Thursday, August 23, 2012

1862 August 24 Chapel Hill, N.C.

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

Sunday, 24  Quite cloudy & threatning rain--But we all
went to Church in the morning--In the afternoon I read a
pretty little book called "The Angel over the right shoulder."
It is a tract calculated to do much good--If we could all re
-collect when we were going to say an unkind thing--or do
a sinful act--or think evil of others that the Angel on
the left shoulder was marking it down-& the Angel on
the right shoulder grieved about it--we would leave
undone what we ought not to do--Do what we ought to do--
That the good angels Register might be the longest--very
few ventured out to night--It look dark & threatning.

MSS 6960

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