Wednesday, 27th—It rained all day and there is no end of mud in our camp, which is on very low ground. Cairo is improving very fast, a great many buildings having been erected since this war broke out. The veterans still keep coming in on every train; the Eighth Iowa arrived today. About two thousand troops went aboard the transports for Huntsville, Alabama. .[1] We will be glad when we get orders to leave this mudhole.
[1] Clifton, Tennessee.—A. G. D.
