Hon. Robert Barnwell says, “The Mercury's influence began
this opposition to Jeff Davis before he had time to do wrong. They were
offended, not with him so much as with the man who was put into what they
considered Barnwell Rhett's rightful place. The latter had howled nullification
and secession so long that when he found his ideas taken up by all the
Confederate world, he felt he had a vested right to leadership.”
Jordan, Beauregard's aide, still writes to Mr. Chesnut that
the mortality among the raw troops in that camp is fearful. Everybody seems to
be doing all they can. Think of the British sick and wounded away off in the
Crimea. Our people are only a half-day's journey by rail from Richmond. With a
grateful heart I record the fact of reconciliation with the Wigfalls. They
dined at the President's yesterday and the little Wigfall girls stayed all
night.
Seward is fêting
the outsiders, the cousin of the Emperor, Napoleon III., and Russell, of the
omnipotent London Times.
SOURCE: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 104
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