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Showing posts with label Salt Beef. Show all posts
Friday, October 9, 2026

Diary of Colonel John Beatty, February 16, 1862

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To-day we crossed the Big Barren, and are now in Bowling Green. Turchin's brigade preceded us, and has gutted many houses. The rebels bu...
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Saturday, May 2, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 6, 1864

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Yesterday Mr. Moffitt, Lieut.-Col. Ruffin's agent (commissary), was in the market buying beef for Gen. Lee's army! And this same Mo...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 30, 1863

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It is clear and cold. The boat in which my son and the battalion of clerks went down the river yesterday, sunk, from being overloaded, just...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: December 4, 1863

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My husband bought yesterday at the Commissary's one barrel of flour, one bushel of potatoes, one peck of rice, five pounds of salt beef...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: June 29, 1864

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Up very early this morning and on the march. A hot, muggy morn. After being under way about two hours, we could hear in the distance the po...
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