Wednesday June 12

The school children with their teacher Miss Greiger are having a picnic on the hillside under a hickory tree.  Kate, Annie, and Marion are there.  Ephe came down on the cars, but returned tonight.  He is on patrol to watch the safety of Marietta.  Threats to burn towns in Ohio have been made, Marietta among others, hence the patrol.  Disastrous affairs at Great Bethel near Fortress Monroe last Monday.  Our troops under Gen. Pierce (?) mistake and fire upon each other.  Lieut. Grellet of the Artillery, a brave and efficient officer, was killed.  His body was brought to Fortress Monroe on his gun.  Mr. Winthrop of N. Y. --? Reg. was killed at Bethel.  He wrote "Washington as a Camp" in a recent number of the Atlantic Monthly.  The secessionists fire almost nightly on the guards about Parkersburg.

Map of Battle of Bethel

Major Theodore Wintrhop, killed at Bethel