Friday, 16th–I, with Tom Toly, mowed grass all day. Swinging the scythe was hard work for me and I did not cut as wide a swath as Tom did. Father went to Tipton in the afternoon and upon his return told us the war news. I am thinking some of enlisting and going to war.

16th-–I am still at Barnum’s, and having transferred my sick to the charge of Mr. S., I have a little more time to think, and to journalize my thoughts. I have looked around a little to-day, and my observations have almost made me wish I had no country. When every right which freemen hold dear [...]

I remained in Baltimore a few days, and had an opportunity of knowing the feelings of some of the leading men in the place. It may be described in one word–intense hatred of New England and black republicans, which has been increased to mania by the stringent measures of the military dictator of the American [...]

London, August 16, 1861 We have now gone through three stages of this great political disease. The first was the cold fit, when it seemed as if nothing would start the country. The second was the hot one, when it seemed almost in the highest continual delirium. The third is the process of waking to [...]

August 16.–Colonel Hecker, with his regiment, surprised a body of rebels-, four hundred strong, near Fredericktown, Mo., early this morning. He captured all their camp equipage, and his men ate the breakfast which had just been prepared by the rebels. Twelve prisoners were also taken.–General Prentiss took command of all the forces at Ironton, Mo.–N. [...]

August 16, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 President Lincoln declared by proclamation the States of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas in insurrection, and ordered all commercial intercourse between the North and seceded States to cease. Rebel camp at Fredericktown, Md., attacked, and 12 of the enemy taken prisoners. Several [...]

August 15. Thursday.–A bright, lovely day and the prettiest evening of the month. The bright moonlight exhibits the landscape enough to show its loveliness and the lights and shadows. The hills and woods are very picturesque. It makes me long for wife and boys and friends behind. How Lute would enjoy roaming with me through [...]

Thursday, August 15.—During the past night made the Great Constable, a small island off the coast some 40 miles to the eastward of Cayenne. Anchored at midnight in 141 fathoms water, the island bearing west, distant about 6 miles. At daylight this morning, after waiting for the passage of a rain squall, we got underway [...]

August 15th.–Mrs. Randolph came. With her were the Freelands, Rose and Maria. The men rave over Mrs. Randolph’s beauty; called her a magnificent specimen of the finest type of dark-eyed, rich, and glowing Southern woman-kind. Clear brunette she is, with the reddest lips, the whitest teeth, and glorious eyes; there is no other word for [...]

Thursday, August 15.—Witnessed the drumming out of a soldier of the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania for stealing from his comrades.

AUGUST 15th.—No clew yet to the spies in office who furnish the Northern press with information. The matter will pass uninvestigated. Such is our indifference to everything but desperate fighting. The enemy will make good use of this species of information.

THURSDAY 15 The 3rd Regt of Regulars are cleaning up the Camp on F[ranklin] Square, “Camp Anderson,” for occupation. I was in the Pat office awhile today but staid at Home most of the day. The weather is quite cool and a fire in the dining room is comfortable in the morning. Doct Barnes was [...]

Thursday, 15th–We capped our grain stacks against rain and windstorms, and then commenced mowing wild grass for hay. This is my birthday; am nineteen years old.

15th.–I wish to record, what I have omitted, an acknowledgment to many of the people of Baltimore during our stay here, for such kindness as I never expected to meet with amongst strangers. On the morning of our arrival, at the depot, in this city, I was detained some time in looking after the sick [...]

August 15.–At Arlington, Va., sixty noncommissioned officers and privates of the Second Maine Regiment of Volunteers, having formally and positively, in the presence of the regiment, refused to do any further duty whatever, alleging that they were not legally in the service of the United States, were, with the approval of the General-in-Chief, transferred, in [...]

August 15, 1861 General George McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac. The Department of Kentucky and the Department of the Cumberland are combined under General Robert Anderson. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 President Davis ordered all Northern men to leave the Confederacy within 40 days. A Chronological History [...]

Southern Confederacy [Atlanta, Ga], August 14, 1861, p. 1, c. 1 From the Petersburg Express. Charles H. Foster–To the Public. Murfreesboro’, N. C., Messrs. Editors: As a woman true to the South whose heart beats in unison with those of our patriotic sons now struggling for our altars and our firesides, and as one whose [...]

August 14. Wednesday.–The weather has changed to cool, and although the sky is still clouded I hope this long rain is now over. Our prisoners turn out to be Hezekiah and Granville Bennett, cousins of the notorious James and William Bennett, aged forty-nine and twenty-two, father and son, and Moss and George W. Brothers, aged [...]

Wednesday, August 14.—Morning beautiful, with fleecy trade clouds, promising a fine breeze, but the breeze never came; the clouds passed on sluggishly and changed their forms and positions, but no wind. A livelong, calm day, with nothing but cat’s paws and currents, the latter setting about W. N. W. We have lessened our soundings somewhat, [...]

August 14th.–Last night there was a crowd of men to see us and they were so markedly critical. I made a futile effort to record their sayings, but sleep and heat overcame me. To-day I can not remember a word. One of Mr. Mason’s stories relates to our sources of trustworthy information. A man of [...]

Wednesday, August 14.—The Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania, commanded by Col. Geary, occupied the town1. We established our camp about five o’clock, P. M., close to that of the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers. Berlin, Virginia, now West Virginia

AUGUST 14th.—Zollicoffer has been appointed a brigadier-general; and although not a military man by education, I think he will make a good officer.

“Boston rockers” were an untold comfort to the men able to sit up. The first of the many sent to us were from Daniel Gilman’s father and placed as follows:— Alexandria Hospital, Aug. 14, 1861. My dear Miss Woolsey: The eight chairs are very thankfully received and shall be disposed of precisely as you proposed. [...]

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1861. Got up this morning and went to market. Doct Barnes and Lieut Gould to Breakfast. Doct Vanslyck to dinner. The “27th” left this morning for V.A. I was at the Pat office awhile & on the Ave. Witnessed this evening the quelling of a mutiny among the 79th Regt. A strong [...]