Sad, sad tidings were brought to our cottage this morning!
Washington, the youngest and darling son of our dear friend, Mrs. Stuart, has
fallen, The mother and sisters are overwhelmed, while our whole household is
shrouded in sorrow. He was young, brave, and a Christian. He fell while nobly
fighting with his company, the famous Rockbridge Battery, on Marye's Hill. We
have heard no other particulars. The brave boy had scarcely recovered from a
most severe wound received last summer near Winchester. To God we commend his
afflicted, though quietly submissive, mother. He alone can soothe the sorrow
which He has seen fit to permit.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 211
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