Morning ground
covered with snow & sleet. damp ugly day. tore down our church for wood.
Busy all day with Returns. 4 transports up Ark river. Peace rumors. Shreveport
reported taken. Wilmington ours raining at night
SOURCE: “Diary of
John S. Morgan, Company G, Thirty-Third Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa,
Vol. XIII, No. 8, Third Series, Des Moines, April 1923, p. 573
