Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Cairo

It will surprise some people when we state that Cairo is about fifty miles further South than Richmond, Virginia, and full sixty miles further South than Louisville, Kentucky.  This fact may help those doubting to believe the reports that come up from Cairo, that there is not a particle of snow there, but lots of mud.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 1

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