We reached Cairo at 4 o'clock this morning and I went ashore
with my comrades to the Soldiers' Home for breakfast. We then went to the
provost marshal's office for our railroad transportation from Cairo to
Davenport. We boarded the train at noon and arrived at Centralia at 5 o'clock.
We had to lie here until after midnight when we took the Illinois Central for
La Salle, Illinois. The train was so crowded that in order to get a comfortable
place, we bought sleeping berths. The weather is cold here, and we saw
snowbanks for the first time in two years.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 175
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