1862 October 5 Chapel Hill, N.C.]

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

Sunday 5th  a lovely day--But I was not well enough to attend church.
I awoke with a sick stomach & bad head ache& did not recover from
it all day--Mr Hilliard preached & he had communion--quite
a panic here this morning-From a negro man of Mr Ashe's dying
with yellow fever--He was sent up by his master from Wilmington
sic--He walked about several days, & then took to his bed & died---
No one believed at first he had the fever--tho no one liked his being
sent sick up here--No cases since but the students are leaving

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