We stopped at Centralia this morning for breakfast, and
arrived at Cairo about 5 o'clock in the evening. Our regiment received new
tents, and marching up the Ohio, we went with our non-veteran comrades into
camp just above Cairo. There are about twenty thousand troops in camp at this
place, and a large expedition is being fitted out here, to start in a few days,
but there is no certainty as to where it is going.1 Most of the
Seventeenth Army Corps is camped here awaiting orders. It is being reorganized
and fitted out with Springfield rifles and cartridge boxes.
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1 The expedition was fitted out for the campaign
against Atlanta, under the command of General Sherman. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 183
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