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New Year’s Eve

“Wednesday,” Spartan Band diarist, lawyer and quartermaster clerk William H. Hill recorded. “Morning clear and cool, evening cloudy and sleeting…” 17th Mississippi Private Robert A. Moore was more eloquent: “To-day closes the year 1862 & it had been an eventful … Continue reading

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