For two or three days George has been improving, but he is
still too weak to sit up. His Father, however, considered it safe to leave home
this morning for Jackson's camp, near Mt. Jackson, a day's ride beyond
Staunton. Whether he will return to the service remains to be seen. I do not
conceive that the indications of Providence point him to go, and I have perhaps
gone beyond a wife's privilege in my strenuous use of arguments to
induce him to think so too. Oh! if we might only be permitted to withdraw ourselves
from this turmoil of horrid strife — if it were only to a log cabin on some
mountain side! But I mean to indulge in no moaning in these bald pages; nor to
write down any opinions; merely to essay a very brief record of such facts as
I am personally concerned with, for future reference.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and
Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 137
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