Diary of a Marshall boy Henry Mortimer in Civil War marches
Fragments from a diary recount a Confederate era winter march through Dixie with Union soldiers. The writer describes hunger, exposure, makeshift shelter, apple jack rations, and slogging through snow to Somersett with wagons and animals, noting comradeship and harsh conditions.
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