We are more successful in Virginia than elsewhere. The whole
Mississippi River, except Vicksburg and its environs, is now in the hands of
the enemy, and that place must surrender, though it holds out most nobly,
amidst the most inveterate efforts to take it. Memphis has fallen! How my
spirit chafes and grieves over our losses! O God, let us not be given over a “hissing
and a reproach to our enemies.”
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 121
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