Marion went back to town. Rev. C. C. Hart went back to Logan, We have had a very pleasant visit with him. He is a native of East Tennessee, was educated at Marietta College and Lane Seminary. He preached for 6 or 7 years in Mississippi but left there six years ago on account of his northern principles. He is a frank and genial man with popular manners and loyal sentiments. Capt. T. W. Moore came on the morning trian direct from Summersville, Va. A good deal of sickness iin camp there. He came to see William about the Tunnel work. After two hours talk William took him home in the buggy. Snowed all the afternoon. Ice floating in the river, the first this winter. I wrote to Clara. William gave me a twenty dollar gold piece, I sealed up the letter and coin in a [unreadable]. G. W. Bailey called. George Cutter went to town to see his twin brother who enlisted in the 77th and is now under orders to go to Camp Dennison.
Peggy's comments:
Julia always enjoys talking with the well-educated visitors who seem to stop by to see her brother William. I like her reference to Rev. Hart's "northern principles" as the reason he left Mississippi.
A good deal of sickness did find it's way into the camps where hundreds of men, many of whom had lived on farms away from disease such as measles, now found themselves sick. Not much was yet known about how disease was transmitted which only made it worse.
The river, of course, is the Ohio.
Clara was Julia's sister who had married a minister and whose family often seemed in need of money.
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