Sorrow

A glimpse inside Rachel's diary, a typical book of the time. I've taken the picture from Rosemary Young's book.

Rachel, Sept. 1, 1864: "This has been an eventful year with all the world and with myself and family. I opened school in a new barn on the Allen Robinson farm on the first Monday in April (and closed August 16, 1864). Lost but 2 days and that not for sickness - had two letters from home. In the first I learned that my youngest brother, John King, was killed in battle on the 17th of Sept. 1862, and in the last I learned that my dear father died in Maruy Co. Tenn on the 10th of July 1864. Hundreds of battles have been faught in our divided country - citizens killed and robbed, houses burned and people driven from their homes and God alone knows how or when our troubles will end."

Rachel fortel i dagboka si om at ho har starta skule, og at ho har mista både bror sin og far sin. Knapp dagbok-stil, her er ikkje mykje utanomsnikksnakk...Som vanleg viser ho til Gud, som åleine veit korleis dette elendet skal ende...