Valley of the Shadow

Augusta County: Diary of DeWitt Clinton Gallaher (1864-1865)

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December 25th

        Christmas day. Dull day. Preaching in the old Academy byHuston (Hale? or William ) Hugh McGuire, Col. William Morgan of the 1st VirginiaCavalry, Brigadier General William Payne, and Lieut. Diggs of the cavalry allspend the night at my mother's. We had a very poor ChristmasDay but a good dinner, (the last Xmas of the war!)