Several of our friends from Alexandria have passed to-day.
Many families who attempted to stay at home are escaping as best they may,
finding that the liberty of the hoary-headed fathers of patriotic sons is at
stake, and others are in peril for opinion's sake. It is too provoking to think
of such men as Dr. ____ and Dr. ____ being obliged to hide themselves in their
houses, until their wives, by address and strategy, obtain passes to get them
out of town! Now they go with large and helpless families, they know not
whither. Many have passed whom I did not know. What is to become of us all?
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 22-3
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