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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, January 1865-July 1865
1865-01-27 -- 1865-01-28
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that we had been staying all night in Springfield, which in its balmiest days had a pop' of at least 50 souls. It is the County Seat of __ co The court house resembled an old deutch smoke house, and the whole town was a [lag?] affair trees growing up in the Public Square, Marched a mile 1/2 and camped, not being able to go farther on account of the Pontoons stopping in a box wood. 28" Passed over a miserable road much of it having to be corduroyed, Reached the main road and at Sisters Ferry turned off and went into camp. Days march 10 miles or 13,
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that we had been staying all night in Springfield, which in its balmiest days had a pop' of at least 50 souls. It is the County Seat of __ co The court house resembled an old deutch smoke house, and the whole town was a [lag?] affair trees growing up in the Public Square, Marched a mile 1/2 and camped, not being able to go farther on account of the Pontoons stopping in a box wood. 28" Passed over a miserable road much of it having to be corduroyed, Reached the main road and at Sisters Ferry turned off and went into camp. Days march 10 miles or 13,
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