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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