We had a heavy thunderstorm and rain early this morning,
which made it very disagreeable for us on our open coal cars. We arrived at
Parkersburg on the Ohio at daylight and left the cars. We cooked and ate our
breakfast and then at about 8 o'clock went aboard the transports, and at 4
o'clock in the afternoon we left for Louisville, Kentucky. The Eleventh Iowa
and the Thirty-second Illinois Regiments are on board the transport “Empress.”
We have a fleet of five boats, which besides the “Empress” are the “Nord,” “America,”
“Revenue” and “Edinburgh,” the headquarters boat. All the boats are heavily loaded
and we are crowded, but it is much more pleasant than in the open coal cars,
and while the sun is hot, it is not so oppressive as on the railroad.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 281-2
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