1862 August 17 Chapel Hill, N.C.

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

Sunday 17th  It is still so cool that we are glad to get out of
the air & have the doors & windows closed--I have been suf
fering with tooth ache all night--Katy brought me a letter from
Mr Jewett this morning on business--He says his infant has
at last received a name--He had it baptized Sidney Johnson
His Son Stephen is really in the army--He had walked 10 miles
to Malverh Nill to meet the Enemy-& his feet were all blis
-tered--He begs his father to come & see him, & bring him
something to eat.  Mr Jewett mentioned having a fever him
-self-& that Amoret had been sick--Our town was quite
quiet--Burnsides I see has been sent to attack Stone
Wall Jackson==& Mcclennan is reinforcing him.  Our
people are calling loudly on the next sitting of Congress to have
a new conscript law--Taking young men of 16 & men
35 to 50--I dread its being put into effect as it will take Richd who ought
not to go--But I hope the War will be over before they have to resort to
that

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