1862 May 16 Chapel Hill, N.C.

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

Friday  not raining but threatning to do so--This is a pub-
lick prayer day--Set apart by our President & I hope
the weather will allow us to attend Church--Went to Church
& heard one of the finest sermons I ever heard before from out
excellent Bishop--It rained too hard for me to attend to night
but most of our ladies went, & heard Mr Patterson.  A
Greek--very pious & very talented--& very to us excentric--
In the morning Mr Cheshire read the prayers--& a stranger the
lessons for the Bishop.

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