Friday, December 14, 2012

1862 December 15 Chapel Hill, N.C.

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

Monday  Mr Wright closed his bargain with Mr Barbee for the house
& left--I received a letter from James--He says Mrs Walters wd
leave on monday-That Wilmington is looking businesslike
again-But private families an get but little done for them
as ll the drays wagons & servant men are passed into Govern
-ment service to throw up entrenchments

MSS 6960


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