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1862-05-13 -- 1862-05-15

Tues. 13 [Dec] a good letter from my devoted friend [W.H.H.] Judson of Iowa city. Experienced a strange [mesfraige] Today. I was going to my dinner, and stopped at Dinsmore and Chambers' to buy some tape, when I met [Milo] Emily Ady at the same store looking at tape, the [surprise] was [mentrial], I noticed by her blushing, that she did not expect to see me there at that time. But stranger things than this happen. I learned some person 17 years old from Burlington, who eloped with a married woman 35 years old, who was taken from him by the sheriff of Burlington, fas foolish enough of an account of this forsible seperation of his [dulcina] and himself to commit suicide by taking strychnine. Let young [man] take warning.
Wed. 14 Great battle at Williamsburg, where Gen. Gov. B. [McClellan] whipped the rebels handsomely with little [cafs] on his side. Our army is [winding] itself bloody, like a boa constrictor around the rebels, and will soon crush, the entire brood, to the entire satisfaction of every American citizen. Onward then.
Thurs. 15 Another one of our brave boys, was placed beneath the silent sod of the valley, this one after another of our [fallout inevers] is leaving us for a better world. I studied pretty hard today. Wrote several letters to friends. This warm weather makes me feel sleepy.

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Tues. 13 [Dec] a good letter from my devoted friend [W.H.H.] Judson of Iowa city. Experienced a strange [mesfraige] Today. I was going to my dinner, and stopped at Dinsmore and Chambers' to buy some tape, when I met [Milo] Emily Ady at the same store looking at tape, the [surprise] was [mentrial], I noticed by her blushing, that she did not expect to see me there at that time. But stranger things than this happen. I learned some person 17 years old from Burlington, who eloped with a married woman 35 years old, who was taken from him by the sheriff of Burlington, fas foolish enough of an account of this forsible seperation of his [dulcina] and himself to commit suicide by taking strychnine. Let young [man] take warning. Wed. 14 Great battle at Williamsburg, where Gen. Gov. B. [McClellan] whipped the rebels handsomely with little [cafs] on his side. Our army is [winding] itself bloody, like a boa constrictor around the rebels, and will soon crush, the entire brood, to the entire satisfaction of every American citizen. Onward then. Thurs. 15 Another one of our brave boys, was placed beneath the silent sod of the valley, this one after another of our [fallout inevers] is leaving us for a better world. I studied pretty hard today. Wrote several letters to friends. This warm weather makes me feel sleepy.