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August 1862
Wednesday 20th
Wind SE Clear. Put away chaff, Ploughs Harrows &c
in straw house. Worked in Garden. I went to the Ct Ho
The Yankees at York Town are part of McClellans forces
who came down the Penisula from Westover &c &c and tis
supposed the Transports which arrive there are to carry them
away to parts, to us unknown probably to Fredericksburg
May they make a speedy departure, Never to return.
Thursday 21
Wind SE Clear & cloudy alternately. Women & Boys working
the Garden. Nick & Younger repairing fences
Sister Ann finished getting out her Wheat Today. Maria
& the children went there in Evg.
Friday 22
Wind S Cloudy & a fine rain in morning Clear in Ev.g.
Chopping bushes on ditch banks & cleaning out ditches
Younger Putting hands to Grubbing hoes & axes. Put away Machine
Two Yankee deserters Massachusetts men came here late in Ev.g.
& spent the night. One of them very sick. They say the whole
of McClellans Army have left James River and are not at York
Town & Old Point and that they are going away in Transports as fast as
they can to reinforce Pope’s Army on the Rappahannock line.
I bought a Colts Six Shooter from one of them for $10-
