| p. sleep + twenty without food or coffee put us in a
condition to find no fault with the accomodations
if they would but let us be quiet at this time
had not made a more fatiguing march thirty three
miles without food --- or coffee is seldom made
but tiresome as it was there were many things
that seemed to amuse us connected with this days
march about one thousand contrabands had
gathered into Pulaski + joined a motley group
comprising all the colors shapes + stripes of Ethiopian
sons + daughters from the infant in army to the
venerable line with head bleached by the frosts
of a century all bound for that sweet land the
land of their freedom Alas! thought I to how
many will it prove a blessing the amount of
suffering in store for the most of these poor
unfortunates is incalculable + it is a wise
provision that they have been endowed with patience
+ long suffering to an eminent degree
25th In the morning we were put in position
in the subburbs of the town facing south east
where substantial works were at once made and
here everything seemed to indicate a degree of good fortune | p. sleep + twenty without food or coffee put us in a
condition to find no fault with the accomodations
if they would but let us be quiet at this time
had not made a more fatiguing march thirty three
miles without food --- or coffee is seldom made
but tiresome as it was there were many things
that seemed to amuse us connected with this days
march about one thousand contrabands had
gathered into Pulaski + joined a motley group
comprising all the colors shapes + stripes of Ethiopian
sons + daughters from the infant in army to the
venerable line with head bleached by the frosts
of a century all bound for that sweet land the
land of their freedom Alas! thought I to how
many will it prove a blessing the amount of
suffering in store for the most of these poor
unfortunates is incalculable + it is a wise
provision that they have been endowed with patience
+ long suffering to an eminent degree
25th In the morning we were put in position
in the subburbs of the town facing south east
where substantial works were at once made and
here everything seemed to indicate a degree of good fortune |
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