January 29, 2013

I was still surprised, and shocked about what I witnessed with Ned head getting cut off. The most shocking thing I saw was when the house was getting burned down. I went down to Dr. Hobart office to talk to him, and to see if he could get me something. Dr. Hobart gave me a huge mug of rum. As I was there we talked about Dan Starr. We talked about how someone had killed him. Mother said the war was making the men go crazy. Some of the men always been crazy, so if they get more crazy just because of the war that will not be a very good thing. It’s hard to believe how many people are getting killed. My father is one of them that have gotten killed. He died from being sick on the ship that they threw him on. If one person got sick it would spread fast. The conditions on the ship are horrible. It was dirty. The only thing that you got for food was slop. Mother said that he was buried somewhere in Long Island, and that we would go down there to get him a grave stone. I miss my brother Sam, but now I have someone else to miss. My father will always be in my family's heart! I will always love my father even though he is gone.