A letter from our son J. to-day; full of pleasant feeling at
finding himself again in the Army of Northern Virginia. He is just established
near General Jackson's head-quarters, as Surgeon of the First Virginia
Battalion; had just breakfasted with Stonewall, and is filled with enthusiastic
admiration for the great Christian soldier and patriot.
The enemy seems to have left Charleston. The Northern
papers, after much circumlocution, prevarication, and boasting of a successful
reconnoissance, acknowledge that they were greatly injured by their last attack
on it. “All quiet on the Rappahannock,” continues to be reported. God grant
that it may continue so!
Yesterday spent in the hospital; some of the men are very
ill. I go back to-morrow.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 208
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