The account of the Drainsville massacre was furnished me by
an officer of the 6th S. C. Regiment, which suffered severely. The newspaper
accounts of the occurrence, upon which, perhaps, the history of this war will
be founded, give a different version of the matter. And hence, although not so
designed at first, this Diary will furnish more authentic data of many of the
events of the war than the grave histories that will be written. Still, I do
not aspire to be the Froissart of these interesting times: but intend merely to
furnish my children, and such others as may read them, with reliable chronicles
of the events passing under my own observation.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 98
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