Letters and diary entries from the corresponding day in the Civil War posted from the holdings of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.
Friday, May 18, 2012
1862 May 19
[from the diary of Lt. John Tyler of the Letcher Artillery]
May 19th Married just one month to day.
Cloudy this morning & has rained a little.
A letter was brought over this morning
from Genl Andersons headQuarters, from
Jennie, which had been there from date,
three or four days Dated 14 th inst. Conduc-
-ted N. C. O. drill at 11 o’c. Had Battery
drill at 3 o’c. Rained this evening.
Wrote Jennie.
[transcription by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]
MSS 6150
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