1862 June 11 Richmond, Va.

[from the diary of Daniel D. Logan, younger brother of General Thomas M. Logan, formerly a Sgt, Co. B, 1st Special Battalion (Rightor's), now with the Hampton Legion]




               
                        Wednesday – June 11th 1862
Rose this morning at five o’clock & went
round to Harveys, taking breakfast with
him after which went to the office –
spending the day & night there –
Everything is very quiet today – a Ga picket
caught a Lieut Col Carny [?] of a Penn regt last
Evening – he reports their loss of 800 Killed &
abt four thousand wounded in the last battles –
twenty-two three hundred will cover our loss.  In a
most touching sight today Capt H & I were out & met a
returned soldier with two ladies   one a married woman
with a baby & the other a pretty young girl – they asked
for the 14th NoCa regt & I informed the young lady that
she could not go so far as the lines on ac mud &c – she
burst into tears at my discouraging statements – The poor
girl had come all the way from NoCa to see her brother & she
& her friend had started to walk six miles through the mu
mud to see him! Went out to the Legion & brought Mullie in with
me to spend tomorrow.  Went to Harveys, taking supper
at Mrs Taylors


[transcription by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

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