The Diaries of Ralph Leland Goodrich, 1859-1867
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June
1, 1863
In
school. Great many [have] left [my school].
June
2, 1863
In
school. Burgeoin sent back bill & wrote “Query. Tuition of what? I send
the amount. Receipt it.”
June
3, 1863
In
school. The Missis D______ called to see if I was going to throw up my school.
Called on Mrs. Adams.
June
4, 1863
In
school. Hurricane and storm today. [1]
June
5, 1863
In
school.
June
6, 1863
Went
fishing out at Bayou Metre with [Capt.] Syberg. About 200 went. [2]
June
7, 1863
Sunday.
June
8, 1863
In
school.
June
9, 1863
In
school.
June
10, 1863
In
school. Reading The Fair Maid of Perth
and Anne of Guerstein.
June
11, 1863
In
school. Charley Adamson [3]
from Helena came. Sophie [Adamson]
went into the country.
June
12, 1863
In
school.
June
13, 1863
Saturday.
Bought two yards of linen for 24 dollars.
June
14, 1863
Sunday.
Reading Woodstock.
June
15, 1863
In
school.
June
16, 1863
In
school.
June
17, 1863
In
school.
June
18, 1863
In
school.
June
19, 1863
Closed
school today.
June
20, 1863
Saturday.
Reading.
June
21, 1863
Sunday.
June
22, 1863
Reading.
June
23, 1863
Tuesday.
Reading. Down the street.
June
24, 1863
Rainy.
Reading.
June
25, 1863
Reading.
Rainy.
June
26, 1863
Reading.
June
27, 1863
Reading.
June
28, 1863
At
church.
June
29, 1863
Monday.
June
30, 1863
Reading.
[1]
The storm must not have been too bad. Annie Eliza Cowgill, a young female
living in Little Rock
who was a student of Mr. Graves (mentioned occasionally by Ralph Goodrich),
described the storm in her diary by writing simply, “It rained very hard
today.” Source: Special Collections, University
of Arkansas
Libraries.
[2]
Annie E. Cowgill, mentioned in the previous footnote, wrote in her diary
that she was among the great many” of Little Rock
civilians who ventured out to the “Bayou Metre bridge” east of town. She
went with others at six in the morning, enjoyed a picnic, and went “over
to the prairie to gather dew berries”; they did not return home until after six p.m. after “a
pleasant day.”
[3]
Charles
[“Charley”] Adamson, born about 1820, was a son of John Adamson
and his first wife Rachel. Charley lived in then Union-occupied
The Ralph Goodrich Collection is the property of the Arkansas
History Commission.