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William Elmer Thorp correspondence, 1846-1868

1861-07-24 William E. Thorpe to James M. Coveney Page 7

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7 guard the rail road from the road to Roaches mill a distance of a mile and a half so we were placed along six in a place to keep watch two to watch and the others to relieve them once in two hours so that each two stood guard two hours and rested four the same as in camp the six I was in was Dan and Ira J. Sheldon F. C. Lewis and Wm Porter all Sherman boys (and Porter is the fellow who stood on the swivel at sherman the day you soldiered it there) and Jas. Howson a Fredonia boy we built us a bower to keep out the weather watched the track and picked blackberries which were very thick and the largest I ever saw (if Va. can beat us on any thing it must be blackberries) Well about five we
 
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