May 7, 1865. Sunday evening. Had company every day last week, paroled soldiers returning to their homes. Last night a Mr. and Mrs. Adams, refugees from Alberta, who have been spending the time in Eatonton, called to stay all night. I felt as though I could not take them in. I had purposely kept in [...]
Sunday, 7th—Started at the usual time and marched eighteen miles today. We bivouacked in some old camps which our men had built during the siege of Petersburg, within two miles of town. I rode all the way today with the wagon train. A part of the Fifteenth Corps came in ahead of the Seventeenth Corps, [...]
Petersburg, Va., May 7, 1865. Twenty miles to-day, and the longest kind of miles. Had some bad road in the morning. We struck the Weldon railroad two or three miles below Ream’s Station, where the 6th Corps was whipped last June, and came right up to the city. Saw hardly any signs of fighting the [...]
May 7th, 1865.—Aunt Margaret has been busily making her preparations for going home and yesterday she received notice that General Fish would evacuate her premises on the 20th of May. So she is leaving us tomorrow. Most of the servants she brought with her are going back in the same wagons they came in but [...]
May 7.—Anna and I wore our new poke bonnets to church this morning and thought we looked quite “ scrumptious,” but Grandmother said after we got home, if she had realized how unbecoming they were to us and to the house of the Lord, she could not have countenanced them enough to have sat in [...]