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Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell, diary

June 21, 1863

“Attended church and Sunday School. Soldiers skirmishing in street in front of our house. School dismissed in haste here, we could not get into Patrick Street for the skirmishing. A Confederate soldier, Mr. Carter of Virginia, wounded by one of Cole’s men. Captain Sturgis Davis of Baltimore, Lieutenant Riley (Chaplain) of Winchester, Virginia, and Lieutenant William Dorsey of New Market, Maryland, here”


Author

Name: Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell

Unit: N/A

Document Information

Type: Diary

Subject(s):

  • Civilian Support for the Confederacy

Event Location: Frederick City, Frederick Co., MD

Document Origin: Frederick City, Frederick Co., MD

Source

Markell, Catherine Susannah Thomas. Frederick Maryland in Peace and War 1856-1864, The Diary of Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell. Transcribed by David H. Wallace. Frederick, MD: The Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc., 2006.

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