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Day in the Life

Dec 7, 1860

Journal Entry

December 07, 1860 ~ Friday

67th I Butchered a hog, went to the canyon got a load of wood, my ax
struct a limb while choping, glanced, struck my shin, cut through
my Boot, & came near cutting my shin

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Dec 1860 - Jan 1861
Seven Southern states secede from Union. (Confederacy includes 15 states and territories by 1862.)

Dec 7, 1860