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On James Island.
Returning to the tent we lay, with its skirts
hitched up to allow what air there was in mo-
tion to circulate, under canvas, on the hay,
dozing and idling away the torrid afternoon.
I had a walk and a gossip afterwards with
George Ed-
wards, wit-
nessed the
evening drill
of a Penn-
sylvannia regi-
ment and
heard the
chaplain s
prayer and
sermon, which
latter I thought
unjustifiably
long, addres-
sed to men
with muskets
[photograph]
Captain J. M. Rice.
on their arms
anon with
the Colonel
and Major
to supper.
A smoke and
debate after-
wards on the
inevitable sub-
ject of aboli-
tion which
Serrell was
opposed to,
talking the
usual dreary
cackle in de-
[word crossed out] fence of slavery. If it was going to be an
abolition was he should resign Etc. and he
didn t know but that he should offer his sword
to the other side. Not on this account, but on
his general cockyness and, I am afraid, men-
dacity, Serrell had got himself furiously un-| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty: page eighty-one |
| Description: | Regarding dinner and Serrell's anti-abolitionist talk. |
| Date: | 1862-06-22 |
| Subject: | Abolition; Civil War; Edwards, George, Jr.; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Military; Rice, J.M.; Serrell, Edward W.; Slavery |
| Coverage (City/State): | [South Carolina] |
| Scan Date: | 2010-09-10 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty |
| Description: | Includes Gunn's descriptions of his experiences as a war correspondent for ""The New York Tribune"" at Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, especially Hilton Head, Port Royal, St. Augustine, Key West, and the end of his experiences with the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsular Campaign when he had to leave camp due to illness. |
| Subject: | African Americans; Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Civil War; Diseases; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Marches (U.S. Army); Medical care (U.S. Army); Military; Military camp life; Peninsular Campaign (Va.); Travel; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York; Port Royal, South Carolina; Hilton Head, South Carolina; Key West, Florida; St. Augustine, Florida; Virginia |
| Note: | Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent. |
| Publisher: | Missouri History Museum |
| Rights: | Copyright 2010 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
