1862 October 1 Chapel Hill, N.C.

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

Wednesday 1st of October  The weather is still pleasant--Tho' warmer
than it has been for the last week--I love October
It is the Month I was born in-& has always with November been the
pleasantest to me season of the year--Last night for the 2d time
in my life I attended a baptist meeting--The sermon was excellent
the young mans delivery good--The prayers & singing fervent &
animating--But towards the last there was too great an effort
to excite--Too great a desire to make the anxious as he called
them come forward & show themselves--When we returned the moon
was shining as bright as day--Liz, Mrs Phillips, Eliza, & I went toge-
ther.  I received a letter yesterday from Joe--All were well & he was get-
ting along well with the  house & he is moving from Forest Hill to Colomo
kee--We have had no mail to day--Some accident on the R Road.

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