Morning with major
Boydston to Ft Morgan to go to Ft Gaines No boat. All through fort. Near the
pier & within 400 yds. of Ft. a pole which is fixed to the turret of the
Gunboat Tecumseh sunk by the explosion of a torpedo, shows the watery grave of
100 brave boys, who are yet in the great iron coffin 30 ft below the surface, 1
mile out a smokestack sticks out of the water. a little this side the pier is
the wreck of the Reb Gunboat Gaines, crippled & beached during the action
P. M. in camp. Service at 3. P. M. News—35 men of our Regt lately exchanged are
at New Orleans—Col Benton of 29th Iowa, & Col Glasgow of 23d Iowa appointed
Brevet Brig. Genl's by the President, Detailed tonight to take charge of
fatigue party tomorrow.
All experienced Rail
Road, men called for, to report to Capt Jackson. It is the purpose to make a
permanent Rail Road from Ft Morgan to Navy Com & extend around the Bay to
Mobile as the Army advances.
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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