Thursday, January 8, 1863

Singing School to continue all this week.  Mrs. Loring Cole & Sarah called.  Cold -- Snowing -- Kate & I went to circle at William Scott’s.  Lieut. Timothy Condit, a graduate of Marietta College, a talented & worthy young man, was killed at Murphiesboro,  Tenn. His body expected home today.  A very sad case -- His mother a widow, & mainly dependent on him is lying very low w Typhoid fever also his sister --  Julia Greenwood, sister of the late Capt. T. E. Greenwood, is reported to have gone deranged from trouble & the excitement attending a protractive Methodist meeting.

Timothy Condit