War Diaries (January 4) (nonfiction)
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War Diary entries for January 4.
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Albigence Waldo:
Sunday, January 4. — I was called to relieve a Soldier tho’t to be dying—he expir’d before I reach’d the Hutt. He was an Indian—an excellent Soldier—and an obedient good natur’d fellow. He engaged for money doubtless as others do;—but he has serv’d his country faithfully—he has fought for those very people who disinherited his forefathers—having finished his pilgrimage, he was discharged from the War of Life & Death. His memory ought to be respected, more than those rich ones who supply the world with nothing better than Money and Vice.
- Diary of Surgeon Albigence Waldo - Albigence Waldo, “Valley Forge, 1777-1778. Diary of Surgeon Albigence Waldo, of the Connecticut Line,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1897)
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