Letters and diary entries from the corresponding day in the Civil War posted from the holdings of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
1862 August 19 Ohio River
[from the diary of James Dinsmore Templeton, musician and private in the 23rd Ohio]
Tuesday, Aug. 19, 1862
Left our mooring
a few miles
below Charleston
being obliged to lay
up on act of low
water got under way
entered the Ohio about
noon Came up some
distance, found the
water very low
got off at one place
& walked about [2?] miles
at annother one rafted
our boat through L[ecart?]
were treated well by
the inhabitants
tied up for the night
Clear very warm.
MSS 10317
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