[from the diary of the Rev. Francis E. Butler, future chaplain of the 25th New Jersy]

Wed 3.  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. Millie, & 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.

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

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