At 11. A. M. Lt Cooper rode along line of Brig announcing
the rect of telegram announcing the surrender of Kirby Smith, Men cheered
lustily & fired a no of mines &c On the lame list again
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 604