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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, January 1865-July 1865
1865-03-05 Page 02
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that, His mildest sentence should be shooting It is bad enough to take what we need without pillaging houses, and the man who does it disgraces soldiers in the army who are honest and well disposed, We of course will all be looked upon in the same light, as robbers and vagabonds if such things are allowed and I am in favor of summary punishment upon such men, To think that a whole army must be disgraced and made to blush at their uniforms by a few damnable low-lived pups, is enough to cause an honest man to wish to desert
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that, His mildest sentence should be shooting It is bad enough to take what we need without pillaging houses, and the man who does it disgraces soldiers in the army who are honest and well disposed, We of course will all be looked upon in the same light, as robbers and vagabonds if such things are allowed and I am in favor of summary punishment upon such men, To think that a whole army must be disgraced and made to blush at their uniforms by a few damnable low-lived pups, is enough to cause an honest man to wish to desert
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