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The author George C. Furber, was "engaged in the practice of law in Germantown.., " joined the 'Eagle Guards...' (Company G), after the May 24, 1846, Proclamation by the Governor.
In Texas, "we called at the next house, got some milk but could get no bread; the woman told us that they had to send thirty miles to mill--a horse mill, at that; fifty miles, in another direction, to a blacksmith's shop; forty miles to the nearest post-office, and seventy-five miles to a store, for sugar, coffee, calico; and not even a paper of pins, or a spool of thread, could be got under that distance. Yet her house is fixed upon as the county-seat of Upshur county...".
"Leaving this, we rode on, overtook the wagon, and, by steady traveling, got into the camp at sunset*."
See map of Texas counties in 1846.
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