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Mon July 4 pressed Jack Saul Anderson / Petersburg
This morning the Canon was heard in the Town of Columbia
celebrating the day I went to Town A greate many Negroes
men Women & Children with there flags & flag poles. A dinner
was prepared for Many at Whites Spring but - the black
ladies was marched to the Table the Soldiers pitched in &
devoured it & so the blacks was quite unlucky (they got none)

In the evening the Soldiers was sent all over Town &
pressed & captured all the able bodied Negroes Men that could
be gathered, several hundred, to go some where to work. I
succeeded in gitting Saul Jack & Anderson released & took
them home None of the rest of our boys was caught tho the
most of them was there and all the Women except Old Suckey
& Puss was there & all got home safe but was verry hungry &
tyered

Col Funkhouser says that Petersburg was taken this
morning & he was willing to gamble on it.

1864 July Tu 5. W J Porter
I stayed at home all day Heard no particular news.
Heard the blacks that was pressed on Monday the 4th was
taken off to work on Fortifications in Georgia (I got a letter
from W J Porter dated 8th June

Wed 6 Mitchel & Hamon / rain / plowing / Garden / Self
Haom & W. Mitchel was here for dinner It rained a
heavy shower at One oclock The boys finished plowing in the
field next the glade & commenced plowing in the N. W. field
to day We tryed to Wead out the garden (I stayed at home to