Rains hard all
night. Grond [sic] flat & all
drawn out of bed Rains all A. M. 1st Brig 2Div starts out early men pull the
batteries through. Some Rebs seen yesterday, one Brig reported within 3 miles
(?) train did not get through, heavy detail out cording the road & building
a bridge washed away by last nights rain heavy cannonading on the Bay. all P.
M. Bertrams Brigade gets through to Fish river & find 1 Div of Smiths corps
there, we have good fires of resin
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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