Dec. 3, 1862\u2014Start to Raleigh, about ninety miles, taking wife, three children and a nurse. Rain all day. Spend night with Bro. Sykes.<\/p>\n
Dec. 4\u2014Pass Fayetteville. Spend night with J. H. Hawley, one of the best men I ever knew.<\/p>\n
Dec. 5\u2014Rain all day. Spend night with Allen Betts, my brother.<\/p>\n
Dec. 6\u2014Clear and cold. Ride to Alvin Betts, my brother.<\/p>\n
Dec. 7\u2014Hear Bishop Early preach in Raleigh.<\/p>\n
Dec. 8\u2014Day in Conference. A letter from Uncle Foster Utley, Chapel Hill, leads me to send my family to that place.<\/p>\n
Dec. 9\u2014Send family on cars to Chapel Hill, while I turn my face towards Bladen alone. After four days of lonely riding I reach my wife’s boarding place and pack books and clothes, and take Steamer Hurt for Fayetteville. Pay Jo. Russ ten dollars to take my carriage to Fayetteville.<\/p>\n
Dec. 13\u2014Meet James Marley Smith, and go with him to his farm.<\/p>\n
Sunday, Dec. 14\u2014Hear Bro. J. D. Buie preach at Fayetteville. Night at hotel. I have had fever for last three days.<\/p>\n
Dec. 16\u2014Take cars to Egypt. Find no horse there for me. Walk about ten miles, and ride on a mule-cart about the same distance and reach Pittsboro. Sup with John Womach. He sends me to Chapel Hill, eighteen miles, on a mule-cart Get there at 7 a. m.<\/p>\n
Dec. 17\u2014Chill at night.<\/p>\n
Dec. 18\u2014Chill in the afternoon. In bed till 22d.<\/p>\n
Sunday, Dec. 28\u2014Preach in M. E. Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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