A. M. to Ft. Morgan.
at 12 M. Steamer Tamanlapas crosses. to Ft Gaines, I succeed in being mustered
to date from Feb 21st 1865. Judge Ft Gaines not so good a fort as Ft. Morgan.
Return to camp at 5 P. M. Regt just from Parade listening to speech from Agent
of Orphan Asylum, Regt Subscribed about $5000. a brig loaded with lumber &
hay was wrecked on sand Island yesterday during the fog. Meet an old friend
Joel Deweese of 23d Iowa
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. 576
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