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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
The first night out we slept, or watched, at Blackmar's tavern, on the Chicago road, west of the present junction, so-called, in Cambridge. I laid down at the head of the stairs on the floor in the log house, and during the night I heard a gun fired, which in the morning I found to be from Sol. Fenstemacher, who was on guard, firing at one of Blackmar's hogs, as it insisted on coming within the lines, without giving the countersign. I found also in the morning that we had had during the night quite a hard frost, which I knew would be fatal to some corn and other vegetables which I had planted, and were just coming up out of the ground when I left. We kept marching on west for several days, without anything of special note, except the sham skirmish known as the battle of Coldwater prairie, which I had learned at headquarters was to come off in the evening after we reached there. But the history of that, and of all the incidents on the march to Niles and back again, have all been told at length by S. C. Stacy and others, and I have neither time nor space now to rehearse them. The only untold incident which I remember, was seeing the friendly Indians at Niles laughing at our target-firing with some of the old flint-lock muskets, which had been sent along for us to use.
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