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July, 1861.
July, 2
Reached Buckhannon at 5 P. M., and encamped beside the Fourth Ohio, in a meadow, one mile from town.
The country through which we marched is exceedingly hilly; or, perhaps, I might say mountainous.
The scenery is delightful.
The road for miles is cut around great hills, and is just wide enough for a wagon.
A step to the left would send one tumbling a hundred or two hundred feet below, and to the right the hills rise hundreds of feet above.
The hills, half way to their summits, are covered with corn, wheat, or grass, while further up the forest is as dense as it could well have been a hundred years ago.
July, 3
For the first time to-day, I saw men bringing tobacco to market in bags.
One old man brought a bag of natural leaf into camp to sell to the soldiers, price ten cents per pound.
He brought it to a poor market, however, for the men have been bankrupt for weeks, and could not buy tobacco at a dime a bagfull.
July, 4
The Fourth has pass