19 [September]
Yesterday was set apart by the Government as a day of Thanksgiving for our Victories. We went to the Methodist Church and heard a fair sermon by Mr Stacy and a very fine prayer from Whiteford Smith there was a collection taken up for the wounded soldiers I put in $4.—
Gov Wilkins passed through here yesterday and came to see us in the evening. He has been on a visit to his family in Greenville and looks badly. He was on his way down & stopped to see his Mother.—Gov travelled here in Stage from Greenville with an old lady in black she said she had lost her only son in one of the Battles and her daughter being very much attached to her brother died soon after him. Her son in law was in Service and she did not feel much interest in the war she had lost both her children and they could not be restored. The family distress is dreadful.—