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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, January 1865-July 1865
1865-03-21 -- 1865-03-22
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all Divisions engaged day before yesterday is 2000 men, many captured We worked two or three places in the road in a drenching rain part of the time, and a little before dark return to camp While out the ambulance train with wounded passed going to the Neuse River. Our train & 20 train went around to Goldsboro. A squad of 800 prisoners passed us going to Newborn. We saw several of our men who had enlisted in the Rebel army, to keep from starving, but allowed themselves to be captured in the fight 22 We heard very heavy fighting in rear of the enemy in our front and learned that is was the 15" Corps defeating the
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all Divisions engaged day before yesterday is 2000 men, many captured We worked two or three places in the road in a drenching rain part of the time, and a little before dark return to camp While out the ambulance train with wounded passed going to the Neuse River. Our train & 20 train went around to Goldsboro. A squad of 800 prisoners passed us going to Newborn. We saw several of our men who had enlisted in the Rebel army, to keep from starving, but allowed themselves to be captured in the fight 22 We heard very heavy fighting in rear of the enemy in our front and learned that is was the 15" Corps defeating the
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