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Monday, November 8, 2010

The Government is now . . .

. . . replenishing its stock of horses, repairing the waste of the winter.  Purchases are to be made in droves of from 100 to 1,000, at prices ranging from $60 to $110.  Five hundred have been shipped from Chicago, and over 1,000 from Wheeling within the past few weeks.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

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