Letters and diary entries from the corresponding day in the Civil War posted from the holdings of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.
Friday, November 16, 2012
1862 November 17 Camp near Fairfax Seminary
[from the diary of the Rev. Eugene Butler, Chaplain of the 25th New Jersey]
Mon 17. Arranged about embalming body of Wescott &c.
McClellan order taking leave of Army was read last eveg. at
close of my Service Attended funeral services of poor Wescott
wrote his Mother & bro. 15th Conn also buried a man in the
little grave yd. by our camp this P.M. – Held py meetgs in Eveg
letter from Joe H – arranged Mess a/c
[transcribed by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]
MSS 12935
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