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July 1863
Wednesday 1st
Wind SE Cloudy. Working Corn.
Thursday 2
Wind SE clear. In Harvest. Hired Ransone,
and Mr Sinclair’s man Arthur to assist me
Friday 3
Wind SE. Clear In Harvest Mr Curtis & Sister Harriet here.
Saturday 4
Wind SE Clear. Finished Harvest. Hired Deal to stock
I have sixty four shocks of wheat which will
probably yield 200 to 250 Bushels. I learn the
Yankees are sending the negroes who have gone to them
away from York Town. Tis said that many refuse to
go but they are summerily knocked down & hand cuffed
and forcibly put on the steamers. I cant hear where they
are carrying them to. Poor deluded creatures they have
left their best friends to be treated worse than dogs by
by a mean cruel sordid race who would glady see them
all die for they dont know what to do with them now
that they have them, [and][struck-through] Their only motive in taking them
was to deprive the [“Rebels”][underscored] of their property and as they
think of one of the means of resisting them in this cruel
savage [and][struck-through] revengeful and unjust war they are waging
against us.
