| Monday, 21st {March,
1864} |
| ***** |
| No unusual features about the trip until
Tuesday morning, when it snowed quite a storm, but made the scenery
along the road most magnificent. The bowing pines and evergreens were
rendered picturesque and beautiful. Near West Point we had quite an
interesting episode, there being a smash-up on the track among the
freight trains {Atlanta & West Point RR}.
We were compelled to get out and flounder through the mud, around the
wreck, and take a box car to West Point, which we left on the afternoon
of the 22nd, and with no particular incidents reached Montgomery about 2
o'clock a. m. |
| {page
155-156 of John C. West's Diary, A Texas in Search of a Fight, 1901} |
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