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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, November 1864-January 1865
1864-11-23
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marched over the loveliest country our eyes ever rested upon, Oh it was beautiful, nearly level, with just enough elevations to enable one to look afar over the beautiful groves out upon the great sea of cleared land, dotted here and there by its white mansio[ns] and groupes of negro shanties At noon we marched through a clump of cedars when the famous city of Milledgeville burst upon our view, but oh! what a disappointment. Insted of the towering walls and magnificent palaces we had expected, we saw an insignificant little
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marched over the loveliest country our eyes ever rested upon, Oh it was beautiful, nearly level, with just enough elevations to enable one to look afar over the beautiful groves out upon the great sea of cleared land, dotted here and there by its white mansio[ns] and groupes of negro shanties At noon we marched through a clump of cedars when the famous city of Milledgeville burst upon our view, but oh! what a disappointment. Insted of the towering walls and magnificent palaces we had expected, we saw an insignificant little
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