1862 June 7 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]




Saturday- June 7th 1862
After Breakfast went with Bro to the Spotts
-wood to see “Genl” Duncan – also took him to
see young Whilden & Ivey at the Cary St  
Hospital – also to church hill & to the        
Seabrooke [--] Hospital where they have
700 wounded men.  Here particularly do the
ministering angels of the fairer sex, tend
& nurse the poor wounded soldiers – hundreds
of women, young & old can be seen by the bed
of strangers, dressing hideous wounds, bathing
the fevered temples & fanning the sufferers
to sleep & soothing their pains  - Such
christian charity, or patriotism, will make
these women of Va forces remembered by their
men & their friends at least. The women seem
to throw aside all false modesty & see nothing
but the sad duty they have undertaken before
them – Whilden & Ivey speaks in the warmest
terms of the ladies attending them – Came to Mrs
Taylors by 11 o’c - & spent the bal of day in

[The following lines are cross-written over the above page.]

the office – Went into town in the evening &
spent Brother at the the night at Mr H’s – Did not get in
in time to go with Brother to Mr Dunlops –
Saw Wm Logan today at Spottswood – he comes
over to join some Company or other –


 [George T. Whilden & James  M. Ivey, Co. A, Hampton Legion]

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

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