1862 September 23 "Eudora," near Leesburg, Va.

[from the diary of Lt. John Tyler of Letcher's Artillery]



(Sept 23rd)  Do not feel quite as well this morn-
-ing as did yesterday.  Miss Lizzie spent part of the
morning with me & showed me some coins she
collected in Europe & after examining  them in-
sisted on my accepting a few of them for my
collection at home.  Which I did fearing tho that
I might be depriving her of some interesting
associations connected with them which she as-
-ured me was not the case.  Finished “Cromwell”
and commenced “Liberty & Slavery” by Bledsoe.
Miss Lizzie rode this evening with Tom Miller
over to Wheatland horseback.  Heard while they
were gone the Yankees were in the neighbor-
hood.  When they returned Miss Lizzie brought me
some beautiful flowers from Genl. Wright’s, &
they persuaded Tom Miller to stay all night
fearing he might get caught by the Yankees if
he went home.  He with Miss Lizzie & Mrs Peyton
spent the evening with me.  Sat up a little
while this afternoon.

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

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