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"The Harry Watkins Diary, Volume 11 [July 22, 1853–June 12, 1854]." In the digital collection The Harry Watkins Diary: Digital Edition. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hwatkins/hwatkins.0011.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 30, 2025.
Sund. (Sunday) 25th Christmas—Fine day—Reading & walking A.M. after dinner, crossed over to Kentucky and visited the Newport Barracks—The sentinel on remove…slip his post—the parade ground & guard-house, with the soldier's quarters and squads of recruits, seemed quite natural to one who had gazed on themexpand_less for some years removeanwhen a boy, and shared in the dull and monotonous routine of a soldier's life—at times
I can hardly realize that this was so, all seems as a dream—Passed an agreeable evening in the society of females—the best company that a young man can associate with To bed early
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