James Merrill Linn Diary: 1861-1862 James Merrill Linn Diane K. Jakacki Bucknell University Professor, Lead Investigator Junior Alejandro Bucknell University Encoding editor Matteo Antenucci Bucknell University Encoding editor NinaArsov Bucknell University Encoding editor Caroline Colucci Bucknell University Encoding editor Drew Fisher Bucknell University Encoding editor Olivia Garcia Bucknell University Encoding editor Harvey Harvison Bucknell University Encoding editor Reilly Hope Bucknell University Encoding editor Matti Kruger Bucknell University Encoding editor Selena Liu Bucknell University Encoding editor Gayda Makki Bucknell University Encoding editor Ben Maya Bucknell University Encoding editor Calvin McGuire Bucknell University Encoding editor Natalie Monroe Bucknell University Encoding editor Luke Nowicki Bucknell University Encoding editor Ori Raz Bucknell University Encoding editor Grayson Renkert Bucknell University Encoding editor Amadou Samb Bucknell University Encoding editor Ben Samuels Bucknell University Encoding editor Rose Schmidt Bucknell University Encoding editor Nyah von Haam Bucknell University Encoding editor Bucknell University
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Monday 26.

It has been a succession of rainy days. We have a nice cozy time indoors, but cant help thinking of McClellan’s army: it must be dreadful in that low swampy country. Lt Beaver and I strolled around town after morning drill. We saw two of Em French’s whores & several from the crow-nest. Shorkley’s & my visit to those celebrated places is unrecorded, but not unremembered. I never had such fun as the crow-nest afforded. There are three ladies that live down in a house with a porch in front that Beaver and I take occasion to pass every day - they are the only ladies we have seen in town. On Saturday, we met a Pollock from Reading, cousin of John’s wife - a corporal in one of the 4 companies of the 48th, which had been left at Hatteras, and came on here the other day. I met him in Philadelphia when Morris & I were there, and little dreamed of meeting him here. I might have seen him at Hatteras had I taken the trouble to go to Merifield but I did not know he was there.