I was ordered this morning to be ready, immediately after
breakfast, with the company armed with picks, shovels, axes and bars, to
proceed to join two other companies and work on a road that was building across
the mountain. Captain Curtis did not go, as the road was in charge of another Captain.
SOURCE: Charles Fessenden Morse, Letters Written
During the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 17
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