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.
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Wednesday, June 7th, 1865
To day the train arrived from Houston with the news that the yankee troops had reduced Galveston island into formal possession and were treating the Galvestonians with marked respect. I don't know how long this treatment will last. I am still at Booth's. Weather clear & hot. Ther: 90°.
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