Mrs. Lyon’s Diary.
Jan. 1, 1864.—The weather is very cold. It is ten degrees below zero, the coldest weather ever known in Nashville, so the citizens say. Captain and Mrs. Hewitt and William and I received calls together. We had calls from General Ward[1] and his staff officers, and all the officers of the 13th. In the evening we had all the ladies in our regiment to spend the evening and to help dispose of the eatables that were left over. The band serenaded us.
[1] Major-General Waril was a distinguished Kentuckian, for many years a member of Congress from that State before the war. He was a grand old man and I loved him. One of his staff was Colonel Benjamin Harrison, afterward President. Colonel Harrison was Colonel of an Indiana regiment in our brigade.—W. P. L.
