Reveille early this
morning preparations for leaving Camp McClernand, Tents struck at a few minutes
after 10 A. M. Baggage packed & loaded by ½ past 11 A. M. Companies on
parade ¼ past 12 M. Marched into Jacksonville at 1 O'clock P. M. in court yard
till 4 O'clock P. M. Marched to the cars, nothing but open cars for the men,
Large crowd at the depot to witness our departure. Had some trouble while at
the depot with private Sullivan, he was drunk had to tie him for refusing to be
still, Left Springfield at 10 minutes past 5 P. M. amid the firing of cannon
and immense cheering of the citisens 1st Sergent Browning left behind to
recruit his health, to follow up as soon as that will permit. Arrived at
Decatur without anything of moment transpiring. At 1 O'clock on the morning of
the 30th issued some rations of hard crackers & cheese to the men Changed
cars; better accommodations from there, to Cairo, in passenger coaches but
nothing better to eat. Arrived at Cairo at 4 O'clock P. M. marched to quarters on
the open plain above the city.
SOURCE: Transactions of the Illinois State
Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 223
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