Fascinated British Visitor Describes Life in American Civil War (1863) // Diary of Henry Y. Thompson @VoicesofthePast

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Text taken from the diaries of Henry Yates Thompson, 1863:
amazon.com/Englishman-American-Civil-War-Diaries/dp/0283484683

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