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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, January 1865-July 1865
1865-02-10
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Our squad at [Maj.?]-'s house foraging. [NW?] women. [^xzy.?] [illegible]4#[illegible] #z# Negroes all along the route exhort us to go on, "[illegible] will keep [illegible], and all express an ardent wish for the overthrow of their masters. We find the negroes worse [illegible ] here than in any of the other slave states. They must all have hard masters. The poor wonder strucken mortals come to this roadside and with distinded eyes gaze upon us as though we were [unearthly]: and cannot but feel for them. All of them are barefoot, and are suffering from the cold which pierces their frames
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Our squad at [Maj.?]-'s house foraging. [NW?] women. [^xzy.?] [illegible]4#[illegible] #z# Negroes all along the route exhort us to go on, "[illegible] will keep [illegible], and all express an ardent wish for the overthrow of their masters. We find the negroes worse [illegible ] here than in any of the other slave states. They must all have hard masters. The poor wonder strucken mortals come to this roadside and with distinded eyes gaze upon us as though we were [unearthly]: and cannot but feel for them. All of them are barefoot, and are suffering from the cold which pierces their frames
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