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Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell, diary
September 7, 1862
“Many Winchester boys here. Number of soldiers coming and going all day. General T. J. Jackson attended church at night with Captain Douglas---sat in William Bantz’s pew, the second back of ours. Dr. Zacharias prayed for the President of the...
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September 6, 1862
“At 10 0’clock A.M. two Confederate cavalrymen dashed up to the City Hotel, the first gray coats we have ever seen---Brad Johnson followed. The army coming in all day. Captain H. Kyd Douglas called this evening, also Archi Drish, Mr....
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September 5, 1862
“Rumors of the approach of the Confederate army. Federals burning their stores and “skedadlin.” We staid on the roof of the house until after midnight. Saw the sick from the Barrack Hospital straggling with bandaged heads etc towards Pennsylvania. Was...
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May 8, 1861
“Brad Johnson’s company left tonight for Virginia.”
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October 29, 1862
“Visited General or Barracks Hospital with Captain Lilly”
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May 2, 1861
“Attended session of state legislature at Kemp Hall.”
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July 22, 1861
“Fred returned from Virginia today.... He heard the cannon from the battle of Bull Run.... They forded the Potomac at Noland’s Ferry and both horses swam and they were obliged to get on the seat as the buggy floated. A...
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November 27, 1862
“My beloved husband is absent and I know not where he is.”
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July 15, 1861
“William Derr and a New Yorker were detained at Sandy Hook, [mistaken] for Mr. Heard and Fred---quite a mistake.”
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November 24, 1862
“Visited Lutheran Church Hospital... Visited cemetery, placed flowers on the graves of our friends of CSA who are buried there.”
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