The whole command
stood to arms from revelie until daybreak. troops in the rifle pits too. at
9.15 the column moves out at 10. we are in line of battle & the artillery
opens on the forts of which we discover 3. Bertram brought his brigade up to
our camp at daylight but was ordered back double quick, he had taken out of the
road 15 torpedos, an orderly had been killed by the explosion of one last
night, begins to sprinkle at 10. & P. M. rains quite hard. Our batteries
keep up a steady firing to get the range & get a reply but the enemy
replies but little. The skirmish line pushes up to within 150 yds of the Reb
works and keep them well down behind them, it is reported that Smith who has
closed in on the right had captured a rebel ammunition train. Regts are camped
at dark in hollows behind hills protecting them from the fire of the enemy,
large working parties are out all night building breastworks & strong skirmish
line is kept out to protect them. I hear of 3 men killed & some 10 wounded.
The Bay in front of the Fort is said to be litterally sown with torpedos &
this Fort is said to be the Key of Mobile protecting one of the main channells
of the Bay
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, pp. 580-1
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