Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: March 8, 1862

The family of Captain –––, of the navy, just arrived. They have been “refugeeing in Warrenton; but now that there is danger of our army falling back from the Potomac to the Rappahannock, they must leave Warrenton, and are on their way to Danville. Their sweet home is utterly destroyed; the house burned, etc. Like ourselves, they feel as though their future was very dark.

SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War, p. 100

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