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Lt. Shelton Diary, 1864
1864-07-13 Page 04
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to me - While others have been taken from the active scenes of life many of us probably not as fit to live as them have gone into another world. What war does for a country is wonderful - When we moved up here on last Sabbath - over at Moscow there was a very nice house all the boards on it and in tolerable good repair now there is not a board on it and the floors are torn up to make beds for the Reg - about all the other houses which made the nice little town of Moscow have been burned and the chimneys alone mark the place - not a fence to be seen
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to me - While others have been taken from the active scenes of life many of us probably not as fit to live as them have gone into another world. What war does for a country is wonderful - When we moved up here on last Sabbath - over at Moscow there was a very nice house all the boards on it and in tolerable good repair now there is not a board on it and the floors are torn up to make beds for the Reg - about all the other houses which made the nice little town of Moscow have been burned and the chimneys alone mark the place - not a fence to be seen
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