah Bluffs, meet in the river about ½ way down one
monitor & 2 gunboats going up to accept the surrender of the Rebel Gunboats
& escort them in. Meet also 2 transports, about 8 miles above town pass the
Gertrude sunken to midway of the cabin, land at Mobile at 7.20, having made the
run in 6 hours & 20 minutes passing on the way the Jeff Davis & the C.
W. D. which was a very slow boat. Men were not allowed to go off the boat, Mr Day
of co A. just from Keokuck on his way to Regt tells us that the order is
published in the todays paper that the ’62 troops are to be mustered out before
June &c. some contrabands unloading a wench dropped her baby in the river
& it was lost, the mother didn't seem to care & tis thought the affair
was intentional, at 8.30 the rest of Regt coming up we disembarked & by the
light of the moon marched out 3 miles to camp arriving at 10 P. M. teams soon
arrived with our baggage & we turned in for the night very tired.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 599-600
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