Thursday, September 3, 2009

Wed [September] 3 [1862]

clear & milder -- It is l[earne]d. Gen. Kearney is killed.
Visited Helen Archer's School -- she is a fine singer --
Saw a man cut tobacco just now grown,
wrote little on Ser. Strolled on bank of brook
with Rev. Mr. Miller, & calls & thereby missed Bro.
Parsons who called with Mrs. P Mrs Woodford & Miss
Lyon -- heard Homer Austin &c discuss war,
draft &c - very funny. Jackson is reported
marchg. on Maryland

General Philip Kearney was killed at Chantilly (Ox Hill) at the end of the Second Manassas campaign, September 1, 1862.

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