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July 1 The officers at the Asylum are directing
their attention this morning towards fur-
nishing the participents' cast-off clothing, etc, to
the troops.
2 The Chapel was sought, to be occupied by the
ladies engaged in sewing for the troops. The
Lecture-room at Church it being reported, having
been appropriated to the accomodation of the
soldiers- though since the [] application
at 9, the latter point is now (at noon) contradicted.
3 Last night very cool indeed, the dew being
exceedingly heavy. A very brilliant comet first
observed by most beholders- thus encouraging
the superstitious of its prognosticating war.
In walking to the College
leaving about dusk, I beheld at the
wood beyond the cemetary, a number of
horsemen annd of covered wagons, apparently
working their way into the edge of the
wood. I consequently learned that they
were a cavalry troop from Mecklenburg,
amounting to ninety members.
4 Not a gun ushered in this day, as often
commemorated with all due ceremony, in
this section of country. There was however
a celebration at Jamestown, and cannons were
fired there at noon.
In the afternoon the encamp-
ment of the Mecklenburg Cavalry presented
quite a [] aspect. The white teals, which
numbered some twenty, being contrasted with
the [] lawn kept close cropped by the
grazing cattle, which dotted the prospect- and
having as a back-ground the deep ver-
dence of the forest, interspersed with the
[] of the chestnut. And then [] them
[] gracefully the pale blue smoke from
the camp fires, and far away being the
sapphire sky, and the sinking sun in
the west poured forth a flower of purple
and gold, shedding a rich crimson glow
over the attractive scene. Notwithstanding
the beauty of this landscape, no [] has
been recently the influx of the soldiery, that
I was the only one from town to view what
would a few weeks ago, have called forth the
entire population.
Miss []. M. Galt with other ladies
employed in working a standard for Capt
Worth.
July 5 Another application to Miss []. M. Galt for beds,
by the surgeons of the College. 27 beds & pillows given by
her to York & Wall, the Mecklenburg Cavalry, and also
another company of the same from Cumberland,
left Williamsburg for York, at 4 o'clock p.m.
Dr M C Cole reports that there are no
beds arrived as yet from Richmond of the York
Hospital- there being much need of them in that
establishment. He confirmed the deaths of Col []
of the Louisiana Regiment; he was killed by the
enemy, who were on a scouting party, he being seeking
for a suitable shot wereupon to locate a battery. The
Doctor observed that he could scarcely realize his death,
seeing that he went forth this morning heartily, &
in such unusually good spirits. One of our men was
also wounded.
July 6 It is again becoming dusty, but there is a prospect
of rain.
7 Instead of there being preaching in the after-
noon at the Episcopal Church, the ladies
met in the Lecture-room to make beds
for the College Hospital, the minister in-
forming the congregation, that much was the
supposed necessity- in firing a cannon
on the 4th at Jamestown, I am informed that
much was the accuracy of his gunnery, that
B. Cannon split a level at which he aimed,
and which was floating down the stream.
8 Heard lemons sold in Richmond at 10
cents, and oranges at 25 cents apiece.
Miss []. M. Galt giving several beds
which she had made for the York Hospital
to the College Hospital, arose very early and
made others in their place.
[Biglers'] it is stated is shortly
to be concerted into a hospital for the sick at
York.
9 The mischief in relation to military papers is
represented as very rigid; thus I heard in-
cidents showing that many persons were stopped
at the entrenchments, and that papers were equally
required in going to Richmond, and in returning
home.
10 Messengers from the College Hospital came for []
and cloroform, it being necessary to amputate the arm
of a Louisianian, who had accidentally shot himself.
July 11 Learn that for a day or two there
has been a regiment from Louisiana,
transferred from York to the entrenchments.
Last night three musketeers
asked for supper, not being paid they
said until a day or two later: And
this morning three of their large []
are standing in the lane, [] of the
[]'s [] at the Asylum, the []
[] feeding there.
Yesterday Dr. Williamson was
searching for accounts of Bermuda, contem-
plating going thither as a residence if the
villainous Yankees perchance were successful
in subjugating the South.
12 Dr Anderson seemed to blame Virginia, for
not making a Thermopylae of Alexendria and
Hampton.
I visited the entrenchments: the tents were
some of them in the words; there was a large
number of servants employed, troops were [],
and altogether a scene of wild life and motion
was presented- there being in addition a number
of [] passing along, on foot, on horseback, in carriages
etc. I could but think [] [] facility a sky might
have made his approach and departure, unnoticed
& unharmed. Hence great care must be requisite
in such regard.
I found a large number of soldiers in
Mr Ewell's store making purchases, and the soda
fountains at the two stores where they are kept, are
twice exhausted during the day.
July 13 Report of another skirmish down []
in which some [] were taken, our
men as in general heretofore, hacing been victors.
Both the lane west of the Asylum, &
the site of the brickyard opposite to []'s
and west of the Asylum premises, seem now occupied
as feeding places for the mules- which pull
the storage wagons.
14 Dr McCabe, Chaplain to the army preached at
church.
It is said that female officers are to be
appointed at the College Hospital.
15 Col. Ewell sent me a receipt to the effect that he
had received from me $83.34, for the volunteers
in brigade.
A [] is now attached to the old
buildings back of the Asylum where the provender
of the army is stored, and in it are placed the
mules, which by a riding path are supposed with
water from the spring, which is taken in the
enclosure.
16 Someone was said to have been fired
on last night by the sentinels at the entrenchments,
thus calling out many soldiers, and exciting the
fear of a night attack.
Saw a white wreath for a soldier who
had died at Mr []'s, one dying at the
College also of the sequence of measles, and being
intered at the new cemetary on yesterday with
military honors.
July 17 Two tents pitched on the north side of the
Court-house Green- said to be for Gen. Magru-
der's sentinels.
Officers visiting the ladies after nine
o'clock, one tying his []
A Georgia soldier talking to
the ladies, wept, because he said, of the sentiments
experienced by the Georgia troops from Virginians,
some lady for example declaring, he asserted, that
she was more apprehensive of them than of the
enemy.
18 From an early hour, vehicles, etc, hastening
to the Grove, there being a rumour that the
Enemy were about to land there.
Mr D. Lambert said at ten o'clock
last night a steam-[] fired on at Jamestown,
because not stopping immediately when ordered thus
to do. He was very strongly impressed with the
strength of the fortifications there. A splendid re-
giment of North Carolinians, he stated, left Richmond
on yesterday- Gen. Lee accompanying the same
number of troops on some recent expedition, he added
that the higher officers were very strict in keeping their
proceedings entirely secret. At Jamestown he heard de-
lightful singing from a glee club; and there was also
a laud of [] formed by the soldiery.
19 Gen. Magruder wrote to ask if I could admit
his Louisianians into the Asylum, it being too
far to carry them to their homes.
20 So much water has been taken from one pump
to water the army mules, that it is exhausted not-
withstanding heavy rains.
July 20 Another skirmish reported below on yesterday,
in which a major & two other officers of the
enemy were captured.
Two Louisianian soldiers
were admitted into the Asylum, being considered
insane.
21 Dr Williamson accompanied an engineer/Dr [],
into James City, to point out the localities, []
to laying a telegraph from Richmond down
this Peninsula.
22 Weather drizzly & cool, then of noon being down
to 71[degrees]. There has been very little hot weather during
the month. Heavy rain all the afternoon, & then
by night to 67[degrees]; we had a fire in the dining-room.
[] the cannon fired in the
neighborhood, to celebrate the victorious engagement
of Bull Run, were tokens of the encounter, numbers
of the soldiery, rich & [] inched in haste down
the entrenchments.
I received a letter from Dr Beylef
of Louisville. He said that Kentucky had been
deceived into a [] position, and [] things he
thought were rapidly [] a position at which
he would have to act positively on way or the
other- that the [] before ([]) [] the Attorney
General addressed a called [] meeting, []
that Kentucky should immediately take up arms
in [] of the wicked administration and against
her Southern sisters.
23 The military authorities sent a [] offering rations
for the two crazy Louisiana soldiers, entering the
Asylum on the 20th.
Fire again this evening; [] month; then at 67[degrees]
July 23 Two companies from each regiment, making
collectively 700 men ordered away, said to
be down to []'s.
The high poles for the telegraph
down town.
24 Mr Young brought a petition for furnishing choice
articles or at least[] ones for the convalscent
etc, at the College Hospital, Dr [] inform-
ing him that he had opened in this manner two dol-
lars a day out of his own pocket, & Dr Miller some
treaty. Saying that I preferred a paper of the
kind should have signatures [] to my own,
to serv as a guide, but much not being the care, as
in other instances I allowed the [] of the petition
to name the sum which I should present- and
he designating 10, I gave 15 dollars, and added
that in the event of a deficiency, I would make
up the [] hundred myself- this being the
amount desired.
Dr Williamson said that the telegraph would
be completed in ten or twelve days; Mrs Christian men-
tioned that her son was employed in putting it up.
Mr William G. Young stated very positively
on yesterday, that there were 30,000 troops at fortress [].
25 There have been tents (16) in the college yard for a week.
26 From a computation, there must have been about
3500 mules & horses taken from the enemy
at Bull Run- counting the wagons and
the batteries.
27 I paid half of the 25 dollars, [] in
the fruit of war, to support the families of
volunteers.
July 28 In his sermon devoted to the late victory,
per [], rebuked profane swearing- as the
most prominent sin in the military.
29 General Magruder engaged as his offices
Mr Waller's outhouses.
Dr Williamson mentioned again having
spo