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Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell, diary
September 7, 1862

“Many Winchester boys here. Number of soldiers coming and going all day. General T. J. Jackson attended church at night with Captain Douglas---sat in William Bantz’s pew, the second back of ours. Dr. Zacharias prayed for the President of the...

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Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell, diary
September 6, 1862

“At 10 0’clock A.M. two Confederate cavalrymen dashed up to the City Hotel, the first gray coats we have ever seen---Brad Johnson followed. The army coming in all day. Captain H. Kyd Douglas called this evening, also Archi Drish, Mr....

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Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell, diary
September 5, 1862

“Rumors of the approach of the Confederate army. Federals burning their stores and “skedadlin.” We staid on the roof of the house until after midnight. Saw the sick from the Barrack Hospital straggling with bandaged heads etc towards Pennsylvania. Was...

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Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell, diary
May 8, 1861

“Brad Johnson’s company left tonight for Virginia.”

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Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell, diary
October 29, 1862

“Visited General or Barracks Hospital with Captain Lilly”

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Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell, diary
May 2, 1861

“Attended session of state legislature at Kemp Hall.”

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Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell, diary
July 22, 1861

“Fred returned from Virginia today.... He heard the cannon from the battle of Bull Run.... They forded the Potomac at Noland’s Ferry and both horses swam and they were obliged to get on the seat as the buggy floated. A...

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Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell, diary
November 27, 1862

“My beloved husband is absent and I know not where he is.”

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Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell, diary
July 15, 1861

“William Derr and a New Yorker were detained at Sandy Hook, [mistaken] for Mr. Heard and Fred---quite a mistake.”

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Catherine Susannah Thomas Markell, diary
November 24, 1862

“Visited Lutheran Church Hospital... Visited cemetery, placed flowers on the graves of our friends of CSA who are buried there.”

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