1862 June 22 Chapel Hill, N.C.

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

Sunday 21st  [sic]  We have all been to church and heard a fine sermon.
But I  have felt dull to day--Hearing or at least reading in the
dispatch of this morning that Burnsides has sent from Norfolk
& Suffolk 6000 troops to take Welden- & they are now only
30 miles from that place--at Franklin Depot--From the same
paper I learn that the Yankees have been shelling the 18th
Mississippi Regiment--& have done very little, but some da
-mage--The girls went alone to church--.

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