At about 8 Oc our Co moved to the Boat Mariner & went on board Cos B. I. G. K. & E. the ballance of Our Reg went on board the Levina Logan & about 3 Oc we left the town of Helena Arkansas & started for the yazoo pass about 4 Oc we entered the pass a narrow shoot on the east side of the river making into the state of Mississippi just after you enter the pass a square angle makes to the left just after the angle is passed we go through the cut our boys made in the levey then the shoot is about 1½ miles long & but little wider than the boats, then, we enter moonn lake it is ½ to 1 mile wide by five miles long, it is beautifull but the ground is low, we tied up at the lower end of it for the night in front of a fine plantation a yard nicely set with evergreens, the mansion & niger quarters all about the same, poor things There is some 16 boats in all here 2 iron clads, Baron De Calb & ———— & some 4 or 5 of the mosketo fleet gun boats. I am Officer of the guard, the Chaplain & I room together. I was officer of the guard & relieved at 9 Oc
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, pp. 111-2
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