Genl Slack is assigned to command our Brigade. Issues orders
for drill 2 hours. Parade sundown, no enlisted men to cross the river. Gulf so
high that the black troops at Brazos cannot disembark.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 605-6
