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Robert J. Moyle letters, 1862-1906
09_1862-11-25 Page 03
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The country is in some parts in a most deplorable condition especially along the Line of March of the Soldiers we went through one very nice Peice of Country & we would come to Large fields of Cotton some of them with over one hundred acres in and nobody on the place but a few negroes & some places nobody on them as most all of the whites have gone in the rebel army or Left the state i did feel sorry to see large farms without a rail around them and the Buildings distroyed some two or three large houses that we had passed that were left standing had the windows and doors carried off some had the weather Boarding tore off other chimley pulled down the men go and take
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The country is in some parts in a most deplorable condition especially along the Line of March of the Soldiers we went through one very nice Peice of Country & we would come to Large fields of Cotton some of them with over one hundred acres in and nobody on the place but a few negroes & some places nobody on them as most all of the whites have gone in the rebel army or Left the state i did feel sorry to see large farms without a rail around them and the Buildings distroyed some two or three large houses that we had passed that were left standing had the windows and doors carried off some had the weather Boarding tore off other chimley pulled down the men go and take
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