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Went in company with bro[ther] Williams to the S[unday] S[chool] at Dr. Sunderland’s. … A good strait forward sermon made a beautiful allusion to death of Adm. Foot.
P.M. Went to Mt. Pleasant hospital … went thro’ the wards. Visited the Contraband Camp. … Went around among the col[ore]d folks. They seemed happy. Saw a novel funeral, singing, pray, shaking hands, &[c]. …
Diary of Jonathan Edwards Adams [Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection]
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Wrote home, pack’d box &c., started for F[airfax] S[tation]. Went with Mr. Alexander of PomphretCon[n]. to F[airfax] C[ourthouse] to distribute some boxes for his people. How grateful the soldiers are! Distributed many books to Cavalry.
Eve[ning]. Sick men came in from hospitals. Fed & cared for some 213 men. Was up all night. Got the men off at 4 a.m.
All day the sick came in. We fed & cheer’d & helped. Had many very good conversations, found the men well disposed & serious. At 4 p.m. signs of a move. At six all pack’d. A grand march forward. We came to head quarters. Station was entered by Rebs. During night. … Call’d at Armory Hosp[ital] to see Capt. Mott. His bro[ther] & sister came in answer to telegraph. He knew me, smiled, thank’d me again & said he was a sinner & needed X[i.e., Christ].
Diary of Jonathan Edwards Adams [Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection]
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Found Capt. [J. M.] Mott to be a graduate of Mich[igan] Univer[sity], had traveled in Europe. His wound is probably mortal. Conversed with him Wrote his father. Telegraphed for his sister. …
Diary of Jonathan Edwards Adams [Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection]
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F[air]fax Station is only a place to land supplies. The Court House is a small place, but the field is full of camps. The soldiers were all eager for reading. … The old c[ourt] house is nothing but a shell, a miserable dirty store room. The church is all stript inside & has been [used] for a stable. … Just out in the woods was where Gen. Kearney was killed. Heard heavy firing. Said to be fighting at Snicker’s Gap.
Diary of Jonathan Edwards Adams [Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection]
