Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, April 27, 1864

It rained all day and there is no end of mud in our camp, which is on very low ground. Cairo is improving very fast, a great many buildings having been erected since this war broke out. The veterans still keep coming in on every train; the Eighth Iowa arrived today. About two thousand troops went aboard the transports for Huntsville, Alabama.1 We will be glad when we get orders to leave this mudhole.
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1 Clifton, Tennessee. — A. G. D.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 183

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