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Chapter XXII
1871

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Jan. 16. Left Milwaukee at 3.45 P. M. for Jacksonville, Florida.
Stopped at the Briggs House, Chicago.
Jan. 17. Ice on trees, fences, wires, cornstalks, &c. N. E. side
wires down. * * * 36 miles south of Michigan City end of sleet,
little snow. * * * Louisville at midnight- -sleeping chairs on the train.
Jan. 18 Nashville 9.15 A.M. Beyond Nashville saw first cotton
field. Grass green in favorable places. Arrived at Chattanooga
7 P.M. Took sleeping car "Milwaukee."
Jan. 19 Atlanta, Ga. 4 OP.M. stopped at Kimball House. Went
to State House, Agricultural Society &c. Left for Macon at 7
P.M.
Jan. 20. At Macon had to wait from 3 1/2 to 7 A. M. Then by Cen-
tral Railroad to Savannah. Heavy frost and ice at Macon this morn-
ing.

Visited Georgia Historical Society.

Jan. 21. Left Savannah 4 P. M.- -no sleeping car.
Jan. 22. Arrived in Jacksonville 7. A. M.

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Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 23, 1871.

Dear Julia--

I arrived here Sunday (yesterday) morning at 7 am
found that Byron and his mother were living at their pleasant home
on the east bank of the St. John's river about 20 miles above, and
accordingly went up by steamboat "City Point" and am now nicely
cared for at that beautiful spot.

At Savannah I was detained twenty-four hours on account