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May 18th     1867
The latter is already built up to a great extent with large handsome stores.  Richmond is a very pretty city.
19th  Sunday  Went to church & heard an excellent sermon.  The gentlemen have gone to a negro chapel this afternoon.  We ladies wished to go but it was not considered advisable as the negroes are in a very excited state just now.  Not having obtained the freedom from labor and the great riches they expected with their emancipation they are ready to visit their disappointment upon the Northerners and Southerners alike.  Saw the statue of Henry Clay in the Capitol grounds as we came home from church this morning one of the fingers had been shot off by our soldiers.  Church again in the evening.
20th  Went on a walking excursion around the city.  The party photographed for Mr. Guthrie's benefit.  Went in the
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[[underlined]] May   1867
afternoon to visit the oldest church in the place on the burial ground surrounding it were surprised to see upon ^[[one]] tomb stone 331 years as the age of the occupant of the grave.  Father on we discovered an inscription to a deceased individual of still greater age.  We began to think Richmond people must have inherited the constitutions of the patriarchs when the mystery was solved by the discovery of the unfinished work of some rascal who had been interrupted in his sacraligious employment of inserting a number into a monumental inscription.  So neatly had he worked in the first two cases it was almost impossible to tell wh. were the original figures.
21st  Went to the cemetery and to Island where our prisoners were confined.
22.  A delightful day in Petersburg.  I should rather say a deeply interesting one as it was not with unmingled pleasure that we viewed the spots where so many of our
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