After thirteen months' hard fighting, pouring out of blood
and money, and all alternations from hope to fear, from fear to hope, here we
are back at Bull Run and Manassas Gap again, with the Rebels within twelve
miles of Washington. We hear nothing definitely, only contradictory reports of
attacks, defeats, retreats, repulses, etc., first on one side and then on the
other, but on the whole things look black enough for us. Soon we may expect an
Emancipation Proclamation. (I hope.)
SOURCE: William Rhinelander Stewart, The
Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, p. 32-3
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