I don’t know whether he is sick or spoiled. At any rate, he makes good use of his lungs.#cw150

Tuesday 12^th [August 1862]

I sewed some on Jinnie’s dress. Very warm, needing rain badly. The garden looks as if it would parch up. The cucumber vines are doing but little good & the forward beans & potatoes are out.

Wednesday 13^th [August 1862]

Finished Jinnie’s dress & began that man Sutton a shirt. Will finish it tomorrow. Willie is very cross. I don’t know whether he is sick or spoiled. At any rate, he makes good use of his lungs.

Source: Diary of Cornelia Henry in Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journal and Letters of the Henry Family. Clinard, Karen L. and Russell, Richard, eds. (Asheville, NC: Reminiscing Books, 2008).

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