1862 August 3 Lynchburg, Va.

[from the diary of William M. Blackford, bank officer and former diplomat with five sons in the Confederate Army]

Sunday 3.  Very good sermon to a small
congregation--communion--Rested the
whole day until  6. Letter from Lewis
by the Richd mail.  He thinks Eugene
very sick & that he ought to be got-
ten out of the city where the air is
poisoned--this news determined his
mother to go in the morning--and
all hands set to work to get her ready
went to Charles & then to the Doctors

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