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Creation Date
4-25-1862
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. . . the other garden but Aunt Minerva noticed it and would turn her out. A few tracks was all the damage. The damage at the store amounted to over a thousand dollars. The soldiers got into the square before daylight and broke open every store and stealing every thing they could lay their hands on that they could use or sell and it was said that their officers gave them the privilege. I mean their Colonels and under officers. When Mitchell was applied to to stop the proceedings he replied to the deputation by saying that “he had no time to devote to private matters, his country was at stake”; and for several days several thousand soldiers had their own way. At our store they took possession of the upstairs and the clerks were compelled to fasten up the lower rooms. They stole boxes of Tobacco, starch and other things and sold them for a quarter or eigth of their value. They broke in below twenty times in spite of all that could be done. Doubtless this is a total loss.
Cave City looked gloomy enough as we came through. Mr. Quigley wants to build but the other part- ners are not willing. I have no money to invest in that way. It is probable that Mr Quigley will join with somebody and put up a cheap house large enough to accommodate the railroad travel. The partners will give him for that purpose the ground for house, garden and stables, say about 20 acres. The furniture of . . .
Keywords
U.S. Civil War 1861-1865, Bowling Green, Kentucky, strawberries