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Identifier: reminiscencesofs00loga (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences of a soldier's wife : an autobiography
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Logan, John A., Mrs., 1838-1923
Subjects: Logan, John A., Mrs., 1838-1923 Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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than the doleful pictureof it given in Martin Chuzzlewit under the fictitious nameof Eden. It was as unlike ones idea of the Eden of Para-dise as possible. Often it was deluged by overflows, whosewaters stagnated in every depression and were soon coveredby a green scum, almost cutting it off from the highlands bythat dismal swamp which extended nearly across the Statea few miles north of Cairo. There seemed little hope that acity of any importance could ever be built in that locality.Ague and other diseases from miasmatic influences frightenedaway many who came to make their homes and fortunesthere. Wooden structures, standing pools of stagnant water,bilious and listless white people, shiftless and wretchednegroes, were about all there was of Cairo prior to 1861, savethe few enterprising men who are found everywhere. Geographically so well situated, the great captains sawthat from Cairo there could be moved armies that wouldsweep the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf, southwestward, and
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John A. Logan in 1861, as colonel of the Thirty-first Illinois Regiment. A SOLDIERS WIFE 103 through Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Carolinas, to theAtlantic Ocean. Driving before them the best fighting ele-ments of the Southern Confederacy, when once on the soil ofthese States, they could gather subsistence from the countryover which they passed. They foresaw that the cotton-fieldsmust soon be given up, and corn and grain for their ownarmies and people would take the place of cotton. It wasnot for the great captains to consider the inconvenience,difficulties, and discomforts attending the mobilizing andorganizing of these armies, but to conceive and issue orders,and leave it to the patriotic volunteer officers and soldiers toexecute their plans. The small regular army was in the Eastand on the frontier. Hence Cairo was designated as the place of rendez-vous for the brigade which it was proposed should berecruited from southern Illinois. The Confederate troopsoccupied Columbus, Kentucky,

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