No letters from my wife. Probably she has taken the children
to the Eastern Shore. Her farm is there, and she has many friends in the
county. On that narrow peninsula it is hardly to be supposed the Yankees will
send any troops. With the broad Atlantic on one side and the Chesapeake Bay on
the other, it is to be presumed there will be no military demonstration by the
inhabitants, for they could neither escape nor receive reinforcements from the
mainland. In the war of the first Revolution, and the subsequent one with Great
Britain, this peninsula escaped the ravages of the enemy? although the people
were as loyal to the government of the United States as any; but the Yankees
are more enterprising than the British, and may have an eye to “truck farms” in
that fruitful region.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 31
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