Last night pickets
of 43d Ills Kill one capture one and see another bushwhacker. Colm moves at
6.30 for the Rocks, Roads 1½ good 1½ very bad. at the burned mill at 12, in our
quarters at 3 P. M. Marching orders awaiting us Find our details all back from
up rivers except corp schippers wonded in head and left at Clarksville.
Rebs captured the Chipawa with detail of 50th Ind. Rebs were 1500 with 3 pieces
Artilery. boat crew parolled Raining this Evening. recd our mail but little of
it.
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, pp. 572-3
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