We hear today that Echols has had a fight at Lewisburg with
8000 of the enemy, and been badly whipped — lost all his artillery, and many of
his men. Hear too that the Home Guard and cadets are ordered on from Clifton
Forge to Covington, so that the provision that was started last night would not
reach them. All is anxiety. So hurriedly did many go off, that they carried no
blankets, and some went with cotton clothes only. Mr. P. went with a pair of
worn-out summer boots, and without an article of clothing but what he had on;
not even an extra pair of stockings. It is bitterly cold tonight; snowed a
little today; the coldest day of the season as yet. I am tasting some of the
cruel anxieties which war occasions.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and
Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 170
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