My family, excepting my son Gustis, started to-day for
Raleigh, N. C., where our youngest daughter is at school. But it is in reality
another flight from the enemy. No one, scarcely, supposes that Richmond will be
defended. Rut it must be!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 123
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