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/ Sick Soldier / Mary /
verry bad of & has been ever since he came I think no worse -
Mary had a boy child this morning

Mon 5th / Margaret / Corn / Genl J C Brown / Soldiers /
This morning is quite cool with frost We built a fire
to kill some hogs but the wind changed to the South and we
stopt & did not kill. In the evening it turned quite warm
Margaret took Saul & went to Town in the evening She braught
back but little news We halled a load of Corn gathered in
the fields Genl J. C. Brown wounded in the leg & at Looneys.
A greate many wounded Soldiers in Town & they have little to
go on Complaining of there fair Many Soldiers passing all
through the Country some wounded & some not, some fears the
Fedrels are making there way back to Columbia & preperations
are making to meet them & defend the fort.

[sideways left margin Our Mills are all pressed ever since the
25 Novr. Cant get meal one half our time]

Tues 6 / Harvel Horse / foundered / Genl Brown / W. H. Pillow died / prisoners /
The weather has much moderated clear & calm We are
trying to put up some fence in some places to keep the stock
from going away & hunting through the fields to find Corn. A
Mr Harvel & brother to the Mr Harvel a Soldier that left a
foundered Gray horse here a week ago called & payed Anderson
for taking care of him $10.00 in Confed Money he took the horse
he said to his brother There was a wounded man Mayes living
in Lawrence with him. I went to Majr Looneys & saw Genl Brown
there wounded I went from there to Town W. H. Pillow died
last night A M Harrison was released from arest. They are
fighting all round Nashville this morning there are 1700 Fedrels