At day break our fleete commenced its onward move & moved with all the speed it was posible under the cercumstances, the part of the stream we have navigated today was crookeder if possible than what we came yesterday, but fatigue duty men ware constantly at their posts on each deck with poles to bare of against the trees to prevent damage as far as posible to the boats. Our surroundings have been similar except so far as we could see the land is nearly all under watter, evening we passed the place where the Rebbles had blockaded the stream by falling large trees into & across the stream, but our advance had raised the blockade by fastning large roaps around the buts of the trees & from 6 to 12 hundred men walked them out whole & cleared the stream but had some Skirmishing with the rebbles in which our boys ware always victors evening we tied up ½ mile below the blockade in front of a fine plantation on our right, & about the first land we have seen on that side this day there is also one in sight on the left besides this we passed a place same side all under watter but about 1 acre & the folks ware gone & now chickens also
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, pp. 112-3
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