From Mrs. Lyon’s Diary
Fort Henry, January 21, 1863.—Trying to clear off. Company H, Captain Noyes, has gone up the river on a scout. The Tennessee has risen from ten to fifteen feet in two days, and if this snow should go off with rain it would rise considerably more. We have been perfectly comfortable in our tent. A gunboat and three transports loaded with hospital supplies were captured on the Cumberland river the same night we were in Donelson.
William sent to Paducah for two chairs for us. We had to sit on cracker boxes before. One of the soldiers says that he will put some rockers on mine.
