We are all pursuing the even tenor of our way, as if there
were no war. An order from General Lee is in to-day's paper, exhorting officers
and soldiers to a strict observance of fast-day, which is on Friday. In the
mean time the enemy is storming Charleston with unprecedented fury. It is an
object of peculiar vengeance. Sumter has literally fallen, but it has not
yielded; its battered walls bid defiance to the whole power of the North.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 237
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