Monday, January 13, 2025

Diary of Private William S. White, March 10, 1862

After breakfast I walked through the village of Suffolk; 'tis a pretty little place of some 2,000 inhabitants, and is the county seat of Nansemond. It presents a neat and pleasant appearance to the soldier who has been nearly a twelve month on the dull fields of the Peninsula.

SOURCE: William S. White, A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of It, p. 112

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