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Nov. 24-30
At church in the morning and hear Mr Meade. A regular stir up (the Sunday after Stir Up Sunday) about the indifference shown to attending church; such a slight excuse serves so often to keep one from church. He was right. After church Mary Lewis and I go to Dr. Leitchs to stay until Monday. After dinner little Sis joins us and we have a nice time together. Go to church after supper and hear Mr. Nelson....I'm very poorly after I return. Dr. Leitch sends me up a composing draught which quiets me for the night and am better by the morning. Walk home Monday to dinner and get to work. Little Sis does not return with me; she goes back to sister Betty's but promises to come to me again next week if all is well. Get along nicely with my work. Make a dress for Mammy Nelly and work up all the materials for the calico quilt. A letter from Jabe. His Regiment is now about two miles from Leesburg and he wants to come to us for Xmas and then take Sally back with him; is anxious for me to go too but the old folks won't hear of it so I don't expect to see camp this winter. [He] reports General Beauregard is sick. Consoles with me on the death of my pet Peck. He thinks I ought to find much comfort in knowing he Peck died in harness. A martyr to the rat cause, he died battling bravely in a cause to which he had been early dedicated. Wrote Sue a long letter. A letter from brother Jim. Good news! Crocket is better though not yet out of danger and no new cases of measles and as now two weeks have passed since the first, hope the rest have escaped it. Brother Jim thinks of coming up Monday if the invalids continue better and writes for me to met him at Rugby Monday night as he wants to see something of me and he can only call by on his way home. I must try and get there from Church on Sunday ....Mary Lewis and I read a good deal in "Motley." Work on the quilts. Expect to get out of work this winter; not finish the quilts but work up the materials I have on hand. The times are rather gloomy. Yankees getting all around us; our commissioners, Mason and Slidell, prisoners in Fort Monroe. It is so doubtful if England notices the insult offered by boarding her vessel and taking off the Southern Commissioners. For a similar offense, she fought the War of 1812 but as policy not regard for the right governs The Court of St. James it is doubtful whether she resents this insult or not.
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