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Union private complains about mud in Capitol 150 years ago today (1862)

January 31, 20121860s, American Civil Waradmin

Video: Rhodes' Jan. 31, 1862, letter (at 7:47)

(Friday, January 31, 1862, during the American Civil War) — Union private Elisha Hunt Rhodes writes about the “mud, mud, mud” in Washington that’s preventing the Union Army to move.

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