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| | Text, Two Days with Mosby |
 | | This was the day for the regular train, and a thousand wagons were expected to leave Sheridans head-quarters, on Cedar Creek, at daylight, with a brigade of infantry as guard, and a troop of cavalry as outriders. |
 | | I was presently gratified with the sight of Mack riding ahead on the pack-horse, with the two carbines stills trapped to the saddle, but loosened, and well concealed by his heavy poncho, which he had spread as protection from the rain. |
 | | The length of this weary day, and the terrible pangs of hunger and thirst which we suffered on this barren mountain, pertain to the more common experience of a soldiers life, and I need not describe them here. |
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