Her War

Interpreting Women's Lives during the American Civil War

James Gatliff Fanning Diary

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January
No Entry

February
16    Hauled manure
25    Planted potatoes
27    Planted first corn—piece on creek.  Planted pumpkins & watermelons

March
1    Planted beets
2    Planted peas & radishes
8    Planted bush beans & eschalottes
13  Planted pie mel. yesterday.  Planted okra
14  Planted eschalottes, sugar pumpkin, kershaws
30  Lizzie set out tomatoes

April
5     Planted Butter Beans
20   Prepared 3 rows for sweet potatoes
24   Plowed ground for Madame, for corn.  Set out 1 row sweet potatoes
25   Did set out one row sweet potatoes
26   Set one row potatoes
27   Planted in orchard, corn, okra, beans, hoed butter beans

May
5     Josh cut bean poles
6    Hauled & stuck bean poles
7    Still at bean poles
8    Finished sticking bean poles
14  Set out potatoes
15  Set out potatoes—we have now 10 rows
16  Josh hoed corn at creek—self potatoes
17  Thinned & hoed Lizzie’s corn
31  First roasting ear

June
1   Set out 4 rows potatoes
25 Fixed tomatoes P. M.

July
19  Picked tomatoes
23  Set out 7½ rows potatoes

August
26  Went out in rain & got load pumpkins
27  Sowed turnips

September
7   Planted eschalottes

October
No Entry

November
4    Harry began digging potatoes
7    Finished potatoes—40 bushels

December
No Entry