Our celebration of this day is more serious than in days
gone by. Our military have no time for dress-parades and barbecues. The
gentlemen could not get home yesterday evening; the trains were all used for
carrying soldiers to the bridge on this railroad just above us, upon which the
Yankees are making demonstrations. The morning papers report that General D. H.
Hill had a skirmish near Timstall's Station on Thursday evening, and repulsed
the enemy. Nothing from our armies in Pennsylvania or Vicksburg.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 226-7
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