Scope and Contents
The diary mentions the following topics: the loan of a sharps rifle from George W. Randolph, supposedly owned before by John Brown and presented to the 1st [Virginia?] Regiment at Harper’s Ferry; a four mile drive on the Petersburg Road to “Strawberry Hill” owned by Robert Edmond; Judge and Mrs. Robertson leaving for “Mount Athos” their place in the country near Lynchburg, Virginia; double guard on “the mills” [Gallego Mills?]; the arrival of 1,000 men from Tennessee who went to the old...
Dates:
1861 May-October