On picket, which comes every other day and night. All things seem to be
very quiet. Bought a watch. The first one I ever owned. Paid one of the boys
ten dollars. Wrote many letters to friends at home. When off duty visited the
many points of interest around the town. Here old John Brown was tried and hung
for treason against the state of Virginia. I visited the court house where he
was tried, the jail where he was confined, and the ground just outside of town
where he was hung. These places were pointed out to us by old residents of the
town.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary, 1862-1865, of
Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 31
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