More than 15,000 of Gen. Pope’s army . . .

. . . arrived at Cairo one day recently on their way up the Tennessee. Uncle Sam’s larder being rather short, the soldiers very nearly gutted the town, and next morning no meats, vegetables, chickens, eggs or butter could be found in town. The Cairo Gazette says, that city contained $25,000 more after they left than id did when they came in, while the denizens of the town did without some of their meals for a day or two.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 30, 1862, p. 2