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<p>Friday 19th <br />Wind S.W. Cloudy and rained last night and very hard about day break <br />& until 19 O.clk. Thinning Corn. Cutting Poles to fence in <br />Wheat Straw. Col Wm B Taliaferro’s boy Wellington & Man Sam<br />Robbed & attempted to burn his house & make their escape to the <br />Yankees a few night since. Wellington was taken, Sam is at large <br />Col Taliaferro is with his Regiment (the 23rd) in Randolph County</p> | <p>Friday 19th <br />Wind S.W. Cloudy and rained last night and very hard about day break <br />& until 19 O.clk. Thinning Corn. Cutting Poles to fence in <br />Wheat Straw. Col Wm B Taliaferro’s boy Wellington & Man Sam<br />Robbed & attempted to burn his house & make their escape to the <br />Yankees a few night since. Wellington was taken, Sam is at large <br />Col Taliaferro is with his Regiment (the 23rd) in Randolph County</p> | ||
| − | <p>Saturday 20 <br />Wind S Cloudy & rained in mg. Clear [in Evening][struck-through] Mdn<br />a thunder cloud in Ev g. & rain till 5 O.clk then clear. <br />Thinning Corn. Cutting & hauling Poles. <br />Warner returned from Richmond this Ev.g. The <br />desasters in the North West are as bad as reported. <br />We gained a glorious victory at | + | <p>Saturday 20 <br />Wind S Cloudy & rained in mg. Clear [in Evening][struck-through] Mdn<br />a thunder cloud in Ev g. & rain till 5 O.clk then clear. <br />Thinning Corn. Cutting & hauling Poles. <br />Warner returned from Richmond this Ev.g. The <br />desasters in the North West are as bad as reported. <br />We gained a glorious victory at “<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bull Run</span>” <br />near Manassas on Thursday. Beauregard entirely <br />defeated & chased off a large force probably 15 or 20 thousand <br />with inferior numbers killing and wounding numbers estimated <br />at between five & nine hundred of the Yankees. Our loss <br />as reported by some sixty, other 130, among them Major <br />Carter Harrison & Capt Jas K Lee both good officers & men. <br />I stood guard at the Point. Maria and the <br />Children went to Wilsons Creek this Evg. The baby is <br />unwell & we thought a change would benefit her.</p> |
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<html>July 1861
Friday 19th
Wind S.W. Cloudy and rained last night and very hard about day break
& until 19 O.clk. Thinning Corn. Cutting Poles to fence in
Wheat Straw. Col Wm B Taliaferro’s boy Wellington & Man Sam
Robbed & attempted to burn his house & make their escape to the
Yankees a few night since. Wellington was taken, Sam is at large
Col Taliaferro is with his Regiment (the 23rd) in Randolph County
Saturday 20
Wind S Cloudy & rained in mg. Clear [in Evening][struck-through] Mdn
a thunder cloud in Ev g. & rain till 5 O.clk then clear.
Thinning Corn. Cutting & hauling Poles.
Warner returned from Richmond this Ev.g. The
desasters in the North West are as bad as reported.
We gained a glorious victory at “Bull Run”
near Manassas on Thursday. Beauregard entirely
defeated & chased off a large force probably 15 or 20 thousand
with inferior numbers killing and wounding numbers estimated
at between five & nine hundred of the Yankees. Our loss
as reported by some sixty, other 130, among them Major
Carter Harrison & Capt Jas K Lee both good officers & men.
I stood guard at the Point. Maria and the
Children went to Wilsons Creek this Evg. The baby is
unwell & we thought a change would benefit her.
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