Saturday, June 27, 2015

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: November 4, 1862

A letter from my dear S. at Winchester. She says she is wearing herself down in the Confederate service; but there are so many soldiers in the hospitals that she is too much interested to give up nursing them even for a day. Our army still at Bunker's Hill. We are expecting daily to hear that it is falling back. When they leave the Valley all the sick that can be moved will be brought down to the Richmond hospitals, which are now comparatively empty.

SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War, p. 169

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