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

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Village Life in America.

December 14, 2012

Village Life in America, 1852 - 1872, by Caroline Cowles Richards

December.—Hon. William H. Lamport went down to Virginia to see his son and found that he had just died in the hospital from measles and pneumonia. Their only son, only eighteen years old!

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