Thursday, October 17, 2024

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan, Sunday, January 8, 1865

Short light showers at intervals Genls R—s arrest of horse race proves to be 4 men all released Monday following. Rebels at Picket Port 170, to come in this week, others reported in camp 8 miles this side of Jenken's Ferry. (The 170 is reliable)

SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, Thirty-Third Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, Vol. XIII, No. 8, Third Series, Des Moines, April 1923, p. 570

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