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June 1862
Wednesday 4th
Wind SE. Rained hard I believe nearly all last night
and certainly to day till 4 O,clk. Every where
covered with water. Grass is knee high many
places in the Corn & I dont know when it can be worked.
Thursday 5
Wind N & NE Cloudy all day & rained a little in Evening.
Repaired water fences. & Bridges, Stopped Cow Ponds
Cut bushes on ditch bank. Sister Ann, Martha & Mr Sheldon
dined here. A Yankee deserter passed through the farm
To,day having crossed from Guinea. I did not see him.
Friday 6
Wind N & NE Cloudy & colder. Rained a little several times
Thinning Corn.
Saturday 7
Wind W mg E Ev.g. Cloudy & a thunder cloud & rain in Evening.
Thinning Corn. I went to the C.H. Pryor Davis got from Richmond last
night, he left there last Saturday. He heard on the road that we had
gained a great Victory last Saturday & Sunday near the Chickahominy
River, in which we Killed, wounded & took the entire force (40 Thousand)
of the Yankees (who had crossed the River) with their Artillery, [Aring?]
stores, Baggage in fact every thing except a few stragglers who
escaped. I fear our success was not as decisive as that, but all
sources of information concur, even that from the Yankees in that
