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Wendell D. Wiltsie diary, 1865
1865-05-20, page 2
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May 1865 class the negroes & those who had been reb soldiers but some of the rich rebel citizens look rather blue, one in particular who had boasted that if ever the yanks came in there they would have to walk over his dead body but when he saw the blue coats & glistening rifles coming over the hills he became as submissive as a lamb our Capt gave us orders not to go out side the bounds of the town & after Sun -
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May 1865 class the negroes & those who had been reb soldiers but some of the rich rebel citizens look rather blue, one in particular who had boasted that if ever the yanks came in there they would have to walk over his dead body but when he saw the blue coats & glistening rifles coming over the hills he became as submissive as a lamb our Capt gave us orders not to go out side the bounds of the town & after Sun -
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