Miss Olivia Middleton and Mr. Frederick Blake are to be
married. We Confederates have invented the sit-up-all-night for the wedding
night; Isabella calls it the wake, not the wedding, of the parties married. The
ceremony will be performed early in the evening; the whole company will then
sit up until five o'clock, at which hour the bridal couple take the train for
Combahee. Hope Sherman will not be so inconsiderate as to cut short the
honeymoon.
In tripped Brewster, with his hat on his head, both hands
extended, and his greeting, “Well, here we are!” He was travel-stained,
disheveled, grimy with dirt. The prophet would have to send him many times to
bathe in Jordan before he could be pronounced clean.
Hood will not turn and pursue Sherman. Thomas is at his
heels with forty thousand men, and can have as many more as he wants for the
asking. Between Thomas and Sherman Hood would be crushed. So he was pushing — I
do not remember where or what. I know there was no comfort in anything he said.
Serena's account of money spent: Paper and envelopes,
$12.00; tickets to concert, $10.00; tooth-brush, $10.00; total, $32.00.
SOURCES: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 338
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