Exchanged home and friends and all that was near and dear to me, for camp life, and left home, with a final farewell, for the seat of war. Went to the town of Buena Vista, Allegheny Co., Pa., to bid farewell to my oldest daughter and youngest son, and stayed all night at John Wood's. A march of 17 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 7
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