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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 6114June 1863. The Civil War has been going on for over two years now, with no end in sight. Benjamin H. Ellicott, watching it all from his home in Baltimore, has written an amazing diary of events.1<\/a><\/sup> His skepticism about official reports and his access to both southern and northern newspapers makes him a valuable observer. And it doesn\u201a\u00c4\u00f4t hurt that he was very articulate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why did Ellicott write this diary? Who was he writing for? His detailed and insightful narrative of reports about the war seem to be meant for posterity. No doubt he understood he was living through a remarkable time in American history. He might have been writing the diary for his father-in-law, Elisha Warford, who was living in Hunterdon County, but I suspect this was more for himself, to read over in the future when the war might finally be over. Ellicott would never get that chance.<\/p>\n Wednesday June 3rd 1863<\/u>. A small Shower of rain came over last night which has just varied a little the monotony of the spell of dry weather which has prevailed for so many days in succession, but without much benefit to the suffering vegetation – The Temperature is pleasantly warm.<\/p>\n\n