Start with fatigue
party at 7.30 work until 5 P. M. grading Rail Road tracks. 700 men at work
grade about 2 miles. At 12. M. great smoke in the direction of Mobile, at 3 P.
M. it is reported that Mobile is burning (?) in camp all evening.
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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