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July 1 The officers at the Asylum are directing
        their attention this morning towards fur-
        nishing the participents' cast-off clothing, etc, to
        the troops.
      2 The Chapel was sought, to be occupied by the
        ladies engaged in sewing for the troops. The
        Lecture-room at Church it being reported, having
        been appropriated to the accomodation of the
    soldiers- though since the [] application
    at 9, the latter point is now (at noon) contradicted.
      3 Last night very cool indeed, the dew being
    exceedingly heavy. A very brilliant comet first
    observed by most beholders- thus encouraging
    the superstitious of its prognosticating war.
                            In walking to the College
    leaving about dusk, I beheld at the
        wood beyond the cemetary, a number of
        horsemen annd of covered wagons, apparently
        working their way into the edge of the
        wood. I consequently learned that they
    were a cavalry troop from Mecklenburg,
    amounting to ninety members.
      4 Not a gun ushered in this day, as often
    commemorated with all due ceremony, in
    this section of country. There was however
    a celebration at Jamestown, and cannons were
        fired there at noon.
                   In the afternoon the encamp-
    ment of the Mecklenburg Cavalry presented
    quite a [] aspect. The white teals, which
    numbered some twenty, being contrasted with
    the [] lawn kept close cropped by the
    grazing cattle, which dotted the prospect- and
    having as a back-ground the deep ver-
    dence of the forest, interspersed with the
    [] of the chestnut. And then [] them
    [] gracefully the pale blue smoke from
    the camp fires, and far away being the
    sapphire sky, and the sinking sun in
    the west poured forth a flower of purple
    and gold, shedding a rich crimson glow
    over the attractive scene. Notwithstanding
    the beauty of this landscape, no [] has
    been recently the influx of the soldiery, that
    I was the only one from town to view what
    would a few weeks ago, have called forth the
    entire population.
                 Miss []. M. Galt with other ladies
    employed in working a standard for Capt
    Worth.
July 5 Another application to Miss []. M. Galt for beds,
    by the surgeons of the College. 27 beds & pillows given by
    her to York & Wall, the Mecklenburg Cavalry, and also
    another company of the same from Cumberland,
    left Williamsburg for York, at 4 o'clock p.m.
                     Dr M C Cole reports that there are no
    beds arrived as yet from Richmond of the York
    Hospital- there being much need of them in that
    establishment. He confirmed the deaths of Col []
    of the Louisiana Regiment; he was killed by the
    enemy, who were on a scouting party, he being seeking
    for a suitable shot wereupon to locate a battery. The
    Doctor observed that he could scarcely realize his death,
    seeing that he went forth this morning heartily, &
    in such unusually good spirits. One of our men was
    also wounded.
July 6 It is again becoming dusty, but there is a prospect
    of rain.
      7 Instead of there being preaching in the after-
    noon at the Episcopal Church, the ladies
    met in the Lecture-room to make beds
    for the College Hospital, the minister in-
    forming the congregation, that much was the
    supposed necessity- in firing a cannon
    on the 4th at Jamestown, I am informed that
    much was the accuracy of his gunnery, that
    B. Cannon split a level at which he aimed,
     and which was floating down the stream.
      8 Heard lemons sold in Richmond at 10
    cents, and oranges at 25 cents apiece.
                  Miss []. M. Galt giving several beds
    which she had made for the York Hospital
    to the College Hospital, arose very early and
    made others in their place.
                     [Biglers'] it is stated is shortly
    to be concerted into a hospital for the sick at
    York.
      9 The mischief in relation to military papers is
    represented as very rigid; thus I heard in-
    cidents showing that many persons were stopped
    at the entrenchments, and that papers were equally
    required in going to Richmond, and in returning
    home.
     10 Messengers from the College Hospital came for []
    and cloroform, it being necessary to amputate the arm
    of a Louisianian, who had accidentally shot himself.
July 11 Learn that for a day or two there
    has been a regiment from Louisiana,
    transferred from York to the entrenchments.
                  Last night three musketeers
    asked for supper, not being paid they
    said until a day or two later: And
    this morning three of their large []
    are standing in the lane, [] of the
    []'s [] at the Asylum, the []
    [] feeding there.
              Yesterday Dr. Williamson was
    searching for accounts of Bermuda, contem-
    plating going thither as a residence if the
    villainous Yankees perchance were successful
    in subjugating the South.
     12 Dr Anderson seemed to blame Virginia, for
    not making a Thermopylae of Alexendria and
    Hampton.
        I visited the entrenchments: the tents were
    some of them in the words; there was a large
    number of servants employed, troops were [],
    and altogether a scene of wild life and motion
    was presented- there being in addition a number
    of [] passing along, on foot, on horseback, in carriages
    etc. I could but think [] [] facility a sky might
    have made his approach and departure, unnoticed
    & unharmed. Hence great care must be requisite
    in such regard.
               I found a large number of soldiers in
    Mr Ewell's store making purchases, and the soda
    fountains at the two stores where they are kept, are
    twice exhausted during the day.
July 13 Report of another skirmish down []
    in which some [] were taken, our
    men as in general heretofore, hacing been victors.
           Both the lane west of the Asylum, &
    the site of the brickyard opposite to []'s
    and west of the Asylum premises, seem now occupied
    as feeding places for the mules- which pull
    the storage wagons.
     14 Dr McCabe, Chaplain to the army preached at
    church.
        It is said that female officers are to be
    appointed at the College Hospital.
     15 Col. Ewell sent me a receipt to the effect that he
    had received from me $83.34, for the volunteers
    in      brigade.
             A [] is now attached to the old
    buildings back of the Asylum where the provender
    of the army is stored, and in it are placed the
    mules, which by a riding path are supposed with
    water from the spring, which is taken in the
    enclosure.
     16 Someone was said to have been fired
    on last night by the sentinels at the entrenchments,
    thus calling out many soldiers, and exciting the
    fear of a night attack.
                 Saw a white wreath for a soldier who
    had died at Mr []'s, one dying at the
    College also of the sequence of measles, and being
    intered at the new cemetary on yesterday with
    military honors.
July 17 Two tents pitched on the north side of the
    Court-house Green- said to be for Gen. Magru-
    der's sentinels.
               Officers visiting the ladies after nine
    o'clock, one tying his []
                      A Georgia soldier talking to
    the ladies, wept, because he said, of the sentiments
    experienced by the Georgia troops from Virginians,
    some lady for example declaring, he asserted, that
    she was more apprehensive of them than of the
    enemy.
     18 From an early hour, vehicles, etc, hastening
    to the Grove, there being a rumour that the
    Enemy were about to land there.
                  Mr D. Lambert said at ten o'clock
    last night a steam-[] fired on at Jamestown,
    because not stopping immediately when ordered thus
    to do. He was very strongly impressed with the
    strength of the fortifications there. A splendid re-
    giment of North Carolinians, he stated, left Richmond
    on yesterday- Gen. Lee accompanying the same
    number of troops on some recent expedition, he added
    that the higher officers were very strict in keeping their
    proceedings entirely secret. At Jamestown he heard de-
    lightful singing from a glee club; and there was also
    a laud of [] formed by the soldiery.
     19 Gen. Magruder wrote to ask if I could admit
    his Louisianians into the Asylum, it being too
    far to carry them to their homes.
     20 So much water has been taken from one pump
    to water the army mules, that it is exhausted not-
    withstanding heavy rains.
July 20 Another skirmish reported below on yesterday,
    in which a major & two other officers of the
    enemy were captured.
                  Two Louisianian soldiers
    were admitted into the Asylum, being considered
    insane.
     21 Dr Williamson accompanied an engineer/Dr [],
    into James City, to point out the localities, []
    to laying a telegraph from Richmond down
    this Peninsula.
     22 Weather drizzly & cool, then of noon being down
    to 71[degrees]. There has been very little hot weather during
    the month. Heavy rain all the afternoon, & then
    by night to 67[degrees]; we had a fire in the dining-room.
               [] the cannon fired in the
    neighborhood, to celebrate the victorious engagement
    of Bull Run, were tokens of the encounter, numbers
    of the soldiery, rich & [] inched in haste down
    the entrenchments.
               I received a letter from Dr Beylef
    of Louisville. He said that Kentucky had been
    deceived into a [] position, and [] things he
    thought were rapidly [] a position at which
    he would have to act positively on way or the
    other- that the [] before ([]) [] the Attorney
    General  addressed a called [] meeting, []
    that Kentucky should immediately take up arms
    in [] of the wicked administration and against
    her Southern sisters.
     23 The military authorities sent a [] offering rations
    for the two crazy Louisiana soldiers, entering the
    Asylum on the 20th.
                 Fire again this evening;  [] month; then at 67[degrees]
July 23 Two companies from each regiment, making
    collectively 700 men ordered away, said to
    be down to []'s.
                The high poles for the telegraph
    down town.
     24 Mr Young brought a petition for furnishing choice
    articles or at least[] ones for the convalscent
    etc, at the College Hospital, Dr [] inform-
    ing him that he had opened in this manner two dol-
    lars a day out of his own pocket, & Dr Miller some
    treaty. Saying that I preferred a paper of the
    kind should have signatures [] to my own,
    to serv as a guide, but much not being the care, as
    in other instances I allowed the [] of the petition
    to name the sum which I should present- and
    he designating 10, I gave 15 dollars, and added
    that in the event of a deficiency, I would make
    up the [] hundred myself- this being the
    amount desired.
             Dr Williamson said that the telegraph would
    be completed in ten or twelve days; Mrs Christian men-
    tioned that her son was employed in putting it up.
                Mr William G. Young stated very positively
    on yesterday, that there were 30,000 troops at fortress [].
     25 There have been tents (16) in the college yard for a week.
     26 From a computation, there must have been about
    3500 mules & horses taken from the enemy
    at Bull Run- counting the wagons and
    the batteries.
     27 I paid half of the 25 dollars, [] in
    the fruit of war, to support the families of
    volunteers.
July 28 In his sermon devoted to the late victory,
    per [], rebuked profane swearing- as the
    most prominent sin in the military.
     29 General Magruder engaged as his offices
    Mr Waller's outhouses.
                     Dr Williamson mentioned again having
    spo