These stories of our defeats in the valley fall like blows
upon a dead body. Since Atlanta fell I have felt as if all were dead within me
forever. Captain Ogden, of General Chesnut's staff, dined here to-day. Had ever
brigadier, with little or no brigade, so magnificent a staff? The reserves, as
somebody said, have been secured only by robbing the cradle and the grave — the
men too old, the boys too young. Isaac Hayne, Edward Barnwell, Bacon, Ogden,
Richardson, Miles are the picked men of the agreeable world.
SOURCE: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 327
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