The last day of this month of calamities. Lovell left the
women and children to be shelled, and took the army to a safe place. I do not
understand why we do not send the women and children to the safe place and let
the army stay where the fighting is to be. Armies are to save, not to be saved.
At least, to be saved is not their raison d'être exactly. If this goes-on the spirit of our
people will be broken. One ray of comfort comes from Henry Marshall. “Our Army
of the Peninsula is fine; so good I do not think McClellan will venture to
attack it.” So mote it be.
SOURCE: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 161
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