1862 June 8 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]


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                        Sunday – June 8th 1862
Went over to Mrs Taylors after breakfast this
morning – Spent the day in the office – Capt H
& Dick going to town – Spent the morning reading
“Combe on the Constitution of Man” - & in writing  
a letter to Miss Phanny Roy in acknowledgement      
of the epistles from herself & Sisters, will have           .
to look up a chance for running the blockade            
of the yankee pickets  - don’t know when it may        
go through – Brother called by to see me on his way  
to see Mullie – spending a couple hours – He also
called on his return & I had Phanny saddled & rode into
town with him via Church Hill – stopped at Mr
Dunlops where Brother left his horse & came round to
Mr Harvey’s & spent the night with me there –
Rec’d letters tonight from Lillie & Julia the former 
at Waltenboro & the latter at Chaston
The family move to Columbia tomorrow.

– Sent Mullie some sugar & Coffee this Evening by Mr Enders

[Combe on the Constitution of Man:  This book was by George Comb. “It was considered a profound classic in the mid-19th century  The first edition that I find is Boston, 1833- reprinted frequently before the war.” RKK]


[Lillie and Julia: Sisters Josephine Maria (Lillie) and Julia Rowena  SRFD]


[Chaston: (Charleston)  Two years later the family moved from Charleston to Columbia to escape Sherman's March.  Sherman's army then burned them out of their Columbia house.  SRFD]


[Mullie:   brother Thomas Muldrop Logan]

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards;  content note by Robert K. Krick;  family notes by Sally Rice Forsyth Donnelly]

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