[fromthe diary of Frank C. Fitzhugh, of Cutshaw's Battery]
December Monday 29
Trim for Coat 2.06
8.18
$ 10.21
Tuesday 30
Albert Gentry
To 1 pock Knife .87
Our Battery moved to
Bowling Green
Wednesday 31
Moved 2 ½ miles below
Bowling Green
[The end papers notes are as follows:]
Keemright
To 1 A. Tobacco .10
To find the
surface of
a sphere
Multiply the
diameter of it
by 3.1416
The following names are noted with small purchase amounts:]
Robert Mills
John Mills
W. Holladay
A.B. Roler
W.F. Davis
Gasper Thompson
[Transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]
[The intervening diary of Fitzhugh, if it exists, is missing. The diary picks up again in 1864]
MSS 4448
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