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Mann family papers, January 1864-March 1866
1864-01-17-Page 06
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and warm for a week past and we expect that the rainy season will soon set in, which will probably last six or eight weeks. To-night we are having a soft warm rain with thunder and lightning. The boys are interesting themselves lately in treasuring relics from the tree under which Grant received the surrender of Vicksburg. Although the tree was well known it had been suffered to stand untouched until some two weeks ago when some vandal cut it down and immediately there was a great rush for pieces as mementoes, and now the tree, twigs and trunk and even the roots are gone. It was a large noble specimen of an oak closely resembling the red-oak of Iowa, but is called here water - or green - oak. Some pieces have been sent to the
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and warm for a week past and we expect that the rainy season will soon set in, which will probably last six or eight weeks. To-night we are having a soft warm rain with thunder and lightning. The boys are interesting themselves lately in treasuring relics from the tree under which Grant received the surrender of Vicksburg. Although the tree was well known it had been suffered to stand untouched until some two weeks ago when some vandal cut it down and immediately there was a great rush for pieces as mementoes, and now the tree, twigs and trunk and even the roots are gone. It was a large noble specimen of an oak closely resembling the red-oak of Iowa, but is called here water - or green - oak. Some pieces have been sent to the
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