A panic prevails lest the enemy should get to Richmond. Many
persons are leaving town. I can't believe that they will get here, though it
seems to be their end and aim. My mind is much perturbed; we can only go on
doing our duty, as quietly as we can.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 107
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