Our guard in full force to-day. It is so absurd to see the
great fellows on their horses, armed from head to foot, with their faces turned
towards us, standing at our yard-gate, guarding women and children,
occasionally riding about on the gravel-walks, plucking roses, with which they
decorate their horses' heads. A poor woman came to-day in a buggy, in pursuit
of corn. She had been robbed by the enemy of every grain. This is the case with
many others, particularly with soldiers' wives. I asked an officer to-day, what
had become of General Stuart? He said he was a “smart fellow,” and he “guessed”
he had returned to Richmond, but he “ought to have paid a visit to his
father-in-law, General Cooke, commanding the United States cavalry not many
miles distant.”
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 145
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