We started again on our voyage at daylight. A high cold wind
was blowing all day. We landed at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, remaining there for
a short time, and then proceeded on our journey, arriving at Cairo, Illinois,
at 2 p. m., where we waited for further orders. Late in the afternoon we
received orders to go up the Tennessee river and left Cairo about sundown. At
Cairo there are gunboats and a large number of transports loaded with troops,
and provisions for the army up along the Tennessee river.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 36-7
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