Friday, June 1, 2012

862 June 2 Chapel Hill, N.C.


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

Monday 2d day of Commencement--6 speakers--& amongst them
Mr Parker quite a clever young man--Each girl in the house
mad a bouquet for him--I did not attend having a bad toothache
& being very anxious & worried in mind about Thomas--Not being
able to hear from him or of him since the battle at Richmond. We have
great cause for gratitude & rejoicing in the victory on our side
& that instead of Richmond being taken by the Federals, God has permit-
ted our forces to drive them back. May a kind Providence still favor
favour us & make us victorious at every point, & may our
people show forth their gratitude & praise by giving themselves
& all they have to the Lord--Not puffed up by victory--But hum
-bled under a true sense of their undeservedness & unworthyness
of such favours.  The house has been full of gentlemen all day. I think
7 have been in at different times & all very chatty & lively. I can
sit in my room & hear them enjoying themselves in the parlour--
Eliza's escort was Mr Shepherd--Mollie's Mr Bunting--Susie's Mr
Fred Fether--They had scarcely reached the Chapel before it commenced
thundering & lightning--& every moment it became severer & severer
but held up in time for them to get home.  Mr. Parker was the
best speaker.  The ladies say he done well.

MSS 6960

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