Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Saturday, March 21, 1863

I got out 18 lines of Virgil; 27 refugees came up from Georgetown with Capt. McCoy and Tyler. Warm and snow melting. An old squaw 120 years old among the Chippewas.

SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson, Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865, p. 14

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