Thursday, February 15, 2024

Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Friday, August 22, 1862

John Beard paid me $4. I sold my garden for $250. Report of Indian outbreak. Great excitement. We elected our commissioned officers-Geo. Atkinson, captain; Westley Kinney, first lieutenant; N. F. Randolph, second lieutenant. We left Lake City in War Eagle.

SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson, Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865, p. 3

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