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We came up very nicely on the 3d Mr Grimball Ella Lotty Harry & Racky, the sky terrier, a most intelligent and affectionate little dog. When Lewis was in Liverpool, Bob Miller gave him this puppy, & he brought it home, we are all attached to her, and she enjoys the change as much as any of us. - I am to keep her until Lewis marries, then his wife, if fond of Dogs, is to take her.
John is as happy as a child and so much like a child that
I agree with Lewis in thinking the only change in him is that
he has grown, he enjoys a joke & makes fun but - he is terribly
obstinate, which is an ascertained fact - consequently when
John says he
Mr W. Heyward has promised us a visit, and now that the house has got fixed, I shall be very glad for him to come. Lewis tells me Mrs Bulo laughed a great deal about her visit up here, and the manner in which Mrs Manigault & Mrs Grimball were taken in by her. She is not a nice person, I am afraid much of the scandal retailed about her, is true. She had very little to do with me, but was much thrown with Charlotte, riding with her on horseback, &c. Papa paid the 4 thousand to the Factors that Charles owed them.
We came up in the cars with Major Wharley and his new young wife, an English lady, & her baby, she is much taller than her old husband; and looks like his daughter; she was poor, or I am sure she could never have married that blear-eyed old creature.
It seems strange that we should be in the midst
of a revolution so quiet, and plentiful, & corn for table
up here. Everything goes on as usual, the planting, the
negroes, all just the same; & a great Empire tumbling to pieces
about us; and a great pressure in the money market in all parts
of the country; westrange to say; were never so easy, and I
Charles is coming up
We pass our evenings very pleasantly with music and reading & sewing & talking, the boys Lewis & John are agreeable. L belongs to a company in this parish and seems most anxious for a war, a restless young man: I do hope there will be no war, but a peaceful arrangement of our difficulties. -
Mr Aiken paid us a long morning visit waiting for some
friends by the cars. Mr & Mrs James baby & nurse, she was a Miss
Lowndes and he a rich New York beau, a funny time they take for
their visit; but her Mother & father live on Santee in winter
where he had a plantation they are all rich and high born. Mrs
Robert Lowndes was a Miss Livingston the daughter of Mrs Maturin
Livingston who was a Miss Lewis, the only child of Gen. Lewis
who left a fortune of a Million which Mrs M. L. on her death
divided equally among her 9 children giving thereby great
satisfaction,
to all of them. I recollect Mrs Robert Lowndes when she
first came to Charleston as a bride, and a most beautiful bride,
Received a letter from Elizabeth today, she & her
Aunt will leave
An envelope came containing cards from Emma Watts &
Lieut. Carr U.S.A. just married. When her father died nearly
2 years since the family had each 10 thousand dollars which is
a very neat fortune and Emma although not beautiful is very sensible
and amiable. It seems to me all the world are getting
married except my children. I wish a suitable offer would come
in
The Xmas passed very pleasantly with us, the
boys were all here and we had a tree fixed off in a very lively
and interesting manner with little not very much interested
in, and William and
Berkley are very sorry he has given up his support. It is a
great addition to Mr
Mrs Wayne has been talking in her flighty style about
giving her Palmetto nephews a New
Daisy Barnwell dined with Lotty on Thursday & I think
is a very fast little girl: she seemed wild with delight at
John & Arthur flirting with her: & looked very pretty, Lotty is
to dine with her
Mr Grimball is suffering from an attack of his difficult breathing, last night I had to get up & make the fire, he took his remedy but it does not relieve very soon.
A Plantation life is a very active one. This morning
I got up late having been disturbed in the night, hurried down
to have something arranged for breakfast, Ham, & eggs, wrote a
letter to Charles in answer to one he wrote about
Amy's leg continues very bad, I don't know when she will get better, a most provoking thing, for it is owing to her own stupidity.
the last day of the year, a gloomy, wet day, which were it not for the busy occupations of each hour would be very trying to the spirits. - Went to Church yesterday, and heard an excellent sermon from Mr Dickson, a retrospect of the past year, a very instructive train of thought. I have so many mercies to be thankful for, and here, while numbers are homeless, am enjoying a most comfortable establishment and what a poor creature I am, little deserving of any mercy. -
I was thinking over the children this morning and I find a loving and hopeful feeling for all of them. As people get old they become more indifferent and are spared much annoyance by not feeling or seeing things which when they were young almost crazed them.
The year began with clouds & rain. I
went out with Josey to Drive as Lucius was sent to the Depot
expecting Mr Hayward & visited Mrs Wayne, Papa & Mrs Manigault,
Papa out, Mrs Wayne preparing for a grand party, which must have
Elizabeth arrived from the North with her Aunt, who went on to Butlers Island, where she is to stay for some time, a month at least. E. looks very well in health and in spirits, and gives a pleasant account of her visit. John has been appointed Lieutenant in the State Service, and is now at Fort Moultry, where he is rather uncomfortable. -
William was at the Arsenal with his Company, Lewis
is in some trouble about his commission and has gone to
Town
Lewis returned from Town with an uncomfortable
Mr Grimball & Elizabeth arrived from Town and had seen
John. Mrs. Wayne dined, Papa arrived here before we had finished
our soup and seemed altogether in a bad humor, in answer to most
news he said he did not believe a word of it: and
We all feel very anxious about the taking of Fort
Went to see Papa on his return from Town, he had an attack last night, and seemed very tired.
Had a nice visit from Mrs Barnwell and Ann, she is
very clever. We were talking of men, I said the result of my
In looking over my account of things I find I neglected
to notice a very handsome entertainment which Mr Lewis
gave to introduce his daughter, the boys were all invited, and
Berkley & William went. They arrived at Ashapoo in time for Lunch
& afterwards went out with horses, riding or driving, & rowing
on the river. Had a very handsome dinner, sat down 30; and in
the evening music from Town, and a band with some outside additions,
& danced until five o'clock they then went to their rooms,
and after resting 3 hours had breakfast, hot cakes,
Elizabeth
Papa has determined this winter of all times to remove
Elizabeth
The first of this week Mr Grimball sent 10 men, under
the charge of Lewis, to work at the Fort which they are putting
up at the mouth of the Edisto river to protect the coast. Col.
Jenkins sent 6 hands, his son Dr. Paul, 3, Col. Ashe 10, & they
all went together. Lewis had some stores, & Georgy Jenkins, who
went with his
Lewis returned and had a very nice time was handsomely entertained and enjoyed the change, the negroes seemed to like it too. Mr John Townsand was very much interested in the Fort -
Things seem to progress, the Southern States are going out one after another and the border states undetermined. -
We dined with Papa last week, a very handsome affair,
and the party consisted of Mrs Wayne, ourselves & Miss Butler,
Charlotte's new Governess, he gave us a nice dinner. Charlotte
& her little girls & Governess took lunch with us on Saturday,
we had music, & cake, & wines, and I enjoyed Charlotte's society.
She says Miss
Things seem to progress in a slow but certain way. John is now in command of a Steamboat to watch the harbor, he alternates with Pilot and I hope will get paid for his services. -
Charles has resigned, and intends offering his services to the State of Georgia. I am sorry he will lose his pay, but the State will pay. Lewis made a visit to the Fort at Edisto to see if Bing Smith intended resigning his place of Captain, for then Lewis would try for it. -
He went down in the boat and had lunch here, at 11 o'clock, and the next day returned & dined here. 4 went with him, W. Simons, Megget, Weston, Walters, - but Bing Smith chooses to keep his post. -
We returned Mrs
Lewis went to the City & bought for me an
old fashioned wed. ring for $3, a very satisfactory arrangement. -
Lewis is now proposing to himself to apply for a commission in the Army of the State. Poor Notty's boy, I wish some thing might suit him. -
He had a very nice photograph of himself taken, and
gave it to me. He is quite a good looking follow. - Charles has
resigned, and is in the service of the State of Georgia, Lewis
met him going to Town on Public business when he came up. -
Mrs Butler still at Butler's Island. Went to see Juliet Elliott
yesterday, she is up for the Spring, she says, unless there is
a war. - She looks wonderfully, and is as usual, a gossiping,
frivolous woman - but I do not think her gifts are many, and
perhaps she does as well as she can. She told me Mrs Lucia
Lowndes was in a miserable fix with her two eldest daughters,
Lucia & Emily, they had not spoken to her for several years,
and lived while they remained at Litchfield entirely apart,
and when she came back which she did last fall, refused to
accompany her. Lucia says she intends to be a Governess, &
Emily says she intends to be a
Charlotte prefers our meetings to take place in the
afternoons as the morning is altogether taken up with her
Mrs. Brown and her step daughter came, she is the wife of the Methodist Missionary, quite a good looking & educated woman. E. stopped at the Church to practise on the organ, & came to the lunch. Mrs. Wayne had adorned her person in her peculiar style, a bunch of black lace in front of her head, a pink rose on each side like two horns, and pink strings hanging down. Her own perfect satisfaction with herself was pleasant to see; we had sausages, lamb chops, rice, & sweet meats, and she is very hospitable. -
Mr. Lewis has taken rooms at the Miles house, and Mrs.
Charlotte, her girls & Governess came to tea, an unsettled looking afternoon. The music on Sunday was not as good as it will be for Elizabeth did not understand about the stops. -
We had Annie Heyward and Ann Barnwell to dine on Wednesday, & Papa & Mrs W. expected, but her horse lame, she could not come
Annie H. is quite a nice girl, she has taken charge of her little sisters since her Mother's death, and looks like an amiable, motherly girl. She took the Sulphur Baths this Summer, and her hair fell out, she now wears a wig until it grows and looks very well in it. -
Ann B. is clever, but rather sharp, she is a very good looking girl, and has quite a taste for dress. -
Mr Grimball went to Town to see about the
boys. We understood they were to be ordered down to Morris's
Island & he wished to give them, William & Arthur, a little
money towards fixing themselves comfortably. He found they were
not at that time ordered: so he left an order
for $50 with W.
to be used if they seem to require it.
Papa went down on Monday and we went over to pay a visit to the Aikens, found Mrs A. at home, better I think, and Miss A. talked away pleasantly, as usual.
On Tuesday visited Mr Elliott and his wife and invited
Things remain as they were.
There seems to be every prospect of a peaceful
arrangement of the difficulties between the North & the
South. The Forts will be given up, and we will go on as usual.
I have been reading some old letters for the last week, and they
interest me so very much, they are from my Grandmother Manigault
to my Mother, and there are also letters from some of her Sisters
to her, they commence in 1807, about which time my Mother was
married, and end in 1822 in which year, the 22 of September, she
died, being crushed in the fall of the house they lived in, on
Sulivan's Island, during the storm of that year. It is the history
of a whole family, contained in these letters, and the lesson,
the shortness of life. These letters give an insight into the
domestic life of very accomplished people, and the charm which
elegant tastes surround life with, are very perceptible. My
Grandmother's style is very fine, so simple, & so clever, & she
describes the events daily passing around her, in a fascinating
manner. My Grandfather lived in South Carolina and determined
to move to Philadelphia where he died soon after the purchase of
an estate in the country, of
In the first place, her husband, who was a most devoted one, died when they had been married 22 years. My Mother died when she had been married 16 years. This March we have been married 31 years, is this not a cause for thankfulness. Here is a man cultivated, very much in love with his old wife of 51 years and, although not in robust health, getting on, more amiable than he was, more easy in his means and my children, such as ought to satisfy any woman, - but I wish they, the elder ones, could be settled, married well, it is for the happiness of a woman & for that of a man. I could wish that Elizabeth was well married and Berkley & Lewis; William might wait a little longer but if anyone very desirable should offer I would not object. I cannot alter this, and I think it better so, than married in an unsuitable way. -
Elizabeth went to pay a visit to Mrs Vanderhorst,
we expect them back
The pledge Lewis gave his Father the last Spring in
Mr Grimball wondered at my enjoyment of the old
letters, and says he does not like to hear them read, although
he did not know any of the people. I say, for that very reason
I enjoy “them”, they are no longer here but
I rejoice that such
charming, elegant people belonged to me, & their memory & their
lives, delight me. My Grandmother I loved, and she more than
returned the affection. Aunt Caroline we also knew. Aunt Charlotte,
Aunt Harriet, Uncle Wilcocks, Miss Mease, Mr Vaughn, Mr
Short, my Great Grandmother, Aunt Deas, Aunt George, Aunt
Balfour
Elizabeth returned from
John is now Lieutenant on board the “Lady Davis”, the first war vessel of the State.
We found that the list of Navy Officers
published did not include John, and went to the City to have it
I had a very pleasant visit, the boys were affectionate and attentive, and I had a good shopping, the children are pleased with what I got. - Mrs Wilkins was suffering from her eyes and Eliza was not feeling well. -
Papa does his business very loosely and is now engaged in a law suit with Simons about a canal. All the people who can testify in his favor are dead, with but one or two exceptions, and he has no papers to show. William has the case, and Nelson Mitchel has been since engaged in it. - Mrs Wayne has a Northern woman to visit her just now, rather a second rate sort of a person. - Mrs Mitchel.
Things are just the same in regard to the Fort, Anderson is now to be starved out. - All this time he has been allowed to furnish himself from the Market with fresh Provisions, - which is carrying out Scripture “feeding our enemy, and doing good to those who do evil to us.”
Charlotte has Mrs Bulow & Mrs Gummage on a visit to
her. C. did not altogether like them as visitors but she asked
them last Spring & felt herself obliged to confirm it this April.
They are much talked about and therefore not desirable friends,
Mrs B. a pretty, clever, coarse woman, with a little dog & a
riding horse, Mrs G. a middle aged
We have stopped the early teas.
Mrs Wayne & Mr Mitchel came to see us by invitation & take tea, they evidently expected a party and were dressed, we had no one and with the aid of Music, passed the time.
Things seem at last to have reached the
War point. The 17th Regiment has been ordered down to Morris's
Island, and The Northern Government have sent to inform the
Southern that they intend to reinforce the Forts, and collect
the revenue. A fleet is expected off the Harbour, and every
thing is in a state of preparation. - 4 of the boys are on duty,
Berkley in the Sumpter Guards, and Arthur & William in the Cadet
Riflemen. Lewis wants to volunteer in the Sumpters, I think he
ought not. John is now on constant duty, and seems actively
engaged; he wrote to us yesterday that he had been in Town for
Anchors, and found the house deserted, only Adam, covered with
White Wash. He said he was alive but he could not say kicking,
for he could hardly move one leg before the other, he was so
tired. - Mr Grimball went down to see about the boys, and found
them all gone, he will return on Saturday, and then we shall hear.
All yesterday I was in a most terrible state of anxiety and
misery, about my boys - but I know my case is not different from
others. Mrs Elliott, the Mother of William's Captain, has her
them.
Fortunately, before things came to the War, the interest was paid on the money at the North, and I have mine now in Charleston, six hundred and ninety seven dollars. I am very glad of this for it will help us through the Summer. -
Mrs Bulow & Mrs Gammage have left Charlotte, they were sent for. -
Went to Papa's this morning he had been to Mr Barnwell
to hear the news. Mr B. wrote to his wife that yesterday at 1
o'clock Gen.
Lewis went down yesterday afternoon and returned
today by an express train, he brings us news that Fort
There were none killed on either side, the Fort has been destroyed inside, - Officer's quarters burnt. -
The men looked thin & smoked up with the shells which were most of them sent by Stephen's Battery; Fort Moultry was uninjured, 5 men wounded in the evacuated Fort. -
How thankful we are, not however as much so as we ought to be;
Yesterday after Church I stopped to see Papa, this I
always do on Sunday and these visits are very pleasant to me. He
loves us all in his way & gives me some oysters which he buys
from Mr La Roche's man who brings them for sale to the Church, -
and I hear family news. During this excitement and anxiety
I do not think Charlotte has been very kind in her manners, she
I have no doubt felt, but on
such occasions people ought to
express themselves to be understood, I find her an excellent,
well principled woman, with a disagreeable temper, & no manners:
but in this world we must be thankful for the good we find in
those who belong to us, and not judge them too harshly. -
Harry during the transaction of our business together
wrote me a very nice letter, he expresses a kind interest in my
boys and I love him for it; and he hopes still for a Reconstruction.
That may be hoped for but can never, never, be.
There have been too many bitter feelings between the two sections and it seems to me it would have been just as reasonable for us to be rearranged as British provinces soon after the Revolution broke out, as for us to go back to a Government with our taunting, Fanatic, Northern brothers. -
This morning we received a very pleasant visit
from Charlotte, she feels but does not know how to express herself.
Mr Aiken also came over and paid a very pleasant visit.
He told us of the early history of General Boregard, he was a
graduate of West Point & the second honour man, he had become
very much attached to Virginia Scott, the daughter of Gen. Scott,
& was refused by both parents but accepted by the young lady,
she wrote to him but his letters were
repressed and hers ceased
after a time. This preyed on her health, she went into the Catholic
Convent at George Town, and there died, before her death
she sent for Gen. Boregard and saw him, he explained to her that
he had always written, the letters were kept from her. She died,
but 6 Months after he married another. “Men have died and worms
have eaten them but not for love”. - (And now has a second wife).
In this days paper there is an account of the evacuating
of the Fort
There seems to be a determination on the part of the Northern Government to war with us. When Major Anderson fired the salute to his Flag, 5 of his men were wounded, & 1 of them died immediately, the other not expected to live. This is very strange. I think my State has behaved most entirely according to the dictates of humanity, & true courage, in the treatment of the people in this Fort, they were fed, and beaten, & honourably dismissed. -
We have done well, & I this morning read a commendation
in the papers “the World”, an Abolition journal, of
the conduct of South Carolina, “throughout this contest & since
secession
On Sunday the scene in St. Philips was very affecting. Our Bishop Davis, now very feeble and blind was led up to the pulpit and returned thanks to Almighty God for his protection & his mercies. He, too had a relative among the troops. - Mrs Wayne went down to the City on Saturday and the cars being very much crowded & late in getting down. Lewis had to charge himself with the getting these two Mrs W. &her Mitchel in a carriage. It was 12 o'clock at night before they all got at home. Lewis found no one but his father at home & he seems quite well, the war agrees with him.
Virginia has seceded and all the border
States seem to be coming in: the movements of the U.S. Government
have been very suicidal every act tells in a way to benefit us.
There has been a riot in Philadelphia in which the Black Republican
spirit was fully exhibited, all the accounts tend to this will give peace.
Arthur was sent up from Morris's Island to the City
Every where there are commotions great and small,
in Charleston. Taking Fort
Yesterday Mrs Wayne came late & spent the evening. She
took tea, & went away at 1/2 eleven, she gave the history of her
Mitchel. She was married at the age of 16 to a young man named
Hardenbrook, he had a large fortune, settled it seems on his
children. They were divorced, and she took her maiden name, the
children are given to the father's Mother & she is allowed to
see them. 2 little boys, 1, 4, the other 7. Mr Hardenbrook this
lady says is a very abandoned man. I do not think her manners
The last visit we paid to Mr Barnwell, Ann spoke in great disgust of Miss Juliet Elliott's malicious style of remark, she said several things calculated to excite them against Charlotte & Heyward. Ann, & her Mother said this did not have that effect, but disgusted them with Juliet. - Poor old woman, a bitter, spiteful temper is a fearful companion. -
Mr Grimball returned and brought up John, who is
now a Midshipman again, with the prospect of being made Master,
like the rest of his date, as he resigned when his State did, 2
weeks before his examination, had excellent letters from the
Officers who were on board the Macedonian with him 1 of course
from the Captain, and an unusual honor, one signed by the other
Officers, - he seems to have through all the stirring events of
He sent his letters to the Secretary of the Navy, at Montgomery, and the reply from Malory was that owing to all the circumstances of the case, it should be presented to the President for consideration, and Gov. Pickens endorsed a letter from John to the same effect. - So the matter stands.
Papa has been arranging a plan for Mrs Butler to
reside for the summer at Grass
Charles writes to Papa that he has been
ill with
Mrs Butles had joined a party going North, the
journey was to be very long, round by
Mr John Elliott's Father preached for us & gave the
Communion on Sunday, the son is a better preacher. - The old
gentleman looks stuffy and fading away, as we all are. - The
mails are stopped from the North, and consequently we are
quite at a loss for news; the last accounts were very warlike,
from Maryland there had been a meeting between the people of
Lewis seems to have been very unsuccessful in his plans up here, he tried raising hogs and finding it would not pay has sold out to some man in the Pineland who I am sure will never pay him, his whole stock for $80. -
The boat has gone off to Town, and carried our numerous things and some of the servants and Elizabeth, Ella, & Lotty go off on Thursday and we the next day, Lewis takes them down and returns the next day to remain up here until Monday. He is now to be ordered on Coast duty. Bing Smith hopes to be Col. of the Regiment, and Lewis to be Captain, these young men have been all the winter in a state of great expectation and generally disappointed. - I wish they may get something to do, and feel more quiet. The war is arranging its self in and about Washington.
Virginia has Gen. Lee in charge of her forces. There
is not a great desire to fly to her aid,
in fact we are all to
be subjugated and must first secure our honors. Every thing
progresses slowly, but after the success of
This is the 3 winter we have passed in this very
comfortable establishment and I am I hope sensible of the very
great advantage of this for we formerly lived in a
We are to dine at Papa's to day, a last meeting for
this season. Papa's case seems to progress in the most uncomfortable
manner. He had a conversation with Simons at the Agricultural
dinner, which he wished Lewis to witness about, and
as L. is friendly with
We came down on the 10 the Girls & Lewis the day
before. All got down comfortably & found them well in Town. -
Since that time the servants have been sick one after another,
& I have been quite ailing, the house had to be rearranged to
The boys are all up stairs in 2 rooms 5 of them, a
sort of Barack, but they seem comfortable. Lewis is off on an
electioneering effort at Whippy Swamp, to get Bing Smith made
Col. that he may be Captain, & so go to war. - Heard from Mrs
Butler, she had arrived at her comfortable home and seemed very
thankful, gave the girls some pretty worked handkerchiefs, &
me a lovely wooden butter tub, the top of which got broken in
the Packing. - Elizabeth wrote to her, I think she will get along
very comfortably there, her affairs seem very much involved. She
wishes Papa to let her Mortgage the Money he has given her, 19
thousand dollars, & 10 thousand dollars, to Papa Lewis
& James
what she owes them. There was a very good crop harvested,
& sold,
and one never can understand this business. -
We have seen Luise
North, Marianna Petigru, Mrs C. Manigault, Harriet,
Margaret Barnwell,
& Ann, Dr Porcher, the Wilkinses, all of them, and are getting
into the usual
We have not been able to get a pew in St. Michael's Church this summer as yet and may as well give it up. The old lady we generally hire from goes down to the Island and Gen. Boregard objects to people going there as the Island is under Martial law. -
John went off this morning in the Cecile to join
the Lady Davis at Beaufort, he packed up his things in my room,
Lewis has not succeeded in getting his commission, Bing Smith is still Captain, and Lewis Lieutenant, he is in Town and seems desirous of improving himself in his profession. - Arthur is the only one we feel very anxious about just now, the whole family life must greatly surprise Papa. So much ease of intercourse between Parents and children. -
Lewis not being able to get a commission determined
to go to Virginia as a private and Mr Henry Lesegne gave him a
letter to Col. George Deas, & I gave him one, too, as he is my
Cousin. Martin gave him a letter to
Papa went to Somerville to visit Russel Middleton,
he returned quite charmed with the place and the good living. -
Papa is very naive, he told me he was better here than he had been because of his diet at my table. The Market, is high and I pay nearly $2 each day for dinner, when by ourselves it costs me 50¢.
We got on as usual, the weather is very warm. The war progresses slowly and not always satisfactorily. - Elizabeth had Miss Aiken, the Manigaults to tea, Mrs Vanderhorst & Mrs Wayne. - Mrs V. has given several parties the last very handsome. Miss Adele is the attraction, Mr Arnold the beau, William thinks it promises very fair. A. Vanderhorst has gone to the War, hoping to be made aid to B. Gen. Bee. - There have been sailing parties and Evening parties. -
The news from Virginia is rather warlike, we are all the time kept anxious about the state of affairs but time seems just to strengthen the cause of the South, and make it more probable that we shall succeed. -
I had a visit from Mrs Trenholm yesterday evening and found her very pleasant. She spoke kindly about my sons, said they were so well considered in the community and that Arthur was an honest high toned young man. Mr T. said so & he knew for he had business transactions with him. All this was very pleasant to me. -
Lewis writes very pleasantly about his campaign
in Virginia, I rather think he likes the excitement. His
The St. Paul's Rifles have been ordered to the Coast and are at Clarks Bay where they are not likely to see any service. - John is in Beaufort. -
Mr Grimball and Papa went into the Country
Papa is going to Buncomb with C. & W. engaged a room and sets off on the 20th. He has given me a barrel of small rice and $50 to buy something for myself. He gave each of the girls, E. & L. $30, & Elizabeth $40, he gave me $50 in change for house keeping & Mr Grimball one hundred bushels of seed rice. All this is to help the living. He gave Lewis money when he went off, and a little bible. - Which was very kind. -
The Wilkinses have had 2 little teas which, as they have a piano went off nicely. - We have had two, the last included Mr & Mrs Lewis, H. Manigault, and a Miss North who sings very well & is very fat & has red hair. She wishes to go to Europe, and be cultivated for a public singer, but cannot get her parents to consent to it, they live on ill terms with each other.
Ann Barnwell took Elizabeth to drive with her yesterday
We have had a constant succession of afternoon visitors, and Papa has been rather struck with it. -
In this dreary world where feeling, except for self,
seems no where, it is affecting to hear of such love as this. -
Papa went the other day to see Mr Alfred Huger and said he was
waiting to go to Buncomb with his daughter Charlotte. He looked
at him and his face all alive with feeling said “Morris, is
she any thing like the one she was called after.
The history of this heart affair is this; when Mr
Huger was a young man, he addressed my Mother's sister, Charlotte
Manigault, and she loved him, but my Grandmother could not
reconcile herself to another of her daughters being, as she said,
sacrificed at the South, so she induced Charlotte to refuse him
I have been quite ill with a pain in my head & stomach. In the years that have passed of my married life I have when ill dragged round after my duties with weak wretched feelings. Many times I have knelt down and said family prayers with a faint heart & swimming head from weakness. Now my children are grown I intend to try the other system, go to bed when I feel badly, and be waited upon, and if I live long enough shall end by pursuing the plan I like best. For the 12 confinements I had: - Motives of economy induced me to only 4 times have a regular nurse, and only twice for a whole Month, the others I had what I could get at home, & the regular nurse here was with me 2 weeks.
I believe now this was a mistake, it was thought
that I really did not wish a nurse, and not that I made a sacrifice
to what I considered necessary economy. - I recollect
now the feeling of nervous misery, when ill, with a baby; a
head paining, & the noise of children running up & down stairs,
doors slamming, &c., & that restraint which the presence of
a stranger in the nurse would have occasioned in my sick room,
not there; & the dreary details of expenditure discussed at my
bed side. Well, I have had, & now have, many blessings, but were
I to begin life again, at such times I would have a nurse & I
would nurse myself. -
Papa left us for Buncombe on the 24, he
went off in a furious annoyance at not being called for
before
half past eight so he quarreled with the hack man, I am glad
he has gone, for his rigid ways became disagreeable. We did as
well as we could for him, & I believe he was satisfied with his
visit. - The Grand Northern Army left Washington, horse foot and
flying artillery, Regulars, & Volunteers, and sang jubilant airs
along the road. A strategic movement on the part of the Southerners
brought them on to Bull Run, where the forces were ready to meet
them, and where there was a dreadful battle. Loss on both sides
and the Northern Army completely routed, all their Batteries
taken and some thousands mowed down. Gen. Bee fell Mortally
wounded, sustaining a desperate assault. Col. Johnston fell soon
after he reached the battle,
Today there is a grand Military Funeral for Bee & Johnston & Gen. Bartow who also was killed in the fight goes through to Savannah. -
May the Almighty Protect us and make us thankful. -
This battle was fought on Sunday. - Charles paid a nice little visit here and looked so well and in such good spirits I was delighted to see him, - We have not heard from Lewis since the battle.
The ladies are all as busy as possible forming themselves into relief societies for the wounded soldiers, and also to prepare clothing for them in the winter, which will soon now approach. We have some work to do, 10 long shirts for sick men. Papa gave the money for the cloth and Charlotte gave $10 & Mr Grimball $5.
The accounts from the battle continue to come in, and the Southerners seem to have behaved with the greatest courage and their Officers most successfully. -
There were services in the Church
Charles gave me an unhappy account of Richard, he seems to lead a dreary lonely life, and manage very badly. -
We heard from Lewis, a full account of
his fatigue & the Victory. Henry Middleton, a private in Hampton's
Legion was Mortally wounded during the fight, since dead, a
great lose to his family. He managed all the Large Planting
interest brought home and
The Town since the Battle has been divided into
societies for the Relief of the Wounded & Clothing for the troops.
Elizabeth belongs to both. Miss Hayne requested me to be one of
the managers to the Aid Society which I declined, but we made some
long hospital shirts and when they were sent to Miss Hayne, 10
of them, she said they were very nice and afterwards meeting
Elizabeth on the
Things go on very successfully. The Southern
forces have beaten the Union Army in the West. William was
made one of the prize commissioners and went to North Carolina
to see after a prize. He placed seals on it and took possession
and returned home, - rather a fatiguing journey to Beaufort on the
Coast. Since his return the Governor of N. C. has taken possession,
Papa writes that he has been suffering from his gout. -
Received a letter yesterday from Lewis he hopes
to soon get home & accepts thankfully the Commission of Assistant
Surgeon in the State Forces, and in reply to Arthur's wish
to go out to Virginia if in no other way as a private, says he
had better not, for it is the life of a Hound, and now unless
they enlist for the War,
Lotty is learning to draw this summer and seems to like it better than Music. - Ella & herself have a nice set of friends. -
There has been quite a flare up in Mrs Wilkinses' family,
adopted child and has a large and
increasing family. She, Adela,
is one of the self indulgent ones, and must go to Greenville
every summer, leave him to annoy his Mother & sisters.
His little daughter died at Grahamville, little Eliza,
from neglect. Adela was ill at the time. He rules at his Mother's,
is rude to his Sisters and induces Martin to be so, too, they all
had a war talk and are now better friends. In my family, the Morises,
they often
Lewis arrived from Virginia and went up that night to see about his Commission. He returned yesterday, having been obliged to wait several days to see the Governor. He had companions, for there were many there waiting for the same purpose. He returned having received his Commission he is to apply to the Surgeon General or some such person and then he will go some where. I think upon the whole it is the best, as he will be in the line of his profession. -
He looks well and upon the whole I think it has not
Heard from Papa he says Charles writes to him. Judge Law wrote to Mrs Butler she must come South. P. Butler is in Fort Lafayete New York Harbour, a prisoner. Mr Wharton her Phila lawyer is also in prison. Julian McAllister is promoted to be Captain in the U.S. forces. Mrs McAllister is with her Mother with her 2 younger children. - Ann Barnwell has an admirer in Lionel Nowel he is a clerk, gets 15 hundred a year & is said to be a very gentlemanly man.
The Troops are said to be still suffering from fevers,
&c., in Virginia. The Hospitals I expect are under the charge of
inexperienced Surgeons. After the Battle we heard that the legs
and arms were sawed off and thrown out of doors & windows and
many lives lost from ignorance. Lewis has brought home a Dressing
Gown taken from a Yankee's trunk a pistol a
After a great many delays Lewis got his appointment
Heard from Lewis he is satisfied finds a friend
in one of the Lieutenants, Tatum, an old schoolmate from Abeville
has one hundred and 50 men under his charge and a very good
Hospital Steward who saves him much trouble. The letters to
Walker are not answered, one from Elizabeth to Mrs W. who was
an old friend at school
The Marion
My dear Lotty has had an attack of fever now
for 3 or 4 days Dr Geddings says Typhoid which is always lingering.
She is the most patient child never says a word and takes
Lewis had a flare up with the Cap of his new position, North Edisto, and like a foolish boy gave up his Commission. This distressed Mr Grimball very much and he persuaded himself that if Lewis had time to reconsider this step he would repent. So he got the Department to allow it to remain until Lewis could be communicated with. We have not heard from Lewis, since. But suppose he has determined to remain the pay is 13 hundred & $20 a year. The post is very out of the way and Lewis did write but his letter was lost by the young man with his own papers the boat having swamped. -
Lotty is better she had the fever 14 days is now up & better. -
Mrs Butler was written to by her Lawyer and came from the North by the way of Washington where she got a permit from Gen. Scott, was forwarded to Fortress Monroe and from thence to Norfolk where she arrived with a Flag of Truce. She left Cornelia at School at the North. She looks very well is thinner than she was and still very handsome, expects to go to Georgia the last of the Month to be there perhaps to the end of the war.
Things seem to go on so slowly, and are so ruinously
low and high that I suppose at the end of it we shall be in a
deplorable state. I think it was all right to
The Northern property was then sold, and we were about
John is a Lieutenant, which he greatly enjoys, but
William & Arthur are much in need of Commissions they belong
to Militia Companies they do not pay except on service. The
regular companies always pay & always have something to do,
such a young man as William seems to deserve all distinction,
but it is not easily got. - How dreary life is & how sinful we
are. -
There have been some interesting speeches in Court, about the sequestration of property of alien enemies, Mr Pettegrew Nelson Mitchel on our side and others against their view. -
Mrs Butler is at the Mills House & has dined here twice & spends all her evenings with us. Her daughter is at her place at the North. - near Philadelphia. She comes on to secure her property. After spending 3 weeks here she went on to Savannah and had her business arranged to her satisfaction.
The Yankee fleet attacked Hilton Head and Bay Point
silenced the Batteries there and are now in Broad River. The
poor Beaufort people fled in every direction, leaving the Town
to be sacked by the negroes. The Batteries were abandoned it is
now thought too soon and as is always the case where there is a
failure it is considered mismanaged. Gen. Drayton, Trapier &
The Yankees have not made much progress, a Flag of
truce came from the fleet to one of the Batteries and one of
the Officers said they had no wish to disturb quiet & loyal
Citizens, the reply given by Captain 0 Barnwell was there were
no such about there. Mr Edward Barnwell has his nephew Cap W.
Barnwell, the son of the Rev. Mr Barnwell at his house desperately
wounded by accident by a pistol said to be a very
clever young man. His Mother & Sisters are with him a very sad
case. Arthur made $51 in the Medical Director's office which
I think we are in dark & trying times, and I am afraid.
The people of the Sea board so loud in their expressions of
determination while the war is in Virginia feel very faint now that
it has come upon us. The Yankees have landed on Tybee & put up
the Flag, so these two States, Georgia & South Carolina have now
the Flag of the enemy floating on their coasts. In Florida they
have Brag to Fight it out on the Coast,
The Camp seems to be a nice place William, who has lost his watch a gift from me (I think through carelessness) says they live very well in his mess. He looks very well indeed.
The war goes on and the panic which took possession of the Town and caused people to rush off in great haste to the interior, Columbia, Edgefield, &c, has rather subsided. Old Mr Matthews finding that the Yankees landed 7 miles from him burned down his Mill, his negro houses, his crop, his sons' negro houses and crop. It is said he was in rather an excited state . The poor Edisto Planters have met with great loss & annoyance. We are on the Frontier and Mr Grimball intends making some arrangements about the provisions and negroes but still hopes to plant the crop. -
There has been a terrible fire in Town and a destruction of 4 Churches, the Circular, the Catholic Cathedral, and St Peter's & a Methodist Church & the Quaker Meeting. Many fine houses destroyed and great distress. The fire broke out in a sash & blind factory and the difficulty of getting water and the previous drought and a very high wind which drove the flames caused the general destruction. This fire began at Cooper River and burnt across the City to Ashley River, the Institute Hall, St Andrews Hall, the Savings bank, & Art Museum, all destroyed, many of our friends have been sufferers, among them the Reids. Mr R. is a very kind man, and has often been amiably interested in our affairs, and now in his old age he has been deprived of his home, he is the President of the Bank of South Carolina. -
The fire burnt from 9 o'clock one night to the afternoon of the next day.
The boys have been ordered off on duty as far as John's
Xmas has passed we had a quiet time and enjoyed
a Turkey a ham and a plum pudding with the Girls Harry & John.
The Wilkinses declined dining with us and I felt rather provoked
at it. Lewis came from the country quite sick and has since
been under treatment Dr
Lewis has recovered after an illness
of 3 weeks. We nursed him faithfully and people were very kind
in asking about him, he has now passed his examination before
the board here & is waiting for orders, in the meantime has gone
in the country to pay a visit to his friend Sinclair, on the 10th
he will receive his orders. John has had two bilious attacks, now
better. Charles and Clementina gone to Savannah where he is now
on duty & her brothers are there too. Mr Grimball has paid several
visits to the City & brought Adam down to assist in nursing
Lewis. - We were fortunate that Lewis went before this board, for
Dr
John is here in charge of the Lady D, & the Gun boat: he would rather be in Savannah where there is a prospect of some service. -
All the boys except W. are now out again,
B & A joined the Marion Artillery and Lewis the
The Militia of the City was disbanded and is still in an unorganized state. William has applied for a regular Commission, and is still uncertain of getting it. Berkley & Arthur joined the Marion Artillery as the most agreeable Company being composed of gentlemen. -
I dare not think of the consequences or this war, our ruin and the loss of my brave boys but we are sadly in earnest, and I pray we may succeed. -
We are now in the midst of a great calamity
84 of Mr Grimball's negroes went off all together to Edisto we
think of course they are the best. Mr Grimball is quite unstrung
by it. Fortunately Berkley can come to him and William is still
out of Military position and they both can be with him. We shall
perhaps remove from the City and Berkley has gone to look for a
place in Anderson, or Pickens, to remove to with the remnant of
I was very much touched this morning by a visit from my Uncle, Mr Charles Manigault who offered me the use of a house of his with 8 rooms as long as I needed it free of rent. This was entirely unexpected.
Mr Grimball & W came down yesterday with the people remaining, they are lodged in the Jail or work house.
My poor husband finds himself terribly tired by his situation & I really think without God's mercy he would sink entirely under it.
Mr James Rose the President of the Rail Road Bank told Papa I might draw on his bank for the sum which is due to me and Papa must write to Harry to deposit the Money in the Bank of England. This was another unexpected kindness.
John wrote to his father & to me offering
the use of his Confederate Bonds and 9 hundred dollars of his
pay which is very kind. - I hope Mr Grimball may not be obliged
to use it. Berkley made a visit to Pickings & Anderson and found
it impossible to procure a suitable place. Mr Kirckland, the
Methodist Missionary who resided in our neighborhood offered to
rent us his house furnished to put the negroes out to service,
to come for the family and proved his sincere goodness in every
way. Berkley has such offers of kindness from Mr Paul Felder of
Mr Robertson the factor offered to let Mr Grimball
send his negroes to his plantation, he giving the 4th they made
and paying his brother for looking after them. The place is 22
miles from Town and the land poor & the
Mr G. has been wonderfully relieved by the placing the negroes with Mr Porcher and is now in the country selling his rice. The Dr has left Nat and I hope they will soon be well enough to go to the country. I feel dull and anxious.
There was a stampede
We are now in a great state of excitement,
all the low country getting into the upper country. Flying from
our Ruthless foes, we expect an attack and people are leaving
their houses and families
Mr Grimball went to Darlington to look for a place to
put his negroes and to stay himself but saw nothing very
satisfactory. A farm of 150 acres 15 miles from the Rail Road and
a house in the sand hill near Darlington Court House. - He then
went to Aiken and could not get fixed there it seemed too near
the enemy. - We are now trying in Spartanburg, the last thing
proposed was to take with Mrs Barnwell the Cherokee Springs for
1 thousand dollars for a year, Mrs B. paying 500. & we paying
500. Mrs Wilkins dividing our part with us. Mr Grimball went up
to arrange it if possible. I do not feel at all certain about it
The Town is nearly deserted by the Inhabitants,
there are some soldiers in it and the poor creatures will soon
suffer from the effects of the climate, people look forward to
a terrible summer. I feel perfectly
Mr Grimball moved us up here last week we hired a car for $75 and brought some furniture and all our clothes and some bedding and have established ourselves here, we hope only for the summer but it may be longer.
The Journey was performed comfortably and we had to
remain 2 days at the Hotel as our things were not taken out. Papa
& Mrs B. were there and our rooms were ready. We thankfully left
it on Monday for I hate a Hotel life and we are now as comfortably
fixed as circumstances will allow. The building is not entirely
finished we have the use of 2 large rooms, up
Mr Wilkins came up with her daughters soon after us,
she declined sharing with us the college as she said the
Mr Grimball had a very sudden and violent attack the
other night and I sent for Dr Boyed, he sent me a powder to
administer
The boys write pleasantly from the Marions, William has been disappointed in getting a Commission, John is on board the Arkansas the Confederate Ram on the Mississippi. -
Up here there are no outside shutters and we have to hang curtains to all the windows, and in my room there are the white curtains I had soon after I was married, nailed up to the windows. - I hope Mr Grimball will soon come back. Papa and Mrs Butler propose coming up here and joining us in house keeping. I hope it will act pleasantly and lessen our expense.
Just before we left Town Mr Rose notified me he had received $1360 for me, it is kept in his bank until called for that is a little sum in reserve I hope we may be able to get on. -
Mr Grimball still in Town but expected to day, he sent me a letter from Mary Wilcocks about Mrs McAllister, Mrs Butler's daughter. Her health is in such a critical state that it was thought proper to inform her Mother. She was dreadfully distressed, and at once said she would be glad to go on to the North to see her daughter. - Mr Grimball will go with her to Richmond to get her through. - if possible. This breaks up our pleasant housekeeping, but I am very glad we are here and able to have Papa with us, for he is very feeble, and much changed by his troubles and his age. -
Mr Wilkins is fortunate in getting a small house containing 4 rooms for $15 per Month where she will live with her daughters more comfortably, and she thinks more reasonably, than boarding. -
Gabriella and Charlotte were confirmed in Charleston
just before we left there and last Sunday it being Communion
Sunday I had the great comfort of having my 3 daughters with me
The Battle near Richmond is a glorious victory for us we have met with great losses in the lives of valuable young men but this with the signal repulse on James Island are very telling in shortening the war. - Letters from Mr Grimball from Richmond, Mrs Butler still there hoping to get through. The Rail Road had been torn up and if she succeeds in getting through she will have to ride two days in a carriage to Fredricksburg. -
We are getting on here well enough I think now we
need not have left Charleston at all, but the Change will be
of great service to all of us and already has done Gabriella a
great deal of good. William has made another unsuccessful effort
to obtain a Commission that way to distinction is evidently
closed to him, and we may just as well reconcile ourselves to
it. I feel very anxious about John, he wrote to his Father asking
for money and was sent a letter containing $50
He was at Atlanta Georgia getting Ordinance stores for the Gun Boat. -
We have heard from John, he has been through a severe fight in the Arkansas and was unhurt.
There is a Mrs Stevens up here who is the wife of
the 1 Lieutenant on board the Arkansas & we have seen her. She
We pay $40 per Month for this East Wing of the St
John's College. Papa stays with us & has the use of the 3 rooms
down
Elizabeth teaches Lotty & Harry, and through her
kindness they are not left in perfect ignorance. I am afraid it
tries her temper greatly. There is a State Institution near this
Village for the Blind & Deaf & Dumb. We visited it and were
pleased with the exercises. Mr Grimball is now here dull &
Elizabeth hears from Clementina she says “Our pay has
been reduced and still I put up every Month a treasure for Charles,
he says he walks up and down his room and thinks of the sums he
has squandered on trinkets
We are 3 quarters of a mile from the Village and can
easily walk there, we go to Church on Sunday. Papa drives me
there but he is now disgusted with the Services being irregular,
and that the people the Vestry, have refused Mr Hunter the
Mrs Hunter is a very pretty & agreeable woman we have seen her often. -
The Repulse of the enemy on James Island in which the
Sumpter Guards played so conspicuous a part and in which Captain
King, Mrs Sue
This morning a letter was received from
Mrs. Stevens the wife of John's 1 Lieutenant has been very kind in getting her husband to join John's name with his in the Telegrams he sends and she always lets me see them. I feel very much her kindness and we went yesterday to thank her and found her at home looking very sad she has no children. - and would like to join her husband.
Mrs. Stevens wrote me a note yesterday morning to say that she had permission from her husband to join him at Vicksburg and she would be glad to take letters or a parcel for John so we all wrote letters made them in a packet and gave them to her for she came in the afternoon to see us. This morning she went off on her long journey to reach her husband. I hope she will get there safe, and find them well. I showed her the Ambrotypes of my 5 eldest sons & introduced her to John. -
We were all very much delighted a few days since
by getting a letter from William announcing his change to Fort
We have received a long letter from John
giving an account of the 3 engagements in which he was in the
Arkansas they were most brilliant and the vessel did wonderfully
for the Machinery evidently was not of sufficient force to make
the vessel effective. The Majestic way in which she moved was as
fast as she could go. The end of this was naturally the destruction
of the vessel. We are now most anxious to hear from John he
Mr & Mrs Vanderhorst are up here for change of air they remained a few days in the Village spent an evening with us, were at the Palmetoe house, and then to the Cherokee Springs. Arnoldus Vanderhorst has had a duel with Alfred Rhett, neither of them hurt, the bench of honor managing the affair.
On Tuesday 19 August after Tea, John came to us, having a furlough, to get his clothes. He traveled a long way, and it was a great comfort to see him, but he only remained with us 2 days, he has gone through many perils, and is unhurt, but he returns to the Battery, where he is stationed at Vicksburg, and is very much exposed to the climate. - I felt dreadfully at parting with him, but these are times of such miserable anxiety and there are such family losses, that we have a sort of stunned and bewildered feeling, as if we were all struggling on some dusty tiresome road, and had at long intervals a pleasant meeting, and then our friends passed on, more quickly, and we lost sight of them. The war seems to be as far from its end as ever, and what is to become of us, should it continue?
Mr & Mrs Vanderhorst stopped here on their way to
the Rail Road
About 3 weeks since, Heyward Manigault paid us a visit of a week occupying Mrs Butler's room next to Papa's. He was very quiet and seemed pleased. Charlotte has written to Elizabeth from Greenville where they are passing the summer that he was very much pleased with his visit and found us very comfortably fixed. He is thinking of establishing himself in Greenville moving his negroes and selling out at Wiltown. -
Mr Lewis has come up to look for a place to move his negroes & to fix his family. -
Heyward was very kind in getting me some chimneys for the lamp we burn, in Greenville & sending them by the Stage, - they fit very nicely & got here quite safe. -
Mr Grimball has bought for William and for Arthur pants up here of domestic cloth very good & sent them down. John took for Mrs Stevens a large bundle for her son, such a one as I should not like to impose upon any one for it took up so much room in his trunk and he was not able to put in his blanket and hope he did not thereby lose it. -
Miss Becky Carson came to see Ella Lotty & asked the
3 girls to tea. They went and found it very pleasant. Miss Legg
called to see them
Ripley became so Morose when he got to Virginia, that his aids generally resigned. - We have not heard from John but Orders have reached here for him to join the Baltic in Mobile. I am always anxious about him. - August has passed and here is September with no great change in our affairs. - We have no reason to be very much discontented just now we have many comforts, and are well, but the anxiety about absent exposed members of the family continues all the time. William does not write in a way to make one feel happy, he seems disappointed, and that is not pleasant. - Arthur got his pantaloons which were sent to him. Berkley writes in a quiet resigned spirit, which is rather soothing, and Lewis in an affectionate way about his brothers, which we all like Arthur in good spirits, about what surrounds him. -
Elizabeth devotes all her mornings to teaching Lotty & Harry and in so doing tires herself very much and in the case of Harry is conferring a benefit most thankfully received. I know no one so cultivated and elegant in her manners as Elizabeth, or accomplished, she has a disciplined, and highly improved mind, and is the help to her parents & her brothers & sisters, and the adorning attraction to the family circle.
Gabriella is trying earnestly to cultivate herself,
and I am afraid labours too hard to attain her object. She is
Ann Smith & Mrs Eddings came to see us yesterday afternoon & Juliett Eddings, Miss Atkinson from the other Wing came in to tell us good bye she is going to pass some time with her Sister, Mrs Dozier the wife of Lieutenant D who has a house in Charleston. -
There are great successes to our arms
in Virginia and I fear great losses. Mrs Irwin our landlady came
in after tea to tell us of it a very kind hospitable woman quite
a register of family events in the society which surrounds her,
but although she narrates well and accurately and takes one
through the lives of those she talks of from the cradle to the
tomb the perfect ignorance about these people, except from what
she says makes one take no sort of interest in them, it is just
simply life & death. - Dr Whiteford Smith who is the President
of the
Dr Smith thinks the war will be a great benefit to
the country, enlargement of mind to very ignorant, contracted,
country people. The families of soldiers now take news papers,
and if they can't read themselves they get people to read to
them, and some of them have learned to read themselves. One woman
in his neighborhood whose husband, a hard working man and gone
off to the wars, had learnt to write & read writing since her
husband left her, and he had, too, learned to read & write that
he might write to her, she could read his letters, but no other
writing. - Dr S talked in the most charming way of Bulwer's
Novels, he prefers the Caxtons & My Novel to all his other books,
and Ducroux, does not like Dickens, thinks his
We walk every afternoon and get on very comfortably. -
News was brought yesterday that we had
again gained a great Victory, at the old battle
ground Manassas,
Mrs Walker who keeps a Hotel here went to Richmond,
after the first of the battles, in that neighborhood, to bring
home her son's body, said to be killed. She found him severely
wounded and brought him home, he is now well except a
A lady of Richmond daily accompanied by two servants brought, and administered herself, a quantity of fine, nutritious chicken soup. One young man had an old negro man who sat by him & fanned off the flies. She stopped and told him she hoped he would get well, he shook his head and said no, he could not he was too badly wounded, the servant remained with him until he died, and then after preparing his body for the grave, bundled up his things, put them on his head and went off home.
The Grave Yard where the Military burial takes place
There has been so much counterfeiting of Confederate
Bank bills that all the 20
We heard from Mrs Butler, her grandchildren have been sent to California to their father and she says she is perfectly crushed and miserable poor dear soul how dreary life will be to her: she perfectly idolized her daughter. -
Papa called me down
We hear from Mrs Irwin and others of the distress of
Miss Legg. She seems broken hearted. She has been engaged 3
years to Mr Palmer, he is from the low Country, was handsome,
well born, rich and cultivated. The 3 young men, Whiteford Smith
Capers & Palmer were in the Spartan Rifles and shot by one ball &
found lying close together. It would have been a comfort to this
poor girl if she had been married to her love, and then she could
have mourned with his family and had a claim on their sympathy.
Martin came up and paid a short visit to his
Mother looks as usual. Berkley writes to me the company has
been so much reduced by
Mr Grimball returned from the City having purchased some candles $1.25 per lb. horrid looking yellow bad smelling things. - Brought me some Yeast from the Bakers and I have commenced baking Rolls for breakfast. -
Papa got so very much bothered about the corn fearing
he might be made to pay more than his share that I concluded
it best to pay up at once for all that I was to use
$1
Mr Irwin paid us a visit yesterday & told us Mrs
Kenedy's family were very anxious about Clem Legg. It seems
there is a case of derangement in her family, a daughter who
lives with them and is quite out of her right senses, it came
about unexpectedly, and there is a risk of this young