Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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

December 30, 2011

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

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 South.

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