At nine o'clock this night my husband returned home, safe,
having walked twenty miles owing to a break in the canal. . . . He has had a
very pleasant trip; was ten days on the way returning; the difficulty of
travelling is now almost insurmountable. Anna Jackson came on as far as
Greensboro' on her way to Lexington, but was obliged to give up the attempt to
come further. The Government absorbs the railroads for the transportation of
troops and supplies, and no passenger cars are run.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and
Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 181
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