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Creation Date
4-25-1862
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54 baskets, the baskets $3.50 per 100 and the crates $2 Each. The berries will be ripe in a month or less. I hope Libby will be here by that time and that Jimmy Van Voast can accompany her. It will be better for them to come by Buffalo as the distance much shorter and the fatigue will be less.
One of my horses was sold at Louisville with the waggon, the other horse I have got home. I do not know what the horse and waggon sold for as the man was absent when I came through Louisville.
We only got our cow about 10 days ago. Some of the Federal soldiers took her out of Tom Calverts stable and had been milking her until she was found. The soldiers are a hard set. The other day I heard that some soldiers were pulling up my posts at the farm and loading a wagon with them on inquiring I found that they had been taken from just beyond my place but I thought that if allowed to go on, the next turn would be mine so I enquired of the Provost Marshall if he had given such orders and he replied no of course not. I told him that I thought it hard after the . . .
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Western Kentucky University, Exhibits, Civil War 1861-1864, Bowling Green, Kentucky, strawberries