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.

October 24, 2012

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

October 24.—J. T. Barber of the Thirty-second Alabama Regiment, from Choctaw County, Ala., and Mr. Jones of the Twenty-second Mississippi Regiment, died to-day.

I have little or no time to talk to the men on the subject of death; but they all seem religiously inclined, and ready to cast themselves at the feet of Him who is all-powerful to save. I have not yet met one scoffer.

Mrs. W. is very sick, and as I have the three wards to attend, I have no time to take care of her. Some days I leave her in the morning, and do not see her again till night.

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