To Bagdad a. m. for provision for mess, most of streets foot
deep in water, return 11. A. M. attend Off’s call. Col sends communication from
Capt Lacy, that the 33d would go home, orders would be issued immediately &
to prepare the enc papers for muster out, go to Bagdad P. M. with nearly all
the offs of Regt return at dark, parade this eve & two offs in the line.
Genls Sheridan Steele Weitzel & Granger, pass up river for Brownville per
steamer Heroine, (of Mobile), We await Genl Steeles return for transportation.
The British ship Wolvernie fired a national salute at daybreak this morning in
honor of the aniversity of the Queens Coronation, 2 Brigades of Nigs moved up
to White Ranch last night
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 606
