This morning as we sat at breakfast, we got news that Mr. P.
was coming, and oh! with what joy we soon received him! Thank God for his
deliverance! Two days ago I thought it a very possible thing that we might
never meet in this world, and now he is here safe. Surely our prayers have been
heard, and we have been blessed beyond all we dared to hope.
Our spirits begin to rise already, and we cease to feel
subjugated, as we surely did two days ago. I thought the cause of the
Confederacy was finished for the present, or at least that it was a hopeless
struggle. I feel differently now. As to losses, Mr. P. says that $30,000 would
scarcely cover what he has lost by this invasion. He is a poor man now for the
rest of his days, he says; but he bears it with a brave and Christian spirit,
and utters no complaint.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and
Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 197
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