Ashley Carpenter Diary Entry:
“Aug. 29 Went to Camp at Dixon”
Hiram Leonard Diary Entry:
“29th Friday rather a fine hot day but cloudy some. I did my choars was at the office all day & evening came home about 8 by Hoyts & got home about 9 & soon went to bed tiard & sick & lonesome the soldiers all left for camp at Dixon & Wray with them it was a solem lonesom time, they say it was the most trying seen that has ever been seen in this country when they were all at Wheaton & when they left, said by some, that there were more tears shed than on any occasion in the same length of time. Left Wheaton at 11 oclock.”
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