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July 30th and August 1864.
with Mrs. Benny Pott, Edward went up for them & got home by dusk.
Wormcassel dug out the big spring this morning & begun to wall it up about 5 feet square within the wall there 5 or 5 streams of water, the largest appears to be in the S E corner and quite cold.
This afternoon we had a little shower which lasted but a short time only to settle the dust.
[[left margin note]] hot. [[/margin note]] 65° calm, clear.  93° s w, clo 2.  79° calm, clear.
[[underlined]] Sunday 31st.[[/underlined]]  Mrs. Peale is better having had a good night & slept until halfpast 5.
James & Matilda Patterson brought Mr. Edmons music teacher from Orwigsburg this afternoon.
Telegraph news is that the Rebels have burnt Chambersburg and W
[[left margin note]] hot. [[/margin note]] 68° calm & dence fog, clear above.  96° s w, clo 3 n w heavey clouds arose from the n w passed over the river as yesterday.
78° calm nearly clear, lightning to the south.
[[double underlined]] Monday August 1st 1864.[[/underlined]]  Mrs. Peale is much the same as yesterday, had a good night & this morning pain in her right side & applied a mustard plaster to it.
I painted nearly all day on N. 102 and 103.
Mary begun a coppey of R.'s Washington for Joseph Patter
The Rebels burnt over 160 houses in the City of Chambersburg on
[[left margin note]] hot. [[/margin note]] 68° calm se fog, clo 2 s e.  96° s w clo 5. clouded up from the west a smart shower about 7 with thunder & lightning  77° calm e. lightning to the east.
[[underlined]] Tuesday 2.[[/underlined]]  Mrs. Peale has had a bad night, kept Mary up all night, she has suffered all day with pain in her side & bowells she is rather easier this evening.
I have been with her the most of the day, mgnetising and driving away the flies &c.
Edward took Geo and I to the Pools this afternoon to give our Votes for the Soldiers to vote in Camp.
72° calm w clo 8 w.  85°. calm s w clo 5 s w.  & son gave a shower and commenced to rain at sunset.  76° calm e rain.
[[underlined]] Wednesday 3.[[/underlined]]  Mrs. Peale has not been so well today although she had a good night, she was taken suddenly this afternoon with great pain in her side.
Mrs. Hubley, Julia, Clarra, and myself had a siege of rubbing &c until this evening before she got relief.
Mary painted on her Washington & a bunch of Grapes that

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So sweet, that Peale tends his wife, down to making sure she is not bothered by flies when she sleeps.