Friday, January 30, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: October 8, 1861

At church yesterday; the services interesting; the Communion administered. Rev. Dr. A. delivered an address, perhaps a little too political for the occasion.

The news from Western Virginia not confirmed. Another rumour of a fight on Cheat Mountain, in which General Jackson, with some regiments of Georgians, repulsed the Federal General Reynolds.

SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War, p. 67-8

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