It is quite cool and cloudy, with some rain this afternoon.
The Ohio river is rising fast. The veterans keep arriving daily at Cairo. The
Seventeenth Army Corps is being reorganized as fast as possible and sent up the
Tennessee river and landed at Clifton, and is then to march across to
Huntsville, Alabama. Our mustering rolls are being made out and we are to be
mustered in tomorrow. I received my discharge from the old service, dated December
31, 1863, and sent the certificate home for father to keep till I return.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 183-4
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