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1863-12-18

make others happy for by making others happy I will make myself happy. - - - - We made numerous purchases today, amounting to $95.00.  We saw a good many friends, and spent a pleasant day with them.  In the evening we went to the theater, where we enjoyed ourselves very much.  The theater in the South does not reach the perfection however that it does in in the North, the acters are generally second class, when an acter fails to make an impression in the North he goes South and becomes a star.  The citizens of Memphis are being enrolled for home defense, a great many do not love this since they sympathyse with the rebels, but they are compelled to come right up to the mark.  I think is a very wise plan, the confederacy makes every able bodied man go into the ranks of their army, I think every man in the South who is able to bear arms should be forced to go into one or the other army, then we would have no neutrals and this war would come to a more speedy termination than it will under the present lenient policy.

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make others happy for by making others happy I will make myself happy. - - - - We made numerous purchases today, amounting to $95.00. We saw a good many friends, and spent a pleasant day with them. In the evening we went to the theater, where we enjoyed ourselves very much. The theater in the South does not reach the perfection however that it does in in the North, the acters are generally second class, when an acter fails to make an impression in the North he goes South and becomes a star. The citizens of Memphis are being enrolled for home defense, a great many do not love this since they sympathyse with the rebels, but they are compelled to come right up to the mark. I think is a very wise plan, the confederacy makes every able bodied man go into the ranks of their army, I think every man in the South who is able to bear arms should be forced to go into one or the other army, then we would have no neutrals and this war would come to a more speedy termination than it will under the present lenient policy.