Day rather cool to
be agreeable drilled the co. P. M. 1 hour, rained at 3 P. M. News is that a
Rebel Ram French built has appeared in the Gulf, monitor moves up to Flag ship.
Reb flag of truce report that news in Mobile is Beauregard has defeated
Sherman, & that Lee was evacuating Richmond. The Rebel force at Mobile is
augmenting. Deserters report one division of Hoods army 10000 strong to have
arrived there.
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. 577
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