Diaries and Letters of Belle Edmondson
    

Diary of Belle Edmondson

September, Saturday 17, 1864

Another cool day, spent very idly by all, playing cards most of the day—this evening Mary Lou, Mrs. James Young and I went in the Pond alone, Lou sitting on the bank looking on. Both my friends had gone out, I alone in, when a Company of Soldiers passed. I am sorry to say our Confederate Soldiers would so far forget themselves as to notice a Ladie in bathing, but more so to say those stoped and made several remarks loud enough to be heard. I was not uneasy, knowing the Officers would keep them straight.

Lou and I are going to take a dose of Medicine, as we are very much in Job’s fix—

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