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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, January 1865-July 1865
1865-05-01 Page 02
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warm welcome, At one place a flag had been run up pole and more than a hundred persons collected. That pole floated the best "old fly" in the state said they. Not a thing was injured along the route, not even an onion taken from a garden, nor are we allowed to burn rails, All along the road we saw paroled men from Lee's or Johnstons armies, some wounded Every house sported a paroled man and the best of feeling existed between them and us. We made a march of 25 miles before sun-set. Gen Baird had permission to keep the
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warm welcome, At one place a flag had been run up pole and more than a hundred persons collected. That pole floated the best "old fly" in the state said they. Not a thing was injured along the route, not even an onion taken from a garden, nor are we allowed to burn rails, All along the road we saw paroled men from Lee's or Johnstons armies, some wounded Every house sported a paroled man and the best of feeling existed between them and us. We made a march of 25 miles before sun-set. Gen Baird had permission to keep the
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