1862 April 27 Chapel Hill, N.C.

[from the diary of Eliza Oswald Hill, refugee from Wilmington, N.C.]

Sunday--It is still cloudy & gloomy looking--Still we all hope
to get to church--as we live too near to stay at home unless
it rains very hard--At breakfast table Mrs Guthrie told
us the news last night was--that New Orleans had been taken
& Buell was not dead--I hope sincerely it may not be true,
for if so --we are in a dreadful strait.

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