The enemy has been reenforced and is on us again. Met Wade
Hampton, who told me my husband was to join him with some volunteer troops; so
I hurried home. Such a cavalcade rode up to luncheon! Captain Smith Lee and
Preston Hampton, the handsomest, the oldest and the youngest of the party. This
was at the Prestons'. Smith Lee walked home with me; alarm-bells ringing;
horsemen galloping; wagons rattling. Dr. H. stopped us to say “Beast” Butler
was on us with sixteen thousand men. How scared the Doctor looked! And, after
all, it was only a notice to the militia to turn out and drill.
SOURCE: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 294
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