Revelie at 2.45,
breakfast at 3.30 Genl call at 5. Brigade forms on the Gulf beach at 6 column
of the 3d Div moves out at 8.39; in a quandary about Corys valise; at 11. pass
the camp of 1st Brig 2d Div which is ahead, all Kinds of supplies left in camp
& no one to pick them up. road sandy & marching heavy, we camp at 2 P.
M 10 miles from the Cove Miller &
I take a stroll through the woods which we find full of spanish moss flowers
cactus &c find some families on the Bay Beach got some sweet milk to drink.
Boys get plenty of Oysters in the slough near by where they have been planted hear that the Monitors and Gunboats all
left the Cove soon after we did. We had a long talk with the women, brush so
thick could hardly get back to camp. day
has been warm.
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. 578
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