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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, January 1865-July 1865
1865-03-22
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enemy in several charges last night. Some 15 hundred prisoners were taken, and they left a large number of killed & wounded in the field. This was as we got reports A.H. At sunup we had the general but we being the extreme rear Reg of the army did not move out until 4 P.M. We moved along step at a time until 8 at night then having passed the mud & 15 A.C, we went at the rate of 4 m per hour and halted in a sandy field at 11 at night having marched 12 miles, This was a very windy day, sand blowing all over us, & in our dinners
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enemy in several charges last night. Some 15 hundred prisoners were taken, and they left a large number of killed & wounded in the field. This was as we got reports A.H. At sunup we had the general but we being the extreme rear Reg of the army did not move out until 4 P.M. We moved along step at a time until 8 at night then having passed the mud & 15 A.C, we went at the rate of 4 m per hour and halted in a sandy field at 11 at night having marched 12 miles, This was a very windy day, sand blowing all over us, & in our dinners
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