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lOth I was at work on fence &c again to day
llth At work on fence &c
12th Sunday this has been a pleasant day I was at home untill
Dinner and walked down to Sam Coopers in the evening
13th Went to Henderson to day in company with Mary A Cooper and
Adelia the day was pleasant and the roads were as dusty as Summer
allthough evrything wears a lively aspect in the City as Business seems
to be brisk but nevertheless a general gloom pervades the whole community
the Merchant smiles pleasantly as he displays his wares yet there is care
on his brow and when you talk with him he is anything but hopefull Union
. men as well as Southern Rights Men are becoming despondent as this war
seems no nearer an end than it did one year ago and the conscription
which is soon to be enforced will only agravate the allread  distressing
state of things I saw for the first time a guard of soldiers arround a
store (R M Allins) he was arrested by the Military authorities for sell-
ing goods to Persons who designed carrying them south the Court house was
well Peopled with Prisnners who have been arrested and confined there for
various offences against the Millitary Law
lhth this has been a wet day and the rain was badly needed for
tobacco beds &c
l5th I was at work on plank fence again to day the weather is fine
for farming
16th Helped Thos Smith roll logs to day this has been the warmest
day of the season
17th I finished my Plank fenceko day and got my woods lot nearly
fenced all arround
18th At work on gates &c to day another warm day
19th Sunday last night the rain Poured down as it were in torrents
and it is still raining this morning the rain stoped at eight o*clock
this morning and the sun came out Brightly all nature once more is Putting
on its green robes the birds are warbling their sweet songs and evrything
° seems full of life the hum of insects resounds through the air and the
fropgs render the streams vocal with their never ceasing songs
I was at church this morning but there was no preaching I was
over at Uncle Stephen Martins this evening with Adelia and Mother and spent
the evening Brother Fallan held a small prayer meeting and it waswith
feelings I have seldom felt before for as I knelt down in that house under
so many and varied circumstances memory went back in spite of the pleading
of the minister for the sick and the afflicted to other days and other
scenes in years that are forever past and gone I could but feel sad oer
the many changes time has wrought changes perhaps for the best which have
left an impress on memorys sacred page which will last during life
it was indeed a change to get from the wild jesting world to a
religious meeting though it wasbut a family gathering