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Anson R. Butler letters, 1861-1900
1862-10-27 Page 1
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Memphis. here we shall lay all night unloading some freight & wait till morning. Then we have 100 miles yet to go south. The remnants and vestiges o battle are to be seen here yet in ruined boats etc On board boat, Monday morng My Dear wife, We rounded the point at Cairo and tied up in the Ohio River. Every man went with his cup to get a drink of the clear water.* We landed among numbers of steam & gun boats at a large wharf boat, with cannon on the levee above frowning down on us; 2 gunboats & 1 steamboat anchored off in the River. We lay long enough to see all the lamps along the streets lit & then as there was nothing to see went to bed on my sacks with George Rider for a bed fellow, and dreamed of you & the children. Along in the night I woke & heard such a noise that I got up & found we had landed at Columbus Ky. and were unloading our cattle. Went to bed and this morning were still tied up. Columbus fell into our hands without much fight. One building in plain sight bears evidence of shooting, as it is full of holes of all sizes. Here we found several boats tied up, among them a Hospital Boat
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Memphis. here we shall lay all night unloading some freight & wait till morning. Then we have 100 miles yet to go south. The remnants and vestiges o battle are to be seen here yet in ruined boats etc On board boat, Monday morng My Dear wife, We rounded the point at Cairo and tied up in the Ohio River. Every man went with his cup to get a drink of the clear water.* We landed among numbers of steam & gun boats at a large wharf boat, with cannon on the levee above frowning down on us; 2 gunboats & 1 steamboat anchored off in the River. We lay long enough to see all the lamps along the streets lit & then as there was nothing to see went to bed on my sacks with George Rider for a bed fellow, and dreamed of you & the children. Along in the night I woke & heard such a noise that I got up & found we had landed at Columbus Ky. and were unloading our cattle. Went to bed and this morning were still tied up. Columbus fell into our hands without much fight. One building in plain sight bears evidence of shooting, as it is full of holes of all sizes. Here we found several boats tied up, among them a Hospital Boat
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