Start at 2 A. M.
Rowena passed us in the night. touched at St Charles at 8. A. M. negro Regt.
there & fortifications Landed at mouth of White river at 1. P. M. & camped
12 mile from river at 2 P. M. carried all our water from the river 126th Ill
& detachment of 1st Ind Cav garrison this Post under comd of Genl ———. Liu
Wm Wallace arrives from Pine Bluffs with F. I. & K cos of 1st Iowa Cav
enroute for Memphis. Some 6 or 8 boats here Weather Pleasant.
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. 574
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