Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 20, page 81 with photograph, June 22, 1862

Regarding dinner and Edward Serrell's anti-abolitionist talk. Transcription: 71 On James Island. Returning to the tent we lay, with its skirts hitched up to allow what air there was in motion to circulate, under canvas, on the hay, dozing and idling away the torrid afternoon. I had a walk and a gossip afterwards with George Edwards, witnessed the evening drill of a Pennsylvannia regiment and heard the chaplain's prayer and sermon, which latter I thought unjustifiably long, addressed to men with muskets on their arms anon with the Colonel and Major to supper. A smoke and debate afterwards on the inevitable subject of abolition which Edward Serrell was opposed to, talking the usual dreary cackle in de- word crossed out fence of slavery. "If it was going to be an abolition was he should resign Etc. and he didn't know but that he should" offer his sword to the other side. Not on this account, but on his general cockyness and, I am afraid, mendacity, Serrell had got himself furiously un- photograph Captain J. M. Rice.

Date

1862

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