A letter from –––. She tells me that W. B. N. and E. C. both
passed through the fierce fight at Kelly's Ford uninjured. How can we be
grateful enough for all our mercies? Letters also from B., by underground
railroad. That sweet child and her whole family surrounded and roughly treated
by the Yankees; and so it will be as long as Millroy is allowed to be the
scourge of the Valley.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 202
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