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are very much engaged, nursing them.
I was very sorry yesterday to find R. S. painfully wounded.
October 13th, 1864.
The day has passed as usual-six hours in the Commissary Department, and the remainder occupied in various ways.
Rumours of fighting below
Richmond; we hear the cannon, but it is said to be merely a skirmish.
October 20th, 1864.
Nothing new in the field.
Armies quiet; perhaps preparing for dreadful work.
I got a note last night from J. P., written with a pencil.
He and other prisoners are working ten hours a day on “
Dutch Gap Canal.”
They work under the fire of our own batteries.
Poor fellow!
my heart yearns over him.
October 26th, 1864.
The armies around
Richmond continue quiet.
General Early's second misfortune was very depressing to us all. We are now recovering from it. I trust that God will turn it all to our good.
A striking and admirable address from him to his soldiers was in the morning papers.
Oh, I trust they will retrieve their fortunes hereafter.
October 28th, 1864.
Very much interested lately in the hospitals; not only in our own, “the
Robertson hospital,” but in
Mr. --‘s, “the officers' hospital.”
He has just told me of a case which has interested me deeply.
An officer from the far
South was brought in mortally wounded.
He had lost both legs in a fight below
Petersburg.
The poor fellow suffered excessively; could not be still a moment; and was evidently near his end. His brother, who was with him, exhibited the bitterest grief, watching and waiting on him with silent tenderness and flowing tears.
Mr. was glad to find that he was not unprepared to die. He had been a professor of religion for some years, and told him that he was suffering too much to think on that or any other subject, but he constantly tried
