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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, January 1865-July 1865
1865-02-06 -- 1865-02-07
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(Added note at head of page:-) Our Brig. inf, came to day beside the ruins of a town. Rain during the day and quite cold. The whole country for 4 or 5 miles back is covered with water One of the boys remarked that "in Ky we marched until we came to water before camping, but here we had to reach dry land before camping" A train ahead of us troubled us much, Kept us standing for half an hour at a time Just got our tents in a hard rain when it cleared off. 7" Had rain nearly all night, and cold, "John", [Two lines of code] Left the ruins of Robertsville behind at 2 PM and moved Nor west some 6 miles &
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(Added note at head of page:-) Our Brig. inf, came to day beside the ruins of a town. Rain during the day and quite cold. The whole country for 4 or 5 miles back is covered with water One of the boys remarked that "in Ky we marched until we came to water before camping, but here we had to reach dry land before camping" A train ahead of us troubled us much, Kept us standing for half an hour at a time Just got our tents in a hard rain when it cleared off. 7" Had rain nearly all night, and cold, "John", [Two lines of code] Left the ruins of Robertsville behind at 2 PM and moved Nor west some 6 miles &
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