Thus closes my notes for the month of December and also for the year just passed and gone and now numbered with the things that were. Whether the Almighty will spare me to chronicle the daily events of the incoming year is more than I know but trusting in Him I shall enter upon the pleasing task, which is useful as a reference and may be profitable to those who have an interest in me.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Friday, December 20th, 1861
To day the steamer Ruthven arrived from Galveston & also departed. she brought but little freight. I am still engaged in tacking up canvass on the new house. weather cloudy with a hard rain nearly all night & very warm.
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December 20. -- At 11 a.m. Mary Hill arrived from Pelican Spit, and returned at 6 p.m. with soldiers stationed at the spit. At 6 p.m. the lookout signaled a war vessel under sail in the offing. Steamer Neptune went in the channel at 8:30. At 10:30 p.m. a false alarm was given on the spit; the lookout imagined he saw boats coming in from sea. . . . Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 17. Page: 171
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