Monday, August 27, 2012

1862 August 28 Chapel Hill, N.C.

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

Thursday 28  [?] awake us very early this morning with
the news of Mr Mason's arrival--It was very unexpected
& therefore doubly pleasing to Eliza--He is much thinner
& looks older--But just as pleasant as ever--He says he
has been sent to Winchester where the Yankees have posses
sion by Stone Wall Jackson to find and secure important
business--He & 4 others dressed in Federal Clothes & went
in the very town & gained all the information they needed-
They were several times in great danger--& endured much fatigue
& many hardships, & had they been caught they would have been hung as spies--

MSS 6960

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