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| | John Milton Cotten Ledger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | Also in the ledger is a diary in which Cotten recorded farm activities, weather, his own health and that of his wife, church and Grange meetings, and other events for April, May, and December 1876, and April through August of 1880 and 1881. |
 | | Cotten used this ledger as “family record” where he summarized important events back to 1871, such as the purchase of his farm, baptisms, the destruction of his house by fire, and joining the Grange. |
 | | Mixed in with farm records are Cotten’s reminiscences of his time fighting with the Confederate army in the Battle of Bentonville, N.C., and elsewhere in eastern North Carolina as a teenager. |
| www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/c/Cotten,John_Milton.html (308 words) |
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