We have been fixing
up for convenience as well as we can our quarters is a long open stable close
on the bluff bank of the river almost perpendicular & from 40 to 80 ft high
& close to the shore is to be seen the bottom of skifts sticking out of
watter they are fastened to 2 Rebel gun boats that our guns sunk in the navel
fight & their crews are in them
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, pp. 100-1
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