I am so disheartened! I have been listening with the others
to a man who was telling us about Baton Rouge, until I am heartsick. He says
the Yankees have been largely reinforced, and are prepared for another attack
which will probably take place tomorrow; that the fight was a dreadful one, we
driving them in, and losing twelve hundred, to their fifteen hundred. It must
have been awful! And that our troops have resolved to burn the town down, since
they cannot hold it under the fire of the gunboats.
SOURCE: Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl's Diary, p.
157-8
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