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Wendell D. Wiltsie diary, 1864
1864-08-29 -- 1864-08-30
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about 2 miles, camp near a flat swampy piece of ground covered with weeds & elder [briar?] 30th fell in in the morning & marched a few rods & stacked arms & lay untill afternoon waiting for rains to pass after dinner we fell in & marched across the west point [?] [road?] (at 1/2 past 1 P.M.) about 5 miles below the [?] followed up the road about 2 miles when our skirmishers met the rebs we [double? quicked?] into position [?
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about 2 miles, camp near a flat swampy piece of ground covered with weeds & elder [briar?] 30th fell in in the morning & marched a few rods & stacked arms & lay untill afternoon waiting for rains to pass after dinner we fell in & marched across the west point [?] [road?] (at 1/2 past 1 P.M.) about 5 miles below the [?] followed up the road about 2 miles when our skirmishers met the rebs we [double? quicked?] into position [?
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