Friday, August 10, 2012

1862 August 11 near Cedar Mountain

[from the diary of Lt. John Tyler of Letcher's Artillery as entered by him at a later date]


 Next morning (Aug 11th) The wagon train was
ordered to move to the rear at 2 o’c so having
packed up everything, Maj. Ginter, Lt. Tanner, & self, preceded the
wagons so far as to get to Dr. Hill’s to breakfast before
the head of the train came in sight (The Dr. is
a brother of Genl. A. P. Hills.)  After breakfast continued
on & got to Orange C. H. in time for a late dinner at
a widow ladies, where after dinner I amused my com-
-panions by singing some songs, which a Piano in the
parlor insisted on accompanying me in, ending with

the very appropriate one, which commenced with
“There was a man went up & down to seek a dinner
through the town.”  The risibilities of the audience
were so affected by this, that our friend the widow
must have thought our melancholy tale to get a
dinner, was all sham.  However she seemed quite
to disarm any suspicion of this kind on our part,
by very cordially inviting us to stop there again
when in town.  After bidding the widow good bye we
returned to look for our wagons.; found them a mile
from the C. H. in park for the night.

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 6150

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