[from the diary of Matthella Page Harrison as transcribed at a later date]
Saturday, August 16
Cousin Evelyn and Rebecca breakfasted here this morning. Immediately after break-
fast we went to reading a "News Sheet" giving an account of the Cedar Mountain battle.
They must have had had fearful losses. All of the officers were killed in some of the
regiments. McClellan speaks of his hospitals as being alarmingly full and he can
do nothing without reinforcements. There is a secret society formed in the southern
part of Indiana and Illinois composed of fifteen thousand, ready at any moment to
join with us. Went to Clay Hill in the evening.
MSS 9759
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