1862 July 9 Fredericksburg, Va.

[from the diary of Dr. Brodie Strachan Herndon]
9 My dear Luc's birth day!  We
are not insensible to all god's
goodness.  133d Psalm.  We pray
for our absent ones in daily morning prayers
Mother recd a short letter from Jim
He & Brook up to their eyes in
work.  I sent word to mother
by Nannie Carter that he had chosen
his own sweetheart--he didn't mean
to wait for her to do it.

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