“There are but few men left in this locality..,”–Alexander G. Downing.

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Monday, 30th–We made all the citizens at this place take the oath; they have to take the oath not to aid or shelter those who are fighting against the Union. There are but few men left in this locality, they having enlisted, some of them in the Union army, but most of them with the [...]

Diary of Alexander G. Downing; Company E, Eleventh Iowa Infantry

“Troops are moveing some across the River, and we may soon expect lively times.”—Horatio Nelson Taft

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1861. We have had no winter weather as yet. No snow at all to lay on the ground. Today has been cool and fine. Troops are moveing some across the River, and we may soon expect lively times. I have been in the office as usual today. Col Merrick is improving, has [...]

Diary of US patent clerk Horatio Nelson Taft.

Rebel War Clerk

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A likeness of Jones when he was editor and majority owner of the Daily Madisonian during President John Tyler’s administration.

DECEMBER 30th.—Some of our officers on furlough complain of the dullness of the war. The second year will be different.

A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the Confederate States Capital, By John Beauchamp Jones

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Thursday, December 30, 2021