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Cairo's officers slept separately from the enlisted men in quarters on the gun deck on either side of the paddle wheel, where they escaped the heat from the fireroom and boilers. The captain's quarters were directly behind the paddle wheel, but this part of Cairo was lost during the salvage operation.
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