Regt in line to move
at 6. Rec orders to wait. At 12. I am sent with a detail to corderoy the road.
The train all stuck in the mud. men pull the wagons out with ropes. At 3. I am
relieved and report to the Regt. At 3.40 Regt in line to guard a train of 20 wagons,
(all that had been got over) to the other Brigade ahead, as they are out of
rations. Met Genl Grangers ambulances one mile out, begins to rain before we
get through rains hard & is very dark. Get through at 9. The train
sticks in the mud & is hard to get through. hear cannonading on the Bay all
P. M. we are now in the turpentine orchards, hundreds of pounds of resin on the
trees, get supper at 9, raining, retire at 10. Genl Veaches Div has overtaken
our rear. The Regt moved 6 miles today.
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. 578-9
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