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Sunday, September 14, 2025

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty, September 24, 1861

Our Indiana friends are providing for the winter by laying in a stock of household furniture at very much less than its original cost, and without even consulting the owners. It is probable that our Ohio boys steal occasionally, but they certainly do not prosecute the business openly and courageously.

SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, pp. 69-70