Another Sunday spent at home
how uncivilized it is to stay from church
Sunday after Sunday. War is a momentous
leveller. we are all poor alike now--
no horses, no driver, & those that have them
are afraid to use them, as they may be
taken from us in the road or at church
Read[?] as much as usual-----
Pa returned from the depot with the
news that a party of sixty men had
torn up the tracks captured & burnt
the cars taken eight Yankee
gone on to Smithfield surprised & taken
27 men & horses amongst them the Lieut
Capt brought here Monday--I can but
rejoice at it-though Pa thinks they will
visit vengeance on the people around-
- there was a large no of their cavalry
scouring the country to day, but our
men are far enough away, they
took up one man for saying he knew
who they were
[as transcribed in 1972 by her granddaughter Anne Madison Wright Baylor]
MSS 15406
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