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April 5

She said that her husband was
not at home but that we should
wait until he came & that
he would let us have some
rice straw. The Corporal told
her that we had not time
to wait that we must have
it at once. & so we took of
it about 400 weight & paid
her 5 dollars for it. She said
that was nothing that they
did not want to sell it at all
that they needed it for their own
horse &c. & used pretty severe
expression against us. The
husband had told one of our men
previous that he did not believe
in the southern soldiers & talked