1862 March 23 Lynchburg, Va.

[from the diary of William M. Blackford, of Lynchburg, Va., former diplomat, newspaper editor and bank officer, with 5 sons in the Confederate Army]

Sunday23 Cloudy, cool & damp--threatening
snow--Much indisposed--attended church
which was not warm and my cold was aggra-
vated--No news from any quarter--Read a
good deal in the afternoon--but my eyes
are becoming so irritable that I fear I shall
soon have to quit using them, at least in
reading--and what a deprivation it would
be. Mr Kincle's sermon appropriate to the times
though not one of his able discourses.


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