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Aug. 5-11
At church and hear Mr. Meade....Get home Monday evening. Find Kate Powell staying with Ellen. She is a nice ladylike little girl. Ma is very poorly again this week. She has the doctor to see her once. John Mac is up again. Thursday John, Sue, Mary Lewis, Bully and Ann go down to The Creek to dine. They conclude to remain all night. The next day John, Mary Lewis and Ann return and left Sue and Bully. John and the nurse Ellie join her Saturday. Sue and Bully will make a little stay in that neighborhood. John was enroute for Richmond. A letter from brother Peter. He and Pinkie are really married. Have been on a bridal tour to the Prairieville [Pike County, Missouri,] neighborhood. Kate Powell was with us Saturday when her mother sent for her as her little baby brother has died. Such dry weather. Call on Monday to see my old friend Kate Whitehead. She has just come up form Suffolk. [She] is looking thin and badly. Says her health is indifferent. The Yankees have behaved shamefully towards her. It is shocking to hear of the indignities she has been obliged to submit to. Also saw Cousin Mary Lewis. She has been a fellow sufferer with Kate from Yankee insults, roguery, etc. How long, oh , Lord, how long wilt Thou thus allow our enemy to trample us in the dust.? Of thy mercy hasten the time of their punishment.
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