Working parties
return at daylight at which time the ball opens again The Enemy were
reinforcing last night from Mobile, a little bolder & give us a shell
occasionally & quite a no[.] of minnie balls fly over our heads, one of the
35th Iowa is killed in camp near us while packing his Knapsacks At 9.30 Cos.
"G" & "B" ordered out as sharpshooters &
skirmishers had to advance 400 yds through fallen timber exposed to the fire of
the enemy, while advancing, Martin Walraven was wounded in the right fore arm. gain our position within 100 yds of the
Fort & throw up earth works to protect us, were relieved at 3.30 by co K,
in coming away John Metz is wounded in the left shoulder & Jo. Dungan in
the back passing into the thigh, K Co is to stay until morning. Our Gunboats
get up close enough to lift a few shells into the main fort this P. M. When
this is seen the boys raise a shout for we all depend a great deal on the
Monitors. All the Regts build earthworks from 6 to 10 ft. high to camp behind,
1 man of the 50th Ind Killed by a shell while in camp some guns in our camp
broken by a shell. The 1st Ind heavy artillery is reported to have arrived at
the landing with 72. Mortors & heavy Parrot guns. It is rumored that our
gunboats sunk one & disabled one transport for the enemy. 4 rockets sent up
from the fort & it is rumored that the Infty is being transported to
Mobile.
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. 581
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