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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, January 1865-July 1865
1865-02-09
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the foraging, and when we filed into camp 5 PM. we looked like a portable "meat market" Roads were blockaded and small bridges burned all the way. All the white inhabitants are gone, unless we except a few old or poor poeple, and all able bodied negroes, mules, horses, cattle &c driven off, Some of the darkies saw their first "Yanks" today but they all said they had been looking for us for a long time At one time today a deer came bolting out of the woods toward us and did not notice us until the 82" Ind - which was behind us,- opened upon it
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the foraging, and when we filed into camp 5 PM. we looked like a portable "meat market" Roads were blockaded and small bridges burned all the way. All the white inhabitants are gone, unless we except a few old or poor poeple, and all able bodied negroes, mules, horses, cattle &c driven off, Some of the darkies saw their first "Yanks" today but they all said they had been looking for us for a long time At one time today a deer came bolting out of the woods toward us and did not notice us until the 82" Ind - which was behind us,- opened upon it
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