June 1, 1863
In school. A great many [citizens have] left. (Paid $25.00 for board.)
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.
June 5, 1863
In school.
June 6, 1863
Went fishing out at Bayou Metre with [Capt.] Syberg. (Paid $2.50 for cars.) About 200 went.
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 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 (and tobacco for $3.00).
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. (Paid $2.00 for cutting hair.)
June 21, 1863
Sunday.
June 22, 1863
Reading. (Paid $12.00 for school furniture and $3.00 for hauling desks.)
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.
Footnotes
The storm Goodrich described on June 4th 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.
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.”
Charles [“Charley”] Adamson, born about 1820, was a son of John Adamson and his first wife Rachel. Charley lived in then Union-occupied Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas with his wife Lucy, (born 1827), and his children Charles (born 1854), Richard (born 1856), and Harriet (born 1858). He was a merchant.
