Went out to sell some of my colored dresses. What a scene it
was — such piles of rubbish, and mixed up with it, such splendid Parisian silks
and satins. A mulatto woman kept the shop under a roof in an out-of-the-way old
house. The ci-devant rich white women sell to, and the negroes buy of,
this woman.
After some whispering among us Buck said: “Sally is going to
marry a man who has lost an arm, and she is proud of it. The cause glorifies
such wounds.” Annie said meekly, “I fear it will be my fate to marry one who
has lost his head.” “Tudy has her eyes on one who has lost an eye. What a
glorious assortment of noble martyrs and heroes!” “The bitterness of this kind
of talk is appalling.”
General Lee had tears in his eyes when he spoke of his
daughter-in-law just dead—that lovely little Charlotte Wickham, Mrs. Roony Lee.
Roony Lee says “Beast” Butler was very kind to him while he was a prisoner. The
“Beast” has sent him back his war-horse. The Lees are men enough to speak the
truth of friend or enemy, fearing not the consequences.
SOURCE: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 300
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