Our new Commissary-General is giving us brighter hopes for
Richmond by his energy. Not a stone is left unturned to collect all the
provisions from the country Ministers of the Gospel and others have gone out to
the various county towns and court-houses, to urge the people to send in every
extra bushel of corn or pound of meat for the army. The people only want
enlightening on the subject; it is no want of patriotism which makes them keep
any portion of their provisions. Circulars are sent out to the various civil
and military officers in all disenthralled counties in the State, — which, alas!
when compared with the whole, are very few, — to ask for their superfluities.
All will answer promptly, I know, and generously.
Since I last wrote in my diary, our Essex friends have again
most liberally replenished our larder just as they did this time last year — if
possible, more generously. The Lord reward them!
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 333-4
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