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.

May 15, 2012

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

May 15.—Heavy firing was heard today, and I felt certain that a battle had commenced. I was in the kitchen when I first heard it, and was compelled to stop what I was doing, as the sound makes me unfit for any thing.

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