1862 July 8 Fredericksburg, Va.

[from the diary of Dr. Brodie Strachan Herndon]

8th  The girls keep shop for me.  All
the morning it is very cool down there.
Luc makes my [?] orders--little Mollys
talent does not lie that way so much
Nannie Corbin & Molly return from
Richmond.  They report their father
as being in the highest hopes for the
country.  We gained a glorious victory
before Richmond--but what effect it is
to have on terminating the war no one
can tell. The mind of the North
seems fully bent on conquest.

MSS 2563-b