Monday, April 11, 2016

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: January 16, 1865

Fort Fisher has fallen; Wilmington will of course follow. This was our last port into which blockade-runners were successful in entering, and which furnished us with an immense amount of stores. What will be the effect of this disaster we know not; we can only hope and pray.

SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War, p. 331

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