Mecklenburg County.
— Mr. —— and myself summoned here a short time ago to see our daughter, who was
very ill. Found her better — she is still improving.
Richmond is disenthralled — the only Yankees there are in
the “Libby” and other prisons. McClellan and his "Grand Army," on
James River, near Westover, enjoying mosquitoes and bilious fevers. The weather
is excessively hot. I dare say the Yankees find the “Sunny South” all that
their most fervid imaginations ever depicted it, particularly on the marshes.
So may it be, until the whole army melts with fervent heat. The gun-boats are
rushing up and down the river, shelling the trees on the banks, afraid to approach
Drury's Bluff. The Northern papers and Congress are making every effort to find
out to whom the fault of their late reverses is to be traced. Our people think
that their whole army might have been captured but for the dilatoriness of some
of our generals. General Magruder is relieved, and sent to take command in the
West.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 126-7
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