Reached Petersburg
yesterday. The people of Southampton and Sussex showed us every attention in
their power—may they be rewarded for their many acts of kindness done to our
wearied troops. To-day is set apart by our President as a day of "fasting,
humiliation and prayer"—prayer for our struggling Confederacy—prayer for
success. And whilst we are
seated around our
soldiers' home there comes wafted on the soft spring breezes chime notes from
the steeple of St. Paul's, musically swelling forth Jehovah's praise, and
seeming to bid us be of good cheer.
Ah! bells, ring out
glad notes now, ere long you will toll for sons who will come back to you never
again!
SOURCE: William S.
White, A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of It, p. 116
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