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saw Gen Scot this morning The old man seemed to think a bloody battle might be avoided He was moving his forces slowly but surely southward & he thought the people would yield without much loss of life. Mr. [[Cary?]] a young friend of Prof. [[Felton?]] was wounded at the slight affray at Fairfax. It is said quite a number of secessionists were killed in that engagement. The death of Judge Douglass, "the little giant" is no longer to be doubted. I pity his poor young wife. It is said that Gen [[Baldwin?]] has been taken prisoner.

June 4th  Went to Alexandria with Prof [[Felton?]] & Judge Loring's family. The old town seemed deserted by all peace loving citizens, the soldiers alone were to be seen. We visited the house where Col. Ellsworth was shot The bannisters, two of the stairs pieces of the windows & doors have already been carried off [[strikethrough]] to [[strikethrough]] as relics. we brought away a small piece of the flag staff. We were greatly interested in the fortifications. They are still incompleted. They command the three roads from Manassas Gap Richmond & Fairfax Court House the scene of a slight engagement with the secessionists. The Zouaves, the [[underline]] pet lambs [[underline]] as they are called are immediately in the rear of the fortifications Two other regiments are not far off. On our
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return we met in the omnibus the President of Columbia College who had just come from the South. He said Gen. Beauregard was at Manassas Gap & expected an attack from the Northern troops. Prof. Felton? informed Gen. [[Scot?]] of this in the evening.

June 7th   [[F.G?]] came to tell us she [[strikeout]] was ^intended [[strikethrough]] to be married on Sunday next. Visited the Twelfeth Regiment (N.Y.) Their [[parade?]] was very fine. We went to the officers quarters after it was over. saw Col Butterfield [[strikethrough]] & ? [[strikethrough]] Col Ward & others. The former is very handsome with regular features & dark eyes. The little shanties occupied by the men are not as picturesque as tents but are said to be more comfortable.

" 8th      Started to go to the Rhode Island Camp but were prevented by the rain.

  9th      The wedding passed off well. Mr Elderkin returns tomorrow to Alexandria. He expects to be ordered next week to Harper's Ferry.

  11th     The papers are filled with accounts of the engagement at Bethel in Virginia. For more than an hour the United States troops were [[through?]] some [[thunder?]] exposed to the fire of a body of their own men. It is not know exactly how many were killed.

  12th     Went to Mr Calvert's. His daughter is engaged
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