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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, November 1864-January 1865
1864-12-05 Page 02
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(Jacksonboro 2 or 3 houses) and camping near Jacksonboro at sundown. To-days march was over a most singular country, it being unsettled without underbrush and thickly covered with tall pines. Two or three plantations was all we passed, and they very poor ones. The whole surface of the earth is sand, and the roads are almost ankle deep and marching difficult. The number of negroes with us is perfectly astonishing and all have tales of the most barbarous cruelty at the hands of their master.
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(Jacksonboro 2 or 3 houses) and camping near Jacksonboro at sundown. To-days march was over a most singular country, it being unsettled without underbrush and thickly covered with tall pines. Two or three plantations was all we passed, and they very poor ones. The whole surface of the earth is sand, and the roads are almost ankle deep and marching difficult. The number of negroes with us is perfectly astonishing and all have tales of the most barbarous cruelty at the hands of their master.
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