Wet drizzly rain all day. Fort detail relieved. Lt Seevers
brings report of a march for 10 days. No orders until near noon, orders come to
be ready by 8, A. M. tomorrow over to see Lt Sharman. he is better. Evening
prevailing opinion that it is good bye Little Rock how are you Shrevesport. A
cooperating column reported moving up Red River, nearly all the troops cav.
& Inft to go.
SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa
Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923,
p. 571