Hello everyone! We are happy to present another post of transcriptions from the George F. Parry Civil War diaries (George F. Parry family volumes, Collection 3694). If you're just joining us, in 2012 HSP acquired the diaries of Bucks County resident and Civil War veterinary surgeon George F. Parry. In that collection are three diaries he kept during the Civil War dating from 1863 to 1865, when he served with the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry. In celebration of Parry's work and the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, I'm providing monthly posts on Fondly, PA of transcripts of entries from his diaries.
To see other posts in the series, check out the links over on the right-hand side of this page. Clicking on the diary images will take you to our Digital Library where you can examine the volumes page by page, along with other digitized items from the Parry collection.
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By the time October 1865 hit, George F. Parry was back into the swing of regular life. He visited friends and family and traveled around the area being generally social. However, he also complained about the dullness of his hometown. No doubt, after being at war for nearly two years, civilian life probably would have seemed very boring at times. But Parry appeared to make the best of things.
Notes about the transcriptions: I've kept the pattern of Parry's writings as close as formatting here will allow, including his line breaks and spacing. My own additional or clarifying notes will be in brackets [ ]. Any grammatical hiccups that aren’t noted as such are Parry's own.
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Wednesday, October 4
Cold – Many Attending
Doylestown Exhibition
Sick at 12PM
Excessive tired of Newtown
Dull – nothing doing
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Tuesday, October 10
Election Day passed
off very quietly
Voted
Union ---
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Monday, October 16
In Philadelphia[,] saw
the Fireman’s Parade
Attended Theatre [and] Saw
Kate Fisher play
Mazeppa and French
Spy.
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Monday, October 23
At Jacob Cadwallader’s with
Anna after dinner[,] rode up to
Doylestown after her Piano[.] Called
on Houghs and came back
by Unckle[sic] Georges – stayed(?) the
Evening[,] called over at Aunt
and had a very good time.
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Friday, October 27
Ben Hough in Newtown
Dr. Trego fixed up my Teath.
Bid good by to Benj. Hough
At Grooms Hotel.
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