Richmond, Va., November 20, 1864.
Affairs West are looking so critical now that, before you
receive this, you and I will be in the depths or else triumphant. I confess I
do not sniff success in every passing breeze, but I am so tired, hoping,
fearing, and being disappointed, that I have made up my mind not to be
disconsolate, even though thieves break through and steal. Some people expect
another attack upon Richmond shortly, but I think the avalanche will not slide
until the spring breaks up its winter quarters. I have a blind kind of
prognostics of victory for us, but somehow I am not cheered. The temper of
Congress is less vicious, but more concerted in its hostile action
SOURCES: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 335
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