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June 1862

Sunday 1st

Wind SE Clear. We staid at home. Mr Sinclair & Mr Curtis here in m.g.

Monday 2

Wind SE Clear. Hauling out Farm Pen Manure and scattering it. Men Cutting wood. Mr Sinclairs & Mr Curtis’ family here in Evg to eat Strawberrys I went to the C.H. Thousands of rumors about

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fighting near Richmond & at Hanover C.H. but nothing reliable or clear. Tis said all communication between this & Richmond is cut off by the extension of the Yankee Pickets into Hanover, Caroline &c &c I bought 8 lbs Salt at C H To,day [at 25 cents pr lb][underlined] People from up the County & lower King & Queen say there was severe fighting both Saturday & Sunday somewhere above the White House. I heard havy firing Sunday myself.

Tuesday 3.

Wind SE. Clear in m.g. & very hot. Cloudy in Ev.g. William & Nick ploughing Corn [I][crossed out] working it with hoes It is too wet but the grass is so bad I am bound to work it.

[This State of suspense in terrible.][undelined] Severe fighting evidently occurs every day nearly, for the firing is heard, but we can hear nothing of the results. Nor from Jacksons or Beauregard’s armies.

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June 1862

Wednesday 4th

Wind SE. Rained hard I believe nearly all last night and certainly [all][written over] to day till 4 O,clk. Every where covered with water. Grass is knee high [&][crossed out] 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.

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Thinning Corn. I went to ^ 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

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sources of information concur, even that from the Yankees ^ that