And now comes a grand announcement made by the Yankee
Congress. They vote one million of men to be sent down here to free the
prisoners whom they will not take in exchange. I actually thought they left all
these Yankees here on our hands as part of their plan to starve us out. All
Congressmen under fifty years of age are to leave politics and report for
military duty or be conscripted. What enthusiasm there is in their councils!
Confusion, rather, it seems to me! Mrs. Ould says “the men who frequent her
house are more despondent now than ever since this thing began.”
Our Congress is so demoralized, so confused, so depressed.
They have asked the President, whom they have so hated, so insulted, so crossed
and opposed and thwarted in every way, to speak to them, and advise them what
to do.
SOURCE: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 280-1
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