Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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Kate Cumming: A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee.

June 29, 2013

Kate Cumming: A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee.

June 29.—Another rainy day. We all feel very miserable. It is now 9 o’clock P. M., and the train from the army has not come in; many are afraid it has been captured. This anxiety is enough to kill any one. We do not know the moment that we may hear of a disaster to our army. It is supposed that Rosecrans is trying to outflank it. I do pity General Bragg from my heart. Every body now is against him. He has always had to fight under great disadvantages. He has to confront one of the best generals the Federals have, and at the present time part of his army is in Mississippi. General Morgan has gone on another raiding expedition into Kentucky. I do not like these raids; they do not seem right.

Yesterday a man died, by the name of Murphy, belonging to the Thirty-sixth Alabama Regiment; he was from Jackson County, Mississippi.

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