Welcome back, dear readers, for more 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 7^th 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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September 1865 was all about home for Parry. At the beginning of the month, he was on his way to Harrisburg. By the 10^th Parry was back with friends and family. After two years of service and traveling across the southeastern United States, it was time for Parry to return to a normal life. He got sick during the month, but that didn’t seem to deter his social activities.

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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Friday, September 1
Spent the night and dined at
the Chrsitian St. Hospital.  then
Called at the Barley Sheaf Hotel
saw J. W. Coverdale[,] John Hay [PARRY?}
and others of Bucks County[.]
Dined at Marion House with
Paxon.
                                Started for Harrisburg
8:30 PM[.] arrived at 1 O’clock
at night.   Stayed at National.

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Thursday, September 7
Settled up with the United
States Pay Master and with the
Seventh Penn’a Cavalry --- bid
adieu to Harrisburg, Pa at [5??] O’clock
and arrived in Phila at 8:30 PM
accompanied by Colonel C. L. [illegible??]
after a tramp around City stayed
at the Barley Sheaf Hotel.

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Sunday, September 10
At Home in Newtown
Spent the Evening at
Esq. Barnsleys. Quite
a number them.  Long time

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Sunday, September 17
Attended Quaker Meeting
Called on Eliza
Buckman
                        Very unwell.

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Saturday, September 23
With Joseph S. Ely attended
Albert Phillips funeral in Doylestown

Called on Houghs[.]   dined at
Cowells.  Called on Gen. B. Wallis???

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Thursday, September 28
To Fallinsgton with
Davis??? Roberts
                                Sent a Letter
to E. B. French 2d {illegible???]
Washington D. C.

Eve at Kinsey Tomlinson

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