Revelie late, the
Genl had blown in the 50th Ind & 7th Vermont before our revelie. Our
Brigade gets up before our breakfast is over this was unexpected. Genl blows
before the men have breakfast We are on the move at 7 hear the troops at Fish
river are in line of battle expecting an attack move very slowly first 2 miles
cording nearly all the road. latter part of the road pretty good & move
right along. At 1. P. M. cross the river on the pontoons to the tune. "Out
of the wilderness" or "Johny stole a ham." Was until 4. A. M.
getting camped were on 3 different grounds before we got settled, one time
tents were being pitched & supper preparing, several boats & gunboats
lie in the river. This morning the pickets were driven in by a force variously
estimated from 600 to 1000. 3 rebs killed 3 of ours wounded, the 4th Iowa &
32d Iowa are here with Smith 25000 men here now
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. 579
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