Severe snow-storm. This will retard the attack upon
Fredericksburg, if the enemy designed it. We spent the morning in the parlour.
N. P. read aloud the old-fashioned but amusing novel, "Pride and
Prejudice," in very spirited style. The event of the day was the arrival
from Alexandria of a bundle, filled with useful articles for a lady, who, not
wanting them all herself, allowed us to help ourselves at the price which they
cost her in Alexandria. It was amusing to see with what avidity the girls
seized on a calico dress at only seventy-five cents per yard (Confederate
money); every thing was in such demand, that I only got a tooth-brush, at one
dollar; they are two dollars and fifty cents in Richmond.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern Refugee,
During the War, p. 201
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