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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/goodspeedhist/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114as seen through Benjamin H. Ellicott\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s eyes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n This post provides transcriptions of Benjamin H. Ellicott\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s notes on the Civil War from March to December 1862. (I have kept Ellicott’s spelling, and inserted questions marks for words I can’t read.) For most of this time, Ellicott and his family were living in Locktown, New Jersey. Baltimore was their home, but they left it in 1861 after the attack on Fort Sumter. The family returned to Baltimore on September 24, 1862, and remained there until 1863, when they resettled\u00ac\u2020in Hunterdon County.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In July 1862, Mary Ann Ellicott, daughter of Elisha Warford, suffered from a throat ailment, diagnosed as diphtheria. She was anxious to consult her old Baltimore doctor, since the Hunterdon doctors she saw were not able to provide her with a cure. Perhaps she was also homesick, since she had been living in Baltimore since 1824, when she was 9 years old.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n Ellicott\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s information on the war came from whatever newspapers he could get, usually 3 or 4 a day. But he did not identify what those newspapers were. The news often seemed very favorable to the South.<\/p>\n The first of his war-related notes for 1862 was made on March 24th. Previous to that date, General Grant had captured two forts in Tennessee. And in early March the ironclad \u201a\u00c4\u00faMerrimac\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 sank two Union ships and fought the Union ironclad \u201a\u00c4\u00faMonitor\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 to a stalemate. Also in March, after a long delay, Gen. McClellan\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s Army of the Potomac finally began moving south toward Richmond.<\/p>\n