Saw in Mrs. Howell's room the little negro Mrs. Davis
rescued yesterday from his brutal negro guardian. The child is an orphan. He
was dressed up in little Joe's clothes and happy as a lord. He was very anxious
to show me his wounds and bruises, but I fled. There are some things in life
too sickening, and cruelty is one of them.
Somebody said: “People who knew General Hood before the war
said there was nothing in him. As for losing his property by the war, some say
he never had any, and that West Point is a pauper's school, after all. He has
only military glory, and that he has gained since the war began.”
“Now,” said Burton Harrison, “only military glory! I like
that! The glory and the fame he has gained during the war — that is Hood. What
was Napoleon before Toulon? Hood has the impassive dignity of an Indian chief.
He has always a little court around him of devoted friends. Wigfall, himself,
has said he could not get within Hood's lines.'”
SOURCE: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 290
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