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Pages taken from a diary written by James Francis Beall from 1859 to 1866. On page 3 he refers to "some abolitionist and negroes " (John Brown), on page 15 to Ball's Bluff and on page 19 to the Federal troops who stole his crops on their way to Frederick as the "most wicked & meanest set of men in the civilised world" and the Battle at Antietam. Page 44 he reports "I have had very good luck with my lambs thus far" and "Apr. 14th 1865 President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater Washington D. C. Lee had surrendered to Grant on the 9th of April 1865".

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