Cloudy drissling
rain, very unpleasant underfoot—quite a No. not out at Roll Call—placed on
Extra Duty in consequence. Our Co. placed on Police Duty to day-by order of the
Col.
Camp McClernand Cairo Ills.
it is therefore
exempt from drill to day no news of consequences. has rained at intervals all
day The Two Gun Boats have returned, reported to have had a brush with a Gun
Boat of the Enemy's—called Yankee—near a place called Hickman in which the
latter was worsted Also bombarded the place. News of Jefferson Davis' death
this evening generally not credited
SOURCE: Transactions
of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 225
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