Cars for Suffield -- wrote letters read &c
met yesterday Mr Frisbie & Levi Hayden old School
mate at S -- now members of Windsor Ch -- glad
to see me & I them.
[General John] Pope writes that he had a great Battle Friday on
field of Old Bull Run & Whipd rebels loss 8000
killed & wounded on our side [Second battle of Manassas or Bull Run, Virginia -- Aug. 29-30, 1862] next day rebels
had advantage of us -- Suffield voted today
to raise some few over quota & pay $200 bounty to
each - ^all -- Mrs Southmayd told me that when
she asked Mr. Hales Son -- (16 yrs old -- but large & strong) why he
enlisted -- he ansd. "Why auntie D. ye spose I am going
to let the rebels lick us"! he told the recruiting officer
that he would be 18 in July -- & responded to his aunt when
called to task for it -- well so I shall if I live long eno --
Possibly Baker Hale of Co. K, 22nd Connecticut Infantry
Old Dea. [Jasper] Morgan a tall white haired man called to see me Sat. Eveg -- father of present Gov. of N. York --
Edwin Denison Morgan, 1811-1883, Governor of New York, 1859-1862, U. S. Senator, 1863-1869, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. President Lincoln appointed him a Major General of the Volunteers to give him military as well as civil authority in New York but he had no active field service. Noted for sending 223,000 men to the Union cause. Well known philanthropist after the war. [Ezra J. Warner. Generals in Blue]
the Suffield Company today chose Johnson Capt -- & Corbin
1st Lieut. Rain at night --
Captain George W. Johnson and Lieutenant David Potter Corbin of Co. G, 22nd Connecticut Infantry.
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