We hear much of the danger of the army being starved Out of
Virginia. Mr. P. has let the Government have every pound of bacon he can spare,
after putting his family on short allowance. The town is crowded with refugees;
heard of four families today; one is a mother with eight children, one of them
twenty months old, and one four weeks; they had to fly from their homes. Such
distresses as we do hear of continually; it is a wonder we dare to feel any
thing like happiness. Oh! when will the war cease!
SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and
Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 161
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